Transport Planner

DHL Supply Chain; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading supply chain management company in Daventry is seeking an experienced Transport Planner. This role involves creating efficient transport routes, planning customer orders, and collaborating with teams to improve processes. The ideal candidate has a background in transport planning within an FMCG environment and strong critical thinking abilities. This full-time contract offers competitive pay and an array of benefits.

Benefits

Free confidential 24/7 GP service

Hundreds of discounts

Affordable loans

Enhanced pension scheme

Employee support service with access to free counselling

Qualifications

• Experience in transport planning is essential.
• Strong planning abilities are required.
• Critical thinking skills are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Create routes and allocate vehicles to meet planning deadlines.
• Plan and consolidate customer orders.
• Liaise with Customer and Transport teams.
• Build a cost-effective and efficient plan.

Skills

Transport planning experience within an FMCG environment

Excellent knowledge of planning

Good critical thinking skills

Ability to communicate at all levels

Job description

Overview

Contract Type: Permanent (Full-Time) Shift patterns: 1200 - 2000 Shift days: Monday to Friday Location: Daventry, NN6 7GW

DHL, an award-winning leading supply chain business is seeking an experienced Transport Planner to play a vital role ensuring continuous improvement of planning processes within the transport department.

What does the role entail?

As part of your normal duties, whilst maintaining excellent health and safety practices, you will

• Create routes and allocate vehicles, alongside Driver resources to meet planning deadlines
• Planning and consolidating customer orders
• Liaising with Customer and Transport teams
• Building a cost effective and efficient plan

What do we need from you?

We'd love to hear from you if you have the following experience but don't hesitate to apply if you don't tick every box on this page - we're great at spotting talent and potential in everyone:

• Transport planning experience within an FMCG environment (Essential)
• Excellent knowledge of planning
• Good critical thinking skills
• Able to communicate at all levels, internally and externally

Why choose us?

As well as competitive pay rates, you will be entitled to an award-winning range of benefits including:

• Free confidential 24/7 GP service
• Hundreds of discounts (including retail, childcare + gym)
• Affordable loans & enhanced pension scheme
• 24/7 employee support service for you (+ family) with access to free counselling and much more: https://careers.dhl.com/global/en/dsc-benefits

Our approach to Diversity & Inclusion

We will ensure that all our resourcing activities are fair, transparent and consistent across the UK. Find out more about our global approach to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging: https://careers.dhl.com/global/en/diversity

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DHL is the global leader in Supply Chain management and we keep the world moving. Our expert teams work together to deliver for our customers across a range of industries including retail, automotive, healthcare and more, so they can deliver to their customers.

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