Transport Manager - North East

You will need to be based in North East England for this role.

The Transport Manager role holds responsibility for ensuring the fleet of vehicles within a designated region are fully compliant.

What you'll be doing

• You will have responsibility for a fleet of vehicles within a designated geographic region ensuring that these vehicles are fully compliant through a combination of field and office-based activities.
• Support the Head of Compliance by driving day to day compliance under the Group's "operator licence" within your region.
• Build working relationships with drivers and operational managers to ensure best practice and legal compliance.
• Work closely with the retained fleet organisation to ensure our fleet maintenance supplier deliver on their contractual compliance commitments.
• Communicate with drivers and senior leaders across fleet and be part of a bigger team of transport managers, effectively collaborating to ensure compliance.

The skills you'll need

• CPC Qualification
• Experience in the transport industry or transferrable skills within compliance
• Experience of fleet management across a varied fleet including heavy goods, light vehicles and plant.
• Able to work collaboratively, building trust, delegating, and negotiating with stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Comfortable implementing the right course of action to ensure compliance and safety across the fleet.

Benefits

• 10% discretionary company bonus
• Huge discounts on EE & BT products including your Mobile and Broadband – saving you hundreds of pounds every year.
• Optional Private Healthcare and Dental, for you and the family
• A share scheme where you can invest in the company at a discounted rate.
• 25 days holiday with the option to buy more.
• Optional Pension scheme to protect your future.
• Critical Illness cover
• Discounts off attractions for the family all year round.

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.