Are you looking to add value with optimising delivery plans, balancing cost, service levels, and operational efficiency?

Are you passionate to resolve delivery challenges, enhance customer service, and drive continuous improvements in planning or logistics processes? If so, we at GXO have an opportunity for you!

Join us as our Transport Planner based in our Elland depot, for our customer Marshalls. You’ll be allocating specific vehicles with our driver colleagues, arranging for delivery of our product and ensuring processes are adhered to, whilst providing most cost-effective solutions with operational excellence.

This is a full time, permanent position with contracted hours of 40 per week. Monday to Friday with hours of 08:00 to 16:30 (ad-hoc flexibility for business needs, this is logistics after all!).

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £31,366 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Optimise delivery plans to maximise efficiency, ensure KPI performance, and minimise cost while maintaining strong customer service levels
• Act as the central link between Sales, Operations, Logistics, Driver Support and external hauliers, ensuring smooth communication and timely order fulfilment
• Manage customer delivery lead times (ATP) and ensure all systems are accurately maintained with up-to-date routing, resource availability and operational details
• Drive continuous improvement by analysing performance, producing KPI reports, identifying bottlenecks, and contributing to strategic planning and budgeting
• Build strong stakeholder relationships while supporting colleagues with training, problem-solving and collaborative enhancements to cost, service, and delivery processes

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Strong numerical, analytical and IT skills
• Proven experience in transport planning, with the ability to work independently, organise workload effectively and adapt to changing business needs
• Excellent communicator with strong written and verbal skills, confident engaging with senior management and acting as a link between Logistics, Sales and Operations
• Logical, detail-focused thinker who performs well under pressure and demonstrates a high level of commitment
• Skilled problem-solver with the ability to analyse information, make sound decisions, and maintain accuracy in a fast-paced environment

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GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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