Senior Transport Planner **Internal Applicants Only**

Great Bear (Part of the Culina Group) provides distribution services to FMCG clients. Customer centric service focus is delivered through a site-level empowered culture.

At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive… A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!

Our Oldham site are now recruiting for a Senior Transport Planner to join their friendly team on a full time permanent basis.

Salary: £35,700 per annum. 

Working hours: Monday- Friday, 09:30-17:30.

As a Senior Transport Planner you will deliver a safe, compliant transport plan that both meets the needs of our customers and delivers an optimised solution for Great Bear and Culina Group.

Key Duties of a Senior Transport Planner:

• Management of the transport planners ensuring clear SOP’s / Processes are in place with all relevant people processes followed.
• Ensuring bookings are made in line with customer expectations whilst maximising alignment on booking times to increase efficiencies.
• Overseeing the daily building of a d1-d3 transport plan, ensuring all orders are planned correctly and efficiently whilst making sure plans are resource with the WTD / Driver working time regulations adhered to.
• Overseeing the allocation of resource to the built plan, ensuring all inbound and outbound orders are planned with chance of success.
• Ensuring adequate subcontractor resource to meet demand of operational peaks.
• Planning driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery / collection times, creating and updating daily plan v actual.
• Finding the best fit solution for customer collections, adhering to collection times, making sure they are aligned to outbound deliveries to maximise efficiencies and reduce empty running.
• Overseeing and supporting with the running of haulier self-bills on a weekly basis.
• Support group initiatives and projects such as project TEE / Microlise developments.

• A working knowledge of the Road Transport Directive and current drivers’ hours.
• Attention to detail / accuracy.
• Computer literate including Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Able to work efficiently and accurately under pressure.
• Able to work as part of a team or individually.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Strong communicator across all levels.
• Strong systems skills including tachomaster / tranman / Rpad runner and other planning systems.

As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work, we are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.

Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.

Our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

• Annual Leave – 28 days inclusive of the bank holidays. 
• Pension scheme – We want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 4% employee and 4% employer.
• Life Assurance -  x2 your annual salary.
• Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year. 
• Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses. 
• Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the Month and Year, special recognition and long service awards.
• Everyday discounts - Via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!

If you meet the requirements for the above role and are looking for your next career opportunity, please apply now and become a part of our #WinningTeam!