Assistant Transport Manager

Are you currently working in a transport environment but feel like you’ve hit a stop sign? Are you looking for a career ‘move’, where you’ll constantly be challenged to grow and develop your skills? Are you ready to take the highway to your next challenge?

GXO is currently seeking a talented and driven Assistant Transport Manager to join us on at our B&Q site in Doncaster. Here you will lead a team of shift managers, team leaders, clerks, and drivers by giving direction and monitoring performance, to ensure that the department operates efficiently and effectively in providing a quality service.

This is a full time, permanent position, where you’ll be working Monday - Friday, 09:00-17:00, with some flexibility required, this is transport after all!

Pay, benefits and more:

You’ll be paid a salary of up to £45,000.00 per annum. You’ll also receive 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays), as well as the option to buy additional days so you can enjoy a positive work-life balance. You’ll have access to an onsite gym, private healthcare, a dental plan, a workplace pension, and our GXO University which provides you the opportunity to learn new skills and gain qualifications at a pace that you’re comfortable with. Plus, many other perks such as a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme and our continued focus on internal promotions, over 60% last year!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• You’ll identify and resolve operational issues and where appropriate escalate to the Transport Manager, ensuring that the transport department always remains legally compliant
• To ensure that the transport function is legally compliant by ensuring correct compliance processes are in place, and monitored within the O-licence regulations
• Ensure a customer focused approach whilst being responsive to customer requirements.  Create excellence in customer relationship management by improving the service offered

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• You will have experience of managing a team within a large and fast paced transport environment
• You will be a strong leader with excellent communication skills, to champion a can-do attitude, International CPC desirable
• You will have experience of managing conflicting priorities, along with planning and organising skills within a transport operation
• Experience using change management practices and ideologies

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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