Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!
At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations: -
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
The Opportunity
In this role you will be responsible for supporting the planning team to enable delivering the timely generation of accurate schedules for the radial delivery, shunts and trunking. Responsible for the safe, efficient and cost effective execution of all planning tasks, whilst ensuring the planning team are working to the required standards, individually and as a whole.
Responsible for administering the planning function when on shift ensuring the efficient and cost effective management of all operational activities in this area. Ensuring all KPI measures and key tasks are continually met and exceeded.
Key Responsibilities :
- Balance fleet utilisation versus requirement, support planner with additional sub-contraction as required
- Identify any issues and/or potential problems and opportunities and manage these through to resolution.
- Identify proactive opportunities to improve the plan and DOT performance. Identify ways to make efficiency improvements.
- Working as part of the planning team to ensure the correct standards of work are maintained and assisting with continuous improvement initiatives which will benefit the department and its customers
- Respond to and acknowledge plan issues and take corrective action to avoid recurrence. Take on board and implement sound suggestions for efficiency improvements.
- Ensure that effective communication processes are in place to promote the regular and effective communication to the team and business.
- Ensure planning efficiency in line with O Licence undertakings.
- Cover other areas of the planning department during absence.
- Own all planning activity to achieve departmental KPIs.
- Raise Purchase orders for sub-contractors
The Ideal Candidate
We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience: -
- Able to operate effectively in a high volume service driven transport operation
- Take ownership for own and team’s performance
- Excellent communication skills – Planning Manager / Operations Managers / Planning Team / Transport Supervisors / Warehouse Supervisors / External companies
- Experience of working within an FMCG environment
- Able to work to time sensitive deadlines and prioritise work
- An understanding of a target driven environment
- Good numeracy, spoken and written communication skills
- Strong IT skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, Transport Management Systems)
We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.
Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!