Regional Transport Manager

T&G Global Limited; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lead regional transport operations for the Northern Region across Auckland, Pukekohe, Hamilton and Tauranga, guiding Transport Managers and driving performance. You’ll focus on safety, financial results and customer service, visiting sites and leading change initiatives to unite sites into one high-performing region.

You’ll bring significant transport/logistics leadership, strong budgeting and stakeholder management skills, with a collaborative, strategic mindset to develop teams and deliver

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience within transport, logistics or supply chain.
• Proven ability to lead leaders across multiple locations.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with experience managing budgets.
• Ability to think strategically while supporting field teams.
• Experience leading change and bringing people together during transformations.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Collaborative leadership style that develops people and builds trust.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional transport operations and senior teams across multiple sites.
• Drive safety culture and ensure regulatory compliance across NZTA requirements.
• Improve productivity, utilisation and cost efficiency in the region.
• Manage regional budgets, labour and asset performance.
• Build relationships with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Support site changes and navigate change successfully.

Skills

Leadership experience

Lead leaders across multiple locations

Commercial and financial acumen

Strategic thinking

Change management

Communication skills

Collaborative leadership

Job description

Lead regional transport operations. Drive performance. Build the future.

At T&G Fresh, we keep New Zealand moving. Every day our transport teams connect growers, customers and communities by delivering fresh produce safely, efficiently and reliably across the country.

We're looking for an experienced Regional Transport Manager to lead our Northern Region transport operation, supporting teams across Auckland, Pukekohe, Hamilton and Tauranga. This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who enjoys improving performance, leading people through change and making commercially smart decisions that deliver better outcomes for our customers and our business.

This isn't a role for someone who simply keeps the wheels turning. We're looking for someone who can step back, see the bigger picture and bring multiple sites together to operate as one high-performing region.

About The Role

Reporting to the Head of Transport you'll provide leadership to Transport Managers across the region while overseeing the safety, operational and financial performance of the business.

You'll spend time at each of your sites, building strong relationships with your teams, supporting leaders to grow, and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, collaboration and customer service.

With exciting change ahead across the business, you'll play a key role in leading operational improvements, supporting site changes and helping teams navigate change successfully.

What you'll be responsible for

• Leading a strong safety culture where people always come first.
• Coaching, developing and supporting Transport Managers to build high-performing teams.
• Driving operational excellence across multiple sites.
• Identifying opportunities to improve productivity, utilisation and cost efficiency across the region.
• Managing regional budgets, labour and asset performance.
• Building strong relationships with customers and key internal stakeholders.
• Ensuring compliance with NZTA requirements, driver hours and transport legislation.
• Leading change initiatives while bringing people on the journey.

About You

You’ll be an experienced transport or logistics leader who understands both the operational and commercial realities of running a complex transport network.

You’ll Bring

• Significant leadership experience within transport, logistics or supply chain.
• A proven ability to lead leaders across multiple locations.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with experience managing budgets and improving operational performance.
• The ability to think strategically while remaining close enough to the operation to support your teams.
• Experience leading change and bringing people together through periods of transformation.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• A collaborative leadership style that develops people and builds trust.

Most importantly, you'll be someone who enjoys making things better. You'll challenge the status quo, look for smarter ways of working and help create one connected regional operation.

Why join T&G Fresh?

This is an opportunity to genuinely shape the future of our transport operation.

You’ll have the autonomy to influence how the region performs, work alongside experienced operational leaders and make a visible impact across multiple sites.

For the right person, this role also offers a clear pathway into broader transport leadership opportunities within the business.

We want T&G to be a place where everyone is accepted, respected and celebrated for who they are – regardless of our similarities or differences. It’s essential that everyone can be themselves and thrive, and that together we create a diverse and vibrant workplace.

Our story began more than 125 years ago as Turners and Growers, a fruit auction business in Auckland. Today, as T&G, our fresh, delicious produce nourishes people in more than 60 countries around the world. Together, we’re united in growing healthier futures.