Transport Planner

We have an exciting opportunity for a Transport Planner to join our friendly team at our Minworth site on a full time permanent basis! Salary: £30,690 per annum. Working hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. As a Transport Planner you will oversee the day to day planning of the transport operation. A highly motivated and driven individual, you will be experienced at working in a busy transport department, able to deal with day to day challenges and provide cost effective solutions to the customer. Key Duties of a Transport Planner: - Subcontracting and planning orders out of multiple warehouse facilities and manufacturing sites across the UK. - Planning daily workload for fleet: vehicles based on and off site. - Dealing with queries and issues by telephone, fax and email from our customers, sub-contract hauliers and warehousing sites. - Liaising with Traffic and Administration teams to ensure the highest standards of performance are maintained at all times. - Maintaining, creating and updating spreadsheets and databases for customer reports. - Reporting problems and dealing with issues and any queries that arise. - Support the fleet and driver training team as and when required. - Complete pre and post de-brief for all driver shifts. - Deliver effective, professional and timely internal and external communications. - Be able to demonstrate a high level of transport planning expertise in a busy and demanding environment. - Have excellent problem solving, analytical and organisational skills. - Be able to make decisions under pressure, and to a tight timescale. - Have a flexible and adaptable approach to working in order to meet the requirements of the business, particularly at peak periods during the year. - Be able to communicate well at all levels within the business. - Have the ability to identify and suggest improvements to benefit both the Company and our customer. - Be a highly motivated individual able to work as part of a small friendly team, and under own initiative. - Knowledge of SAP, BPCS and Road Runner would be advantageous.