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Following years of accelerated growth Culina Group is now a £2.2billion+ turnover business, employing over 22,000 staff, with a fleet of more than 5,000 vehicles. Culina Group operates from over 100+ depots across the UK and Ireland, serving more than 1,000 clients over its framework of chilled, ambient, contract packaging solutions and fresh and baked goods.

Part of the Culina Group, Great Bear is the flexible, agile ambient 3PL alternative. We have built a strong reputation within the industry by fostering long-term relationships based on the core principal of customer service excellence. Our scale and capability allow us to deliver valuable solutions to our customers meeting their requirements and in turn, those of their customers.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Transport Operations Manager to join our diverse team in Burton Latimer. Within this role, you will be responsible for the 24/7 transport operations, ensuring that costs are controlled in line with budget/forecast expectations. You will also motivate and manage a team to develop them through engagement, training and personal development plans.

Shifts: Any 5 in 7 days; 9am-5pm

Key accountabilities of a Transport Operations Manager include:

• Manage your team to ensure they execute traffic plans to enable delivery of products to customers within agreed service levels.
• Reduce non-contract maintenance and damage spends through the use of vehicle passports and daily confirmation of spend.
• Ensure that all available fleet is on the road and declared to enable the planning team to plan the resource.
• Motivate and develop the transport team and ensure that they comply with all relevant statutes and regulations.
• Communicate with third party hauliers in regards to control all reported defects on drop trailers left for pre-loading.
• Check and approve maintenance cost reports and related invoices.
• Ensure daily, weekly and monthly compliance milestones are achieved, measured by internal audit scoring.
• Attend daily, weekly and monthly customer review meetings.
• Monitor, audit and control suppliers.
• Support implementation of service improvements in conjunction with customers and other areas of the business.
• Generate and implement ideas with regards to staff and operational changes, which will help drive continuous improvement.

• Proven supervisory experience within a busy transport environment, ideally within a FMCG industry.
• Leadership and motivational qualities with proven experience of building a team.
• Good commercial knowledge of transport operations including experience of operating in a shared user environment.
• Excellent negotiating skills with the ability to influence and steer.
• Strong planning and organising skills with a high level of numeracy.
• Effective communication skills with personal motivation and confidence resulting in a positive impact.
• Ability to thrive in a highly competitive and demanding environment.
• Commercially focused, consumer orientated and customer service driven.
• National and International CPC qualification is desirable.

In return for your passion, commitment and hard work, you will receive:

• Competitive basic salary and holiday entitlement
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Private medical cover
• Life assurance
• Retail discounts
• Progression opportunities
• Plus much more!

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a personable and growing business with plenty of opportunities and a great team.

If you meet the criteria above and are interested in and use to working in a fast paced organisation then click apply now and #joinourwinningteam!