Culina Group
Senior Transport Planner **Internal Applicants Only**
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Company Description
Great Bear (Part of the Culina Group) provides distribution services to FMCG clients. Customer centric service focus is delivered through a site-level empowered culture.
At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive… A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!
Job Description
Our Oldham site is now recruiting for a Senior Transport Planner to join their friendly team on a full time permanent basis.
Salary: £35,700 per annum.
Working hours: Monday- Friday, 09:30-17:30.
As a Senior Transport Planner you will support the site operation with planning transport taking into account WTD & EU regulations and compliance legalities.
Key Duties of a Senior Transport Planner:
- Managing and overseeing the Transport day operation, ensuring that service levels are achieved and maintained.
- Optimising resource and adherence of WTD & drivers’ hours legislation.
- Planning driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery / collection times, creating and updating daily run summary.
- Effectively communicating with the Planning team and other depots.
- Providing 24/7 communication Transport link with Customer Services and Sales Order Processing.
- Monitoring retailer arrival and departure times, ensuring deliveries are made within the specified windows.
- Finding the best fit solution for customer collections, adhering to collection times.
- Arranging deliveries using nominated contractors for special instruction deliveries, re-deliveries.
- Communicating any potential failures or changes to the original plan.
- Ensuring all accidents, incidents and near misses are logged and reported.
- Liaising and planning drivers in for meetings / courses as required.
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Qualifications
- Significant transport experience in FMCG environment.
- Attention to detail/accuracy.
- Planning and organising skills, high level of numeracy.
- Strong communication skills in order to deliver accurate information.
- Effectively prioritise workload in order to meet set deadlines.
- Able to work as part of a team or individually.
- Have knowledge of Road Transport Directive and current drivers’ hours.
- Be professional, approachable and helpful to ensure smooth running of the general operation.
Additional Information
As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work, we are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.
Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.
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Our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:
- Annual Leave – 28 days inclusive of the bank holidays.
- Pension scheme – We want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 4% employee and 4% employer.
- Life Assurance - x2 your annual salary.
- Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses.
- Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the Month and Year, special recognition and long service awards.
- Everyday discounts - Via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!
If you meet the requirements for the above role and are looking for your next career opportunity, please apply now and become a part of our #WinningTeam!
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