This role offers the opportunity to coordinate all transport processes, ensuring standards are met within legislation, compliance, and health & safety. The successful candidate will be instrumental in maximising cost efficiency and contributing to capital development projects. This role requires a strong team builder with exceptional interpersonal skills, who can create a high-performance culture within the team.
Transport Manager
Salary: Competitive and based on experience
Location: West Midlands
Keywords: Transport, Logistics, Management, Compliance, Team Building, Performance Measurement
Our client is seeking a highly organised and motivated UK Transport Manager to join their team in the West Midlands. This role offers the opportunity to coordinate all transport processes, ensuring standards are met within legislation, compliance, and health & safety. The successful candidate will be instrumental in maximising cost efficiency and contributing to capital development projects. This role requires a strong team builder with exceptional interpersonal skills, who can create a high-performance culture within the team.
* Opportunity to coordinate all transport processes
* Contribute to capital development projects
* Create a high-performance culture within the team
What you'll do:
As a UK Transport Manager, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating all transport processes with both internal and external stakeholders. Your excellent problem-solving skills will be utilised in developing logistics strategies by analysing logistical problems and producing innovative solutions. You will ensure that the fleet operates within legal and regulatory standards while providing clear direction, motivation, and leadership to your team. Your ability to monitor the quality, cost, and efficiency of movement and storage of goods will be crucial in this role. Furthermore, your responsibility extends to managing staff resources according to changing needs while leading on engagement, development, and performance management of your department.
* Responsible for the profit/loss of the metals transport business
* Manage resources to deliver on KPI’s in a cost-effective manner and hit SLA targets
* Develop logistics strategy by analysing logistical problems and producing new solutions
* Support operations teams country-wide in all aspects of logistics including the selection and management of contractors and third-party service providers
* Ensure the fleet operates within legal and regulatory standards
* Provide clear direction, motivation, and leadership to the team by creating a positive and collaborative culture
* Monitor the quality, cost and efficiency of the movement and storage of goods.
* Analyse data to monitor performance and plan improvements
* Allocate and manage staff resources according to changing needs
* Lead on the engagement, development, and performance management of department to improve standards and quality
What you bring:
The ideal candidate for the UK Transport Manager position brings proven logistics management experience including knowledge of best practice techniques. Your strong people management skills coupled with an exceptional organisational ability will enable you to effectively complete tasks and objectives. A high level of attention to detail, excellent interpersonal skills, flexibility, adaptability, integrity, confidentiality are key attributes you possess. Your strong written and verbal communication skills will be utilised in building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Furthermore, your high level of analytic capability will be instrumental in improving working practices and implementing performance measurement indicators.
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
About the job
Contract Type: Permanent
Specialism: Procurement & Supply Chain
Focus: Logistics
Industry: Logistics Distribution and Supply Chain
Workplace Type: On-site
Experience Level: Entry Level
Location: West Midlands
Contract Type: Permanent
Specialism: Procurement & Supply Chain
Focus: Logistics
Industry: Logistics Distribution and Supply Chain
Salary: Negotiable
Workplace Type: On-site
Experience Level: Entry Level
Location: West Midlands
FULL_TIME
Job Reference: 6IKQTK-03B912F3
Date posted: 25 June 2025
Consultant: Jamie Harding
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