Coleford, Gloucestershire
Osborne Appointments

Transport Planner

Location: Coleford

Permanent, full time

Salary: up to £35,000 depending on experience

A permanent opportunity has arisen for a Transport Planner to join an extremely fast paced environment in Hatfield with brilliant career progression opportunities as the company grows. Our client is looking for someone with a strong transport background, preferably in planning to work on the client site.

What you will be doing:

• Day to Day support with coverage of order profile
• Day to day management of transactional charging through internal and external business sales
• Individual route margin management
• Operational control of agreed transactions from collection through to delivery and POD return
• Tactical entrepreneurial improvisation on a route by route basis for the Ad hoc and last minute request market
• Customer route negotiation and carrier solution negotiation on a route my route basis
• Maintain excellent working relationships with all sites, key stakeholders, suppliers and customers
• Data gathering and KPI reporting
• Develop and build robust relationships with customers and carriers
• Provide detailed data on activity sourced and operational performance to the Brokers

What we need from you:

• A general understanding of the UK Transport industry
• Purchasing and sales
• Ability to provide constructive and supportive feedback to peers
• Able to travel within UK
• Ability to work under pressure as part of a team and also as an individual
• Good telephone communication skills
• Microsoft office skills – specifically Microsoft Excel
• Geograhical knowledge of the UK
• Ability to think out of the box
• An understanding of 3rd party sub contraction

Benefits:

• Parking onsite
• Career Progression
• 33 days holiday
• 15% non-contractual bonus
• Access to private medical cover
• Access to Employee Benefit Portal including retail discounts
• Access to Cycle to Work scheme

Interviews are being held immediately

Thank you for your interest in this vacancy, which is being advertised by Osborne Appointments, who are acting as an employment agency / business. Your application will be considered in competition with others and we will contact you within 3 working days.

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