Transport Planner

Logistics at full potential

Are you passionate about transport planning, coordination, and ensuring seamless pickup to delivery performance? Do you enjoy working in a dynamic environment where accuracy, communication, and operational efficiency are key? Then we are looking for you as a Transport Planner for our Venray operation!

You will play a crucial role in arranging subcontractors, tracking deliveries, monitoring KPIs, and ensuring flawless execution of transport activities.

What you do on a typical day

Arrange and coordinate transport subcontractors to ensure availability and effective route planning.

Ensure all customer orders are picked up on time and planning aligns with operational needs.

Manage daily administration, including transport costs, KPIs, reporting, and documentation.

Perform track & trace to guarantee on time delivery for all shipments.

Act as the central point of contact for all transport related matters, both internally and externally.

Support and coordinate transport activities within the Venray campus.

Schedule orders into optimal routing structures and planning overviews.

Detect and handle planning irregularities, solving issues proactively.

Process transport document flows accurately and efficiently.

Who you work with

You will work alongside 4 direct colleagues and report to 1 Transport Manager.

Frequent collaboration with Finance, QESH, Engineering, HR and the broader Transportation Team.

External contact with freight forwarders, subcontractors, carriers and logistics partners.

What you need to succeed at GXO

Experience in the transport sector, ideally in planning, coordination, or logistics operations.

Strong skills in Excel, data handling and digital tools.

Experience with TMS systems and transport documentation.

Excellent communication skills in English; Dutch is considered a strong benefit.

Analytical, detail oriented and comfortable working in a fast paced operational environment.

Customer focused with strong problem solving capabilities.

Team oriented but able to work independently when needed.

Flexibility to work day shift.

Possibility to work 2 days per week from home.

MBO level education in logistics, supply chain or a similar field.

What we offer you

Annual gross salary between €40.956,97 – €63.364,29, depending on experience.

A dynamic and international logistics environment within the Venray/Venlo region.

A role where you directly impact transport performance, cost control and customer satisfaction.

Opportunities for professional development within a global organization.

Hybrid working: up to 2 days per week working from home.

Your work environment

Working at GXO Logistics means joining a global leader in supply chain solutions. In this role, you will help ensure reliable, efficient and customer focused transport operations that support leading brands across various sectors.

Interested?

Apply via the button and upload your most recent CV.
For more information, you can contact Angel Roman, Corporate Recruiter, at angel.roman@gxo.com.

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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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