Regional Transport Panner

Have you been involved in the transport function within logistics and are looking to further your career? Are you a problem solver with great initiative? Do you pride yourself on your attention to detail? Do you want to work for a fantastic company with great culture and strong values?

Here at GXO, we are recruiting for a Regional Transport Planner to join our ever-growing Transport Team at our Sainsburys site in Stoke. You will be working on a full-time, permanent basis, any 5 days out of 7.

Pay, benefits and more:

You’ll be paid a salary of up to £32,500 and receive 28 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays. Your benefits package includes a company pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, extensive retail discounts across all the big retailers including supermarkets, fashion, technology, travel, days out, hair & beauty, sports and much more, continuous training and development opportunities and extensive wellbeing programmes and initiatives accessible to all employees.

What you'll do on a typical day:

• Production and maintenance of accurate transport plans aligned to operational requirements
• Achievement of agreed KPIs and SLAs whilst effectively planning and utilising transport hours and driver resource
• Management of driver rotas, holidays, time and attendance exceptions
• Accurate weekly finance and performance data collation and timely escalation and resolution of planning exceptions
• Support for peak and seasonal planning activities
• Flexibility to support planning activity across multiple sites

What will you bring? 

• Experience within transport, logistics or planning environment and an understanding of transport operations and planning
• Strong organisation and competent IT skills
• Flexibility to travel between sites; full UK driving licence required
• Experience of Ortec or similar transport planning systems

• Multi‑site or network planning experience

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.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.