Nuneaton (Flexibility required/Hybrid option available)
£34,000 per annum plus 22 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme
About the Role
As a Transport Planner, you'll be the driving force ensuring our centralised planning function runs smoothly, delivering on-time and cost-effective transport services that keep our customers delighted. You will be crucial in managing resources effectively, tackling everything from daily operations to unexpected challenges like volume spikes, holidays, and sickness to consistently hit our delivery and on-time KPIs.
As part of your key responsibilities youll:
1. Create and maintain a cost-effective route plan out of multiple sites/contracts across the UK to ensure high levels of service measured against defined KPIs.
2. Plan journeys and understand resource capability without the aid of a TMS system, using strong geographical and planning experience to bring data sets to life and visualise planned routes.
3. React, shuffle, and constantly optimize the plan to react to volume changes, job adjustments, or any other determining factors, ensuring the plan is the most optimal it can be at all times.
4. Identify opportunities for inter-site collaboration and networking to help...