Transport Manager

A Day in the Life – Transport Manager

Your day starts with the Transport operation already moving at our site in Zellik. Working at a 60,000m2, -22 degrees frozen goods site (-18 degrees truck environment), supporting >60 customers.

You’re distributing 11K pallets.  Checking performance, connect with your team, and reset priorities. You’re visible on site—supporting, coaching, and stepping in where it counts.

As issues arise (they always do), you handle them calmly and commercially balancing customer expectations, cost control, and service quality. You review KPIs, identify improvement opportunities, and make decisions that keep everything flowing.

Later, your focus shifts to the bigger picture: financial performance, customer reviews, future capacity, and new opportunities. You work with internal stakeholders, contribute to sales discussions, and ensure transport solutions work in practice.

Throughout the day, you set the standard—on safety, compliance, sustainability, and quality. You don’t wait for problems; you prevent them.

When you leave site, things are under control. Customers are confident. The team is aligned. And tomorrow is already set up for success.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Lead and grow a transport team of 9, taking full ownership of day‑to‑day operations and driving a culture of performance, safety, and continuous improvement
• Take full accountability for the transport P&L, managing budgets, costs, invoicing accuracy, and operating income with a strong commercial mindset
• Deliver an excellent customer experience, exceeding KPIs, contributing to QBRs, and partnering with sales on quotations and growth opportunities
• Drive efficiency and innovation, embedding Lean principles, quality systems, sustainability initiatives, and leading the rollout of new transport technologies from 2026
• Be a role model for compliance and standards, ensuring Health & Safety, legal, environmental, and GXO requirements are consistently met

What You’ll Need

• Solid experience in transport or distribution operations (typically 5+ years), with strong operational credibility

• A people‑first leader who enjoys coaching teams and leading through change and continuous improvement

• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with confidence owning budgets and managing a P&L

• Comfortable driving operational improvement, efficiency, and change in a fast‑paced environment
• Fluent in Dutch and English, with professional French; a relevant degree and transport licence (vakbekwaamheid) are an advantage, not a requirement

What GXO Offers You

• A full‑time leadership role with genuine ownership
• Influence over strategy, innovation, and future transport models
• Direct involvement in GXO’s 2026 transformation roadmap and rollout of Transport Technology
• Career development within a global, growing organisation
• A role where your impact is visible and valued

Unlock the potential of your future! 

Working at GXO Logistics means working in a dynamic and international organization. A fascinating environment with plenty of room for personal input and development. Employees at GXO Logistics are in charge of their own success. Whatever your position at GXO Logistics, you will face new challenges every day, which will enable you to develop optimally. We support you in your development, so that you can contribute to the entrepreneurship of our organisation.  
 
GXO Logistics offers advanced supply chain solutions for the world's most successful companies in many industries; like e-commerce, food & retail and industrial multinationals. In Northern Europe (The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany) GXO Northern Europe operates from +30 different locations with its headquarters in Eindhoven (NL).  

Want to know more about GXO Logistics?  

Watch the video below or visit our website  www.gxo.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P7NC8gl3bg 
 

In short, this is the next place you want to work! 

For more information, please contact Debbie Haywood, she can be reached debbie.haywood@gxo.com #LI-DH1

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GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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