Senior Transport Manager

Are you ready to lead a high‑performing, safety‑focused transport operation where you’ll shape strategy, drive continuous improvement, and deliver outstanding service for customers every day?

Do you have the leadership strength to manage a large fleet, build strong union and colleague relationships, ensure full compliance, and develop a talented team while keeping performance, cost, and culture at the heart of everything you do?

Join our Haydock team as Senior Transport Manager, for our customer Sainsburys. You will provide strong leadership across the Transport Department with full responsibility and accountability for our fast-paced, customer driven 24-hour, 7 days a week operation. You’ll be leading a large Management, Driver and Admin team in the delivery of exceptional customer service whilst remaining cost effective, ensuring full legal compliance with a safety-first culture.

This is a permanent, full-time position with contracted hours of 40 per week. Core hours are Monday to Friday (days), with flexibility for business needs across weekends/evenings when required.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £70,000 per annum (dependent on experience), and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company car OR car allowance to the value of £6,000 PA, a discretionary annual bonus up to 15%, private medical insurance, 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 ensure the safe, compliant, and efficient delivery of a large multi‑temperature transport operation, meeting all service levels, customer metrics, and legislative requirements
• Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement, contributing to strategic business planning, cost control, risk management, and root‑cause analysis for any variances
• Manage and maintain a large vehicle fleet, ensuring all maintenance, defect reporting, and rectification processes are followed to guarantee reliability and safety
• Provide strong people leadership, fostering effective trade union relations, colleague engagement, wellbeing, clear communication, fair treatment, and robust coaching and succession planning
• Champion GXO values, promoting a culture of accountability, respect, and continuous improvement, while maintaining flexibility to meet the needs of the operation

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Safety‑focused, results‑driven leader with strong organisational, planning, and decision‑making skills, able to deliver against cost, service, and time pressures
• Confident communicator who engages effectively in team settings and one‑to‑one, demonstrating calm, balanced leadership and the ability to handle change
• Proven people leader skilled in developing others and fostering high performance through strong coaching
• Highly competent and detail‑orientated, with the capability to interpret data quickly to make critical decisions
• Professionally qualified (National & International CPC)

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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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