Transport General Manager

At DHL Supply Chain, we're passionate about connecting people and improving lives through world-class logistics solutions. As a Transport General Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in leading a high-profile transport operation, ensuring outstanding service delivery while maintaining the highest standards of safety, compliance and operational excellence. This is an opportunity to influence performance at scale, lead experienced operational teams and make a genuine impact within one of the world's leading logistics organisations.

You'll join a business that invests heavily in its people, encourages innovation and empowers leaders to drive continuous improvement. Working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, you'll be responsible for delivering exceptional operational results, developing strong stakeholder relationships and creating an engaged, high-performing culture. With responsibility for a complex transport operation, this role is ideal for an experienced transport leader who combines strong people leadership with commercial awareness and a passion for operational excellence. An International Transport Manager CPC qualification is essential, along with proven experience managing fleet operations and ensuring full compliance with Operator Licence requirements and transport legislation.

A typical day may involve:

• Leading the day-to-day operation of a large-scale transport function, ensuring service, safety, quality and performance targets are consistently achieved across a fast-paced, 24/7 operation.
• Managing operational performance through the effective review of KPIs, fleet utilisation, transport planning, service delivery and continuous improvement activity.
• Providing visible leadership to transport managers, planners, drivers and support teams, creating a culture of accountability, engagement and operational excellence.
• Ensuring full compliance with Operator Licence requirements, transport legislation, health & safety standards and quality processes across the operation.
• Building strong working relationships with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure operational requirements are understood and delivered effectively.
• Driving financial performance through effective resource management, cost control, productivity improvement and delivering against budget expectations.
• Leading colleague engagement, succession planning and talent development initiatives to create a high-performing and inclusive transport operation.

This role would suit people who:

• Hold a valid International Transport Manager CPC qualification and have a strong understanding of Operator Licence compliance and transport legislation.
• Have significant experience managing large-scale transport operations, including fleet management, driver populations and operational delivery.
• Are commercially minded leaders who understand how operational decisions influence service, productivity and financial performance.
• Thrive in fast-moving logistics environments and can confidently balance customer expectations with operational priorities.
• Are natural motivators who can engage, develop and inspire teams while creating a positive and inclusive working culture.
• Enjoy working collaboratively with customers, operational teams and support functions to deliver outstanding results.
• Have a proven track record of driving continuous improvement, improving engagement and delivering sustainable operational performance.

Why join us?

• Company car or Car Allowance
• 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

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.

As proud supporters of the Armed Forces Covenant, we value the skills and experience of ex-service personnel and are dedicated to helping our veterans find jobs.

Please be aware that interviews are provisionally scheduled to take place during the week commencing 2nd November 2026. Applications received after this date may not be considered but will be added to our talent pool for future opportunities, subject to your consent. Please also be aware that we review applications continuously and where we have a large number of applications the application period may close ahead of the provisional interview date. To ensure your application is considered we recommend submitting it as early as possible.