Transport Manager

Wolseley; Hilcote; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trade merchant in the UK is seeking a Transport Manager in Chesterfield. Your responsibilities will include managing a team, liaising with third-party hauliers, and ensuring compliance with customer SLAs. The ideal candidate will have experience with fleet management and planning systems. This full-time role offers a competitive salary, bonuses, and excellent benefits, including a generous pension scheme and access to healthcare services.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus

Pension scheme

Maternity/adoption leave

Healthcare access

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a team of transport planners and drivers.
• Ability to maintain and develop customer service level agreements.
• Strong understanding of managing a multi-site fleet.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 7 transport planners and drivers.
• Maintain and develop customer SLAs.
• Review and improve the transport site.
• Liaise with third-party hauliers.
• Run reports on Microsoft Excel.

Skills

Team management

Customer SLA maintenance

Transport site improvement

Relationship development

Fleet management

Continuous improvement

Planning systems

Microsoft Excel

Tools

Master Naut

iStan

Job description

As a Transport Manager based in Chesterfield you'll be responsible for:

Responsibilities

• Managing a team of 7 transport planners and drivers, conducting reviews and 1:1s
• Helping to maintain and develop customer SLAs, working closely with the warehouse to ensure all dispatches and loads are accurate and correct
• Reviewing and improving the transport site
• Liaising with third party hauliers on a regular basis, developing and maintaining strong relationships with them
• Working internally across multiple teams within the business. A manager's CPC is essential so you can run your own fleet of vehicles
• Proven experience running a multi-site fleet and managing third party contract haulage
• Continuous improvement in developing and increasing internal transport usage
• Experience using planning systems such as Master Naut and iStan
• A strong understanding of Microsoft packages including Microsoft Excel. You will be expected to run reports on Microsoft Excel

Benefits

Competitive Salary + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

Annual leave (increasing with length of service), a generous pension scheme (matched up to 9%), potential to earn bonuses, enhanced maternity / adoption leave and access to a great range of online and high street discounts. We also promote positive health and wellbeing by offering free access to healthcare, our popular YuLife app, our Cycle to Work scheme and more!

About the Company

Transport Manager - Chesterfield - Fusion Utilities. So, who are we? We are Fusion Utilities, a part of the Wolseley Group - a leading specialist trade merchant across the UK and Ireland. We pride ourselves in putting our people and customers at the heart of everything we do - and best of all, provide opportunities to develop skills and build careers through our award‑winning Wolseley Talent Guild. This is a full‑time, permanent role working 40 hours per week Monday to Friday between the hours of 6.00am - 8.00pm, no weekend working!