Transport First Line Manager

GXO Logistics, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days leave

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Retail discounts

Job summary

GXO Logistics, Inc. in Greenford seeks a Transport First Line Manager to oversee safe, compliant and efficient transport operations for Waitrose, delivering customer service and performance targets while engaging colleagues.

This is a permanent role on a rotating 5 from 7 shift pattern (04:00-14:00, 09:30-17:30, 15:00-23:00) with a salary up to £40,268 per year and 33 days of annual leave, plus pension and life assurance benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience managing teams in a fast paced transport, logistics, distribution or home delivery operation.
• Strong understanding of workforce planning and resource allocation.
• Excellent transport knowledge of current EU and working time regulations.

Responsibilities

• Manage and prioritise multiple operational activities, ensuring risks are identified, controlled and escalated appropriately.
• Monitor operational performance throughout the day, taking proactive action to minimise the impact of service, compliance or resource-related tasks.
• Lead operational communications, ensuring colleagues are informed, engaged and aligned to business priorities and performance expectations.
• Support workforce planning and resource management activities to ensure appropriate levels of operational cover is maintained.

Skills

Team management

Workforce planning

Regulatory knowledge

Job description

Are you a Transport professional looking for that next step? Do you have experience managing a fleet of 3.5T vehicles? Are you ready for that next challenge?
Here at GXO, we are currently recruiting for a Transport First Line Manager to join our team in Greenford, supporting our customer Waitrose. As a Transport First Line Manager, you will be responsible for the safe, compliant and efficient delivery of transport operations, ensuring customer service, operational performance and colleague engagement targets are achieved for our customer. This is a full time, permanent position, working an any 5 from 7 rotating shift pattern of 04:00 till 14:00, 09:30 till 17:30 and 15:00 till 23:00.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £40,268.00 per annum, and 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Manage and prioritise multiple operational activities simultaneously, ensuring risks are identified, controlled and escalated appropriately
• Monitor operational performance throughout the day, taking proactive action to minimise the impact of service, compliance or resource-related tasks
• Lead operational communications, ensuring all colleagues are informed, engaged and aligned to business priorities and performance expectations
• Support workforce planning and resource management activities to ensure appropriate levels of operational cover is maintained

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Experience managing teams within a fast paced transport, logistics, distribution or home delivery operation
• Strong understanding of workforce planning and resource allocation
• Excellent transport knowledge of current EU and working time regulations

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.