Job description
Transport Network Planner (44723)
- Salary:£33, 044.98
- Region:Worksop
- Job Type/Function:
- Contract Type:Permanent
- Total number of weekly/annual hours:37.5
Grade: RCS M
Contract Type: Permanent (Full-Time)
Shift patterns: Any 5 from 7 rota - Day Shift (predominantly 9am - 5pm)
Location: Worksop, S80 3EG
Do you enjoy solving complex logistics challenges and building smart solutions that keep supply chains moving? Are you at your best when analysing information, balancing priorities, and finding the most efficient way to make things happen?
As a Transport Network Planner at our Manton Wood site, you'll be part of a dedicated planning team responsible for creating and managing transport plans across a busy network. Working closely with customers, transport teams and operational stakeholders, you'll play a key role in ensuring deliveries are planned efficiently, resources are utilised effectively, and service expectations are consistently achieved. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced environment where your decisions have a direct impact on network performance and customer satisfaction.
✅A TYPICAL DAY MAY INVOLVE
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Creating efficient and cost-effective transport plans across multiple sites, ensuring delivery volumes are routed in the most effective way
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Managing and prioritising customer orders, coordinating delivery schedules and responding to changing customer requirements
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Analysing customer profiles, delivery patterns and network demand to identify opportunities to improve planning efficiency and resource utilisation
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Collaborating with transport teams, warehouses, customer service colleagues and customers to ensure plans are executed successfully
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Driving network performance through achievement of KPI and SLA targets, while identifying opportunities to continuously improve planning processes and service delivery
✅THIS ROLE WOULD SUIT PEOPLE WHO
- Proven experience in transport route planning across a multi-site network, managing deliveries for a diverse customer base in a fast-paced environment
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to make effective decisions and respond quickly to changing operational requirements
- Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities, consistently meeting strict deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy
- Confident IT user with strong Microsoft Office and Microsoft Teams skills; experience using transport planning systems is advantageous, although full training will be provided on bespoke systems
- Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across transport, warehouse and customer-facing teams
✅WHY JOIN US?
- Join our generous pension scheme and benefit from an 8% employer contribution, alongside a 4% employee contribution
- Free confidential 24/7 GP consultations
- Hundreds of retail and lifestyle discounts
- Affordable loans, savings schemes and free mortgage advice
- Visit https://careers.dhl.com/global/en/working-at-dhl-supply-chain to learn more
✅WHO WE ARE
We're the global leaders in supply chain management with 188,000 people in over 50 countries. Our expert teams work together to deliver for our customers across a range of industries including retail, automotive, healthcare and more.
✅BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE
At DHL, we're all about creating a workplace where everyone's skills and experiences matter, and where you can be your true self every day.
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