Regional Transport Planner
Do spreadsheets, rotas and transport plans bring out your inner problem‑solver—and do you love making the wheels keep turning across multiple sites? Ready to be the calm, organised brain behind the scenes, turning diverse transport challenges into smooth, on‑time deliveries every day? If so, join us as our Regional Transport Planner!
As our Regional Transport Planner based in our Sherburn depot (LS25) for our customer Sainsburys, you’ll support the delivery of efficient, compliant and cost‑effective transport plans across multiple Distribution Centres in a fast‑paced, time‑critical environment. Working closely with Transport Operations teams, site planners and the Transport Planning Manager, the role focuses on day‑to‑day planning execution, plan maintenance and operational support, with some travel required to support the wider network.
This is a full time, permanent position with contracted hours of 37.5 per week. Shift pattern requires flexibility for any 5 days out of 7, with hours between 06:00 to 15:00).
Pay, benefits and more:
We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £33,000 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:
- Create and maintain accurate transport plans, aligned to operational requirements and delivering agreed KPIs and SLAs
- Optimise transport hours and driver resources, including management of rotas, holidays and time & attendance exceptions
- Monitor performance and costs, producing accurate weekly finance and operational data to support decision‑making
- Proactively manage planning exceptions, escalating issues and resolving problems quickly to protect service
- Support peak, seasonal and multi‑site planning activity, demonstrating flexibility to meet changing network demands
What you need to succeed at GXO:
- Experience in transport or planning, with a solid understanding of transport operations and planning principles
- Strong organisational and analytical skills, with high attention to detail and confidence working with numbers and performance data
- Confident communicator and effective team player, able to collaborate well in a fast‑paced, time‑critical environment
- Good IT capability, particularly in Microsoft Excel; experience with Ortec or similar transport planning systems is an advantage
- Flexible and mobile, with the ability to travel between sites (full UK driving licence required)
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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