Planning Manager (National)
Unipart Group Nuneaton
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National Planning Manager
Nuneaton
£67,500 per annum, plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Job
As National Planning Manager you will be responsible for arranging the delivery of the customer’s product on time and in fullusing the most cost-effective means and best use of available resources, whilst complying with Transport Legislation and Health &
Safety. You will ensure maximisation of the utilisation of the Fleet through efficient planning of deliveries and collections as
well as maximised utilisation of Unipart drivers in line with current driver’s hours and WTD legislation. You will also provide
analytical insight into the performance of the fleet based on the planning and execution and develop initiatives in parallel.
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:
- Plan all customer deliveries utilising the software available at site to ensure delivery windows are met.
- Planning daily workload for a fleet nationally
- Implement new operating processes
- Develop back haul lanes and support in the planning of supplier collections across the fleet.
- Source appropriate and cost effective sub-contractors to ensure any additional volume is serviced in line with the contractual
- Complete a late load report in line with operational requirements and deadlines.
- Ensure loads meet safety standards.
- Own metrics and performance indicators related to initiatives to measure overall performance and provide foundation for value
- Communicate in a clear, precise, and regular format with all partners and stakeholders, including ongoing project status
- Administer flow of information to ensure invoices and claims can be quickly and effectively reconciled.
About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in thisrole!
- Transport Planning experience
- A thorough level of knowledge and experience of road transport regulatory and legislative frameworks is essential and you will
- An understanding of Transport and/or Distribution
- Experience of working in a busy transport/distribution environment
- Excellent communication skills,
- Experience with SAP – desirable
- Knowledge of Transport Legislation, Working Time Directive and Drivers Hours
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of
opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on thegrounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or
civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected
characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment
which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of
yourself and do your best work every day.
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