Transport Distribution Manager

Reporting to the General Manager, you will be responsible for managing the Health, Safe, Legal, execution, direction, and coordination of all transportation matters for the site. This includes managing budgets, organising schedules & routes, ensuring that vehicles are safe and meet legal requirements, and making sure that drivers are aware of their duties and are trained to the relevant standard.

The Transport Operations Manager role is the departmental head of the Transport department as well as a key member of the site senior management team.

• Operating & achieving the transport budget.
• Ensuring legal Compliance to DVSA standards
• Experience of both internal and external audits
• Influencing, directing and supporting your management team to work to performance criteria and undertake the right activities that positively influence cost within the department.
• Leading, motivating and developing the Transport team members through performance management to raise performance standards and achieve KPI’s for cost, service and people.
• Challenging under performance and recognise good performance in equal measure.
• Collating KPI figures weekly and produce period end reports and action plans.
• Ensuring driver overtime and use of agency drivers and subcontractors are kept to a minimum.
• Repair and maintenance costs to be strictly monitored and controlled.
• Ensuring Best Practice to minimise fuel usage and maximise KPL.
• Monitoring and control absence.
• Maximising all forms of revenue.
• Ensuring supplier collections are made as planned.
• Achieving on time delivery performance.
• Ensuring effective communications both internally in Transport department, within the Distribution Centre and with Customers including Supply Chain and branches.
• Ensuring management team is regularly appraised and developed via personal development plans.
• Developing transport department Culture into a “Great Place to Work” atmosphere with Colleague engagement and inclusion a key focus.
• Implementing succession planning.
• Identifying training needs and design/implement training plans.
• Ensuring adherence to employment legislation and Company policy as required including; contracts of employment, discipline and grievance matters.

• Management experience within a unionised environment.
• Thorough knowledge of CPC accountabilities & the legislative requirements
• Experience of a customer service environment.
• Excellent PC and organisational skills.
• Methodical approach to figures and reporting.
• Understanding of people planning and scheduling processes.
• Knowledge of health safety and legislative requirements.
• Developing self and others.

Capabilities:

• Flexible with ability to work on own initiative.
• Innovative and change orientated/adaptable.
• Ability to work within a team environment.
• Numerate and Literate.
• Effective communicator at all levels with positive can do attitude.
• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to impact and influence.
• Decision-making and judgement.
• Well organised, able to plan and manage time effectively.
• Excellent influencing and communication skills.
• Coaching skills.
• Team player.
• Tenacious.
• ‘Can Do’ approach to work.

Qualifications/Knowledge/Experience

• CPC qualified.
• Minimum of 3 years senior manager experience in a best practice transport environment.

Booker is the UK's leading food & drink wholesaler. We are privileged to serve independent retailers, caterers and small businesses, from locations across the country. We operate over 190 cash and carry branches, 8 distribution centres, 5 Best Food Logistics sites, as well as 6 support centre locations across the UK.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) at Booker means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Booker and Best, we always welcome conversations about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers; some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we may be able to support you.

We’re proud that Booker is a Disability Confident Committed Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support you can expect, please contact recruitment@bookergroup.com

Please note

We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, and driving roles.

On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

*Booker Group is part of Tesco plc, however, is operated separately from the core Tesco business and as such the benefits offered will be different from those offered at Tesco*

For more information about us please visit www.bookergroupjobs.co.uk