Transport General Manager

GXO; St Helens; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading supply chain solutions provider based in St Helens, England, seeks a Transport General Manager. In this full-time, permanent role, you'll oversee transport operations, ensuring compliance and performance. Responsibilities include managing customer relationships, driving operational success, and maintaining safety standards. Ideal candidates will have an International CPC, IOSH Managing Safely, and strong team leadership skills. The position offers up to £75,000 per annum along with comprehensive benefits including a company car, pension scheme, and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Company car or allowance

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Employee assistance programme

High street discounts

Qualifications

• Strong experience of managing customer relationships preferably in a 3PL environment.
• Food retail background advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily operational issues and drive resolutions for transport operations.
• Drive success of the operation through team engagement.
• Ensure compliance with GXO audits and accident management.

Skills

Managing customer relationships

Accident management

Leadership

Trade Union experience

Education

International Managers CPC

IOSH Managing Safely

Job description

Ready for a new year, new challenge? Want to join a great team? Would like an opportunity to use you expertise?

Here at GXO, we have a great opportunity for you to join us as the Transport General Manager for our Coop contract based at Lea Green, WA9. You’ll be accountable for the safety, legal compliance, operator licencing and efficient execution of transport plans, ensuring customer SLA's/KPI's are delivered. In this position you will lead the Transport Team to ensure a best in class service is delivered for our customer, together with the performance and motivation of the team through regular performance dialogues, objective setting along with scheduled quarterly 1-2-1's with all your direct reports, plus lead the communication and engagement on site.

This role is offered on a full time, permanent basis, working Monday to Friday, 08:00 till 16:00, however, this is logistics and we ask for some flexibility!

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £75,000.00 per annum, and 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) plus a bonus scheme. Your benefits package includes a company car or car allowance of £595.00 pcm, a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Managing daily operational issues and driving resolution for transport operations
• Managing customer relationships and expectations, including meetings, regular reporting and maintaining service levels and KPI’s, together with achievement of Bonus Malus targets
• Drive the success of the operation through your team
• Accident management - Ensure all information are provided by managers, all accidents on fastworks, investigation completed. Driving down accident rates to the GXO KPI levels on the contract
• Hold the CPC and O license responsibility for site, ensuring management to be compliant in GXO audits.
• Provide leadership and guidance for the transport team

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• International Managers CPC
• IOSH Managing Safely
• Strong experience of managing customer relationships preferably in a 3PL environment
• Food retail background advantageous
• Trade Union experience is essential

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.