Transport Team Manager (Nights)

Are you an experienced Transport Team Manager ready to lead drivers in a fast‑paced operation—keeping people safe, compliant, and delivering day‑to‑day excellence for a major customer like Sainsbury’s?

 Do you thrive in busy transport environments where strong people leadership, operational focus, and continuous improvement combine to create a better everyday for your team? If so, join us as our Transport Team Manager on our night owl shift!

You’ll be joining our dynamic, collaborative team on night shift as Transport Team Manager, for our customer Sainsburys in our Basingstoke depot. This is a great opportunity to utilise your passion for people and safety first leadership and driving performance.

This is a full time, permanent position working on nights. Shift pattern of 40 hours per week (5 out of 7, with start times between 18:00 to 22:00).

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £38,210.16 (plus night allowance of is £3120) per annum and 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Day‑to‑day management of a busy transport operation, ensuring work is issued and dispatched on time, fleet utilisation is optimised, and service risks are escalated appropriately
• Ownership of on‑road issues and delivery failures, liaising with customers, resolving problems quickly, and driving root‑cause solutions
• Engaging, hands‑on people leadership, delivering effective pre‑shift briefings and de‑briefs, alongside coaching, training, performance and absence management
• Full transport compliance accountability, covering drivers’ hours, vehicle safety, audit readiness, record accuracy, and adherence to GXO and customer quality standards
• Commitment to safety and site processes, ensuring Safe Systems of Work, Health & Safety regulations, payroll, yard management, fleet collections and all site‑based processes are followed

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Passion to deliver in a fast-paced transport operation, with previous transport experience in a supervisory role
• Experience in using transport management systems and MS packages
• Proven knowledge of driver/transport legislation and proud to deliver compliance
• Strong communication skills, with ability to work on own initiative as well as team engagement/delivery

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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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