Pay Rate: £25,000 Contract Type: 12 month FTC Work Schedule: Mon-Fri 40hrs per week (08:30-17:00) Hybrid work Location: Southampton, SO15 8TL DHL, an award-winning leading supply chain business is seeking a Network Planner to play a vital role coordinating our daily warehouse and distribution requirements. WHAT DOES THE ROLE ENTAIL? As part of your normal duties, whilst maintaining excellent health and safety practices, you will: Role Purpose: To plan, execute inbound and outbound shipments predominantly across ENA but also globally using road, sea, multimodal and air freight. Operational and customer service responsibilities for the LLP services for BAT, this role will have direct customer and carrier liaison. To have detailed knowledge of customer's business in order to work closely with and enhance the customer's distribution network to its clients. To drive and increase customer service levels by driving the identification and implementation of Continuous Improvement initiatives within the defined scope of the responsibilities on a YOY basis To respond to management reports that identify cost and service drivers and convey clearly the performance of each service supplier and the associated cost in line with contractual KPI's Implement and operate agreed project priorities with the customer Ensure operation enables cost optimisation of the scope of responsibilities through the use of process optimisation, benchmarking and tendering 3pl operations 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: Requirements: Experience in Transport/Logistics planning role - Desirable Network Planning operational experience - Desirable IT competent, ability to use MS packages & SAP - Desirable Experience of the DHL working methods - Desirable Implementation delivery and change management experience - Desirable Multi country experience and cultural sensitivity - Essential Influence across DHL's and the Customer's business divisions 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 BE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE 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. UKIDSCWellBeing