Transport Team Manager
Ready to step up (or build on your experience) and lead a high-performing transport team in a fast-paced distribution environment? Looking for a role where you can drive safety, engagement, and operational excellence while progressing your career in transport management? Join us as our Transport Team Manager, based in our Emerald Park, Bristol depot for our customer Sainsburys!
As our Transport Team Manager, you will thrive in our fast-paced environment, bringing energy, drive, and determination to everything you do. You’ll be passionate about keeping people safe, building a motivated team, strengthening customer relationships, and constantly looking for ways to improve how things run.
This isn’t just a job — it’s a real opportunity to grow your career, lead from the front, and shape the future of transport operations.
This is a full time, permanent position with 37.5 hours contracted per week. Working hours are any 5 days out of 7, working on a rotational shift of 06:00 to 14.00 and 14.00 to 22.00.
Pay, benefits and more:
We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £35,804.45 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus 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:
- Lead and inspire a team of Transport Clerks and Drivers, reporting into the Transport Shift Manager
- Motivate your team to hit targets and deadlines through clear guidance, coaching, and support
- Drive operational performance by achieving daily and weekly KPIs using transport management systems
- Ensure a first-class service while maintaining full compliance with legal, licence, and regulatory requirements
What you need to succeed at GXO:
- Proven experience in a transport environment, with unionised experience a plus
- Strong understanding of transport systems, driver management tools, and relevant legislation
- Confident people leader with excellent interpersonal and team management skills
- Skilled at building stakeholder relationships and influencing performance through accountability and ownership
We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.
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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