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Transport Team Manager
📍 Coventry
💰 £42,327.71 + £3,000 shift allowance
🕐 4 on / 4 off, alternating days and nights
⏰ 06:00–18:00 / 18:00–06:00
📋 Full-time, permanent
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Transport Team Manager to take responsibility for the day-to-day running of a busy transport operation based in Coventry.
You will lead a team of drivers and transport coordinators, ensuring deliveries are completed safely, efficiently and on time while maintaining high standards of compliance, service and cost control.
This is a hands-on transport management role suited to someone who understands HGV operations, knows their way around driver compliance and is confident managing people in a fast-paced environment.
What you'll be doing
- Managing the day-to-day transport operation, including drivers, coordinators, vehicles and schedules
- Overseeing a fleet of HGVs and ensuring vehicles are operated safely and efficiently
- Managing multi-drop delivery operations and transport planning
- Ensuring full compliance with Operator Licence requirements, Drivers' Hours, Working Time Regulations and tachograph legislation
- Monitoring transport performance, KPIs and operational costs
- Managing the end-to-end delivery of temperature-controlled products, including fresh, ambient and frozen goods
- Conducting regular performance reviews and addressing performance or behavioural issues with drivers
- Managing HR processes including absence, disciplinary and grievance matters
- Investigating vehicle accidents, incidents and operational issues
- Maintaining high standards of health and safety across the transport operation
- Working closely with other departments to resolve issues and maintain service levels
- Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, performance and resource utilisation
- Supporting the wider management team and contributing to the overall success of the operation
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What we're looking for
You'll ideally have:
- Significant experience in a Transport Management or Transport Operations Management position
- Strong HGV/fleet management knowledge
- Experience managing drivers and operational teams
- Experience within multi-drop distribution and transport planning
- A good understanding of Operator Licence compliance, Drivers' Hours, Working Time Regulations and tachographs
- Ideally, experience within temperature-controlled or food distribution
- Strong knowledge of transport KPIs, reporting and performance management
- Experience using Transport Management Systems and Microsoft Office
- Excellent communication and people-management skills
- Confidence handling difficult conversations and managing challenging situations
- A strong focus on health, safety and compliance
- The ability to remain calm and make decisions under pressure
- A hands-on, team-focused approach
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Why consider the role?
- £42,327.71 basic salary
- Additional £3,000 shift allowance
- 4-on / 4-off shift pattern
- Alternating days and nights
- Pension scheme which increases with service
- Life Assurance of up to 4x basic salary
- Retail discounts of up to 20%
- Free on-site parking
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Regular training and genuine career progression opportunities
The ideal candidate
This would suit an experienced Transport Manager, Transport Shift Manager, Transport Team Manager, Assistant Transport Manager or Senior Transport Supervisor who is ready to take ownership of a busy operation.
If you're comfortable managing drivers, HGV fleets, compliance and operational performance, and you're looking for a role where you're genuinely involved in the operation rather than sitting behind a desk, we'd like to hear from you.
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