£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 you’ll:
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.
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.
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.
Identify opportunities for inter-site collaboration and networking to help fill empty network capacity, remove dead mileage, and reduce sub-contracting costs.
Bring a high level of communication to the team, as the job relies heavily on speaking to the customer, the drivers, and your Unipart colleagues to ensure you know everything about your plan and resources at all times.
Apply continuous improvement methodology in the transport management operations to deliver service and cost improvement.
About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!
Ability to cope with the demands of a fast-moving and ever-changing set of priorities.
Able to react, adapt and optimize
Ability to work towards targets and timescales
Strong planning and organisational skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a good attention to detail is absolutely paramount
Strong team player that can also work to their own initiative
Excellent IT skills in Microsoft Office and / or Google Suites
An understanding of Transport and/or Distribution
Transport, planning & operational knowledge desirable advantageous
Strong knowledge of UK geography advantageous but not essential
About Unipart
We are a supply chain performance improvement partner. We Design, Make, Move, and Improve components in our customers’ supply chains, keeping their operations and assets moving and working better, for longer. Through our commitment to continuously driving operational efficiencies, we improve performance - saving time, cost, and carbon. Our ambition is to be the driving force behind efficient, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We believe that a great workplace is one where you can bring your whole self to work. Our recruitment process is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and based entirely on merit. We define merit through a combination of technical skills and the core behaviours that help our people thrive at Unipart. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of background or circumstances. We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity that exceeds our statutory obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and subsequent legislation. Whether it’s your age, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, family status, or any other characteristic that makes you ‘you’ - it is your talent and potential that we value most. Adjustments for you: We want you to perform at your best. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We are here to support you.
You may have experience of the following: Transport Planner, Transport Coordinator, Logistics Planner, Distribution Planner, Fleet Planner, Transport Scheduler, Logistics Coordinator, Network Planner, Route Planner, or Supply Chain Planner.
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Salary description
£34000.00 - £34000.00 per year