Primary Transport Support Assistant Northampton, England
Job description
Primary Transport Support Assistant
Location: Crick
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £23,500
Hours: 40 hours per week, Sunday to Wednesday
You don’t get to be one of the nation’s largest and most loved supermarkets without a brilliant team — and our Transport colleagues are central to keeping our operations running smoothly, ensuring our customers can buy the goods they need in store.
When you work for Sainsbury’s, you are helping your community eat, shop, and live better, all while being part of a family that’s 187,000 people strong. After all, making the best-quality products available in-store for our customers is what we’re about. Just ask the millions of people up and down the country who choose to shop with us every week.
Acting as an advocate for the Sainsbury’s culture, values and behaviours, The Primary Transport support assistant is responsible for production and analysis of complex financial reporting information, including financial reports, invoices and payments. You’ll need to work collaboratively with other business areas, providing challenge and influence to meet critical deadlines. You’ll be part of a team that’s responsible for correct revenue streams of circa £40m revenue. As part of the role, you’ll need to apply good judgement, to identify root cause analysis and resulting actions as well as resolving complex problems.
We’d like to hear from you if you have…
Good attention to detail with good reporting and analytical skills.
Ability to influence effectively at all levels (Up to MD level with suppliers).
Knowledge of end-to-end supply chain operations.
Excellent admin and organisational ability.
Ability to work well under pressure and hit deadlines.
Intermediate capability with Microsoft Excel, e.g. able to effectively create and use pivot tables.
Ability to utilise systems to produce accurate business information.
Ability to identify and make recommendations on activities to improve.
Ability to effectively manipulate large amounts of complex data.
Health & Safety - commitment to safety
Understands, encourages, and complies with company/site safety policies and procedures. Completes all required training and takes personal responsibility for the safety of themselves and others.
What you’ll be doing
Works collaboratively with suppliers, partners and finance to ensure all backhaul requests are cross charged correctly.
Responsible for ensuring all Primary volume is charged correctly to our suppliers. Approx revenue of £41m.
Negotiating rates (within pre-defined parameters) and arranging transport for ad-hoc requests whilst ensuring the delivery of an effective solution.
Responsible for raising invoices to suppliers to ensure accurate and timely payment.
Produce accurate, timely financial reports for the network by collating daily and weekly information and validating this with the depots and third parties, identifying issues and making recommendations/proposals for improvement.
Responsibility for developing systems and routines to collate, monitor and input complex data from multiple sources, e.g. inter-location transfers, KPI reporting, project activity, load failure reports and hub cross charges.
Produce KPIs and challenge inadequate performance from suppliers to ensure high service levels to our depots.
Collate depot returns data from all depots and collaborate with suppliers and Supply Chain to minimise waste and improve availability.
Support the Planning team with booking deliveries into depots.
Influence and manage expectations of depots, suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure a high service level at the best possible cost.
Investigate errors to identify root cause and make recommendations for improvement to prevent reoccurrence.
This list is not exhaustive and, you may be required to undertake any other duties deemed appropriate by your line manager to facilitate the smooth running of the depot.
Your benefits:
Pre-planned shifts
Work with the best colleagues and the latest equipment
Season ticket loan after you’ve completed 12 weeks of service and passed your probation.
Discount card after 4 weeks that gives you 10% off your Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat shopping.
Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
Cycle to work scheme available.
Full PPE provided.
Comprehensive training to help you perform well in the role.
Who we are
We know that life is bigger than just your job and, while we can’t always accommodate every flexible working request, we do support part-time and job-share roles — so don’t hesitate to ask us how we can work around your availability.
One more thing: Sainsbury’s is a place for people who are open, kind and dedicated to doing better every day. Diversity and inclusion are key, so you’ll be a role model encouraging all colleagues to be themselves at work while also recognising great performance and cheering on progress.
Here at Sainsbury’s Argos we’re a proud equal opportunities employer that values diversity at every level of our business. Inclusion and Diversity are fundamental to our culture and values, fostering an innovative, collaborative and fast paced work environment that means we can build a better future for our colleagues and our customers. Everyone is welcome at Sainsbury’s Argos. Want to find out more? Then visit our Diversity & Inclusion page on our Careers site
