Transport Manager

Bidcorp; Slough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Bidfood in Slough is recruiting a Transport Manager to lead the transport operation, driving compliance, safety, and efficiency across a large HGV fleet. You will coach drivers and managers, oversee maintenance and incident responses, and ensure adherence to all regulatory requirements and service levels.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive knowledge of transport legislation, and proven experience in a distribution environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading transport teams and senior transport leadership roles.
• Solid knowledge of transport legislation and compliance requirements.
• Experience managing large HGV fleets including maintenance planning and repairs.
• Strong leadership and people management skills; able to drive safety culture.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with transport legislation including Operator Licence, Driver Hours Regulations, and Working Time Directive.
• Develop and coach a team of drivers, transport managers and administrative staff.
• Foster health, safety, and compliance culture across the department.
• Investigate incidents, manage corrective actions, ensure robust processes.
• Manage a large HGV fleet for maximum availability and maintenance scheduling.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

People management

Fleet operations

Analytical thinking

Education

CPC qualification (National or International)

Job description

Location: Bidfood Slough

Contract: Full-Time, Permanent

Competitive Salary + Benefits

Transport Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure full compliance with all transport legislation, including Operator Licence requirements, Driver Hours Regulations, and Working Time Directive.
• Develop and coach a team of drivers, transport team managers and administrative colleagues.
• Drive a strong health, safety, and compliance culture throughout the department.
• Investigate incidents, manage corrective actions, and ensure robust compliance processes are maintained.
• Manage a large fleet of HGV vehicles, ensuring maximum fleet availability, compliance and maintenance scheduling.

Essential Requirements

• Previous experience in a Transport Manager or senior transport leadership role.
• National or International CPC qualification.
• Proven experience managing a large HGV fleet, including maintenance planning, defect management, and coordinating vehicle repairs with external garages and service providers to maximise fleet availability, safety, and compliance.
• Strong knowledge of transport legislation and compliance requirements.
• Experience managing large driver teams within a distribution or logistics environment.
• Excellent leadership and people management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

Bidfood are a leading wholesale food distributor covering the whole of the UK. We pride ourselves on our close relationships with local suppliers and our ability to offer the best products to our customers. Our flexible infrastructure ensures that we are able to supply the entire Bidfood product range as a “one stop shop” to our customer base throughout the UK whilst striving for and maintaining a positive and inclusive culture.

Leading the Transport operation you’ll celebrate our vision, mission and values through your demonstrated leadership, direction and technical expertise. You’ll achieve best in class results with your team via a combination of experience, enthusiasm and determination but most importantly, through creating and supporting a motivational and engaging culture.

We continually strive to be more efficient whilst delivering the highest levels of service excellence to our customers and colleagues. As an expert on legal compliance and company standards your passion will be to coach, support and develop your team to achieve department and service level results. You’ll get professional fulfilment through effective planning, overseeing and coaching the Transport Leadership team whilst supporting your colleagues to achieve their personal development goals.

Whilst our Drivers are our caring for our customers the Transport Leadership Team will be caring for them. Having the ability to clearly identify and prioritise workloads is essential ensuring that all tasks are completed safety and to standard within the required SLA timescales and budget.

Flexibility is crucial to achieve success with the ability and willingness to adapt working hours when required. Though the majority of your shifts will be Monday to Friday there will be a requirement for occasional weekend working.

Join today and be part of our Transport team who are making history, helping to rebuild the nation and the hospitality sector.