Transport Operations Manager — Lead 24/7 Logistics Team

Culina Group; Sutton Coldfield; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Bonus

Private Medical Cover

Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme

Wellbeing Support

Eye Care Vouchers

Reward & Recognition

Everyday Discounts

Job summary

Culina is the UK’s leading independent specialist supply chain partner, trusted by national brands. We’re excited to hire a Transport Operations Manager to oversee 24/7 transport operations, manage a team, and deliver cost-controlled, high-quality service within budget and forecast expectations.

Join a supportive team environment in Contract Logistics, with daily supervision responsibilities, staff development, and a focus on continuous improvement to drive value for customers.

Qualifications

• Planning and organising skills with a high level of numeracy.
• Previous supervisory experience within a FMCG environment.
• Excellent negotiating skills with the ability to influence and steer.
• Leadership and motivational qualities and proven experience of building a team.
• An effective communicator at all levels, good verbal and written skills.
• Personal motivation and confidence resulting in a positive impact.
• Highly tolerant of change – able to work within an evolving organisation.
• Ability to challenge the status quo and drive changes in the business.
• Able to thrive in a highly competitive and demanding environment.
• Good commercial knowledge of transport operations, consumer orientated and customer service driven.
• Problem solving in a pressurised environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage your team to ensure they execute traffic plans to enable delivery of products to customers within agreed service levels.
• Reduce non-contract maintenance and damage spends through the use of vehicle passports and daily confirmation of spend.
• Ensure that all available fleet is on the road and declared to enable the planning team to plan the resource.
• Motivate and develop the transport team and ensure that they comply with all relevant statutes and regulations.
• Communicate with third party hauliers in regards to control all reported defects on drop trailers left for pre-loading.
• Check and approve maintenance cost reports and related invoices.
• Ensure daily, weekly and monthly compliance milestones are achieved, measured by internal audit scoring.
• Attend daily, weekly and monthly customer review meetings.
• Monitor, audit and control suppliers.
• Support implementation of service improvements in conjunction with customers and other areas of the business.
• Generate and implement ideas with regards to staff and operational changes, which will help drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Planning and organising

Supervisory experience

Negotiation skills

Leadership and motivation

Effective communication

Self-motivation and confidence

Change tolerance

Challenge the status quo

Thriving in a competitive environment

Commercial knowledge of transport ops

Problem solving under pressure

Job description

Culina is the UK’s leading independent specialist supply chain partner, trusted by national brands. We’re excited to hire a Transport Operations Manager to oversee 24/7 transport operations, manage a team, and deliver cost-controlled, high-quality service within budget and forecast expectations.

Join a supportive team environment in Contract Logistics, with daily supervision responsibilities, staff development, and a focus on continuous improvement to drive value for customers.