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Company Description

Following years of accelerated growth, Culina Group is now a £2.2billion+ turnover business, employing over 22,000 staff, with a fleet of more than 5,000 vehicles. Culina Group operates from over 100+ depots across the UK and Ireland, serving more than 1,000 clients over its framework of chilled, ambient, contract packaging solutions and fresh and baked goods.

Company Overview 

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

We are currently seeking a Senior Transport Planner to support the Minworth site’s transport operation. As a Senior Transport Planner, you will manage and oversee the day-to-day operation, ensuring that service levels are achieved and maintained.

Ideally, you will be a highly driven individual with significant transport experience within a FMCG environment, along with proven knowledge surrounding drivers’ hours, etc.

Shift Pattern: Any 5 in 7 days (predominantly Monday-Friday), 7am-3pm OR 11am-7pm

Salary: £35,000 - £37,446 per annum DOE

Key Duties of a Senior Transport Planner include:

Optimising resource and adherence of WTD and drivers’ hours legislation.
Planning driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery and collection times, creating and updating daily run summaries.
Creating an effective transport plan to achieve on time delivery and collection performance expectations.
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.
Providing the Admin Team with schedules to maintain and achieve KPI’s.
Arranging deliveries using nominated contractors for special instruction deliveries.
Communicating any potential failures or changes to the original plan.
Ensuring all accidents, incidents and near misses are logged and reported.
Liaising with and planning Drivers in for meetings and courses as required.
Managing vehicle cleanliness to ensure that the company’s corporate image is maintained at all times.

Qualifications

As a Senior Transport Planner you will possesses the following skills, experiences and qualifications:

Be able to demonstrate a high level of transport expertise in a busy and demanding environment.
Strong planning and organisational skills, with a high level of numeracy.
Negotiating skills with the ability to influence and steer.
Flexible and methodical approach to work and training.
Strong communication skills in order to deliver accurate information.
The ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure.
Consumer orientated and customer service driven.
Be professional, approachable and helpful to ensure the smooth running of the general operation.
Have proven knowledge of Road Transport Directive and current drivers’ hours.
Have significant experience in FMCG environment.
Knowledge of Paragon and Road Runner systems would be advantageous.

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.

Our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

Annual Leave – Competitive holiday entitlement.
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 days, 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