Senior Transport Operations Manager

Location: East Midlands Gateway

Contract Type: Full time, permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary: £60,000 plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

About the Job

You will lead Transport contractual delivery, evolution, and development for the contracts within your area, ensuring the effective operation of the Transport function, and further develop integrated transport solutions to deliver a premium and cost‑effective service. You will produce, agree, and manage the budget, accounting for any variances, taking a proactive approach to fully engage any new initiatives at the depot, ensuring the integration of projects is successful in line with business needs. You will deliver operational and customer service excellence through innovation, continuous improvement, effective process management and effective leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective leadership and direction to the Transport Department
• Proactively seek optimisation without affecting service
• Actively promote and take responsibility for embedding a culture of employee engagement within your own teams and their direct reports
• Be accountable for setting operational objectives for your team in accordance with business plan and targets
• Drive quality of performance and shape the management team to deliver effective people management in line with policy and employment law regulations
• Be responsible for compliance with health and safety regulations and environmental and quality standards
• Integrate and control new cross‑dock clients where applicable
• Be responsible for the interface between every area of the operation to ensure efficiency and effectiveness
• Manage a group of approved 3rd party hauliers on national or international journey
• Propose, agree, and implement service standard agreements for products with customers in conjunction with other areas of the business
• Support Unipart in regard to reducing its carbon footprint, for example recycling initiatives
• Be the site lead for the Interface with all major customers including implementation meetings, customer reviews and other ad‑hoc meetings as required
• Be named and responsible for ensuring Unipart’s Operator Licence is maintained efficiently and accurately at all times, and carry out contingency planning to avoid exposure to the Operator Licences
• Be accountable for the delivery of continuous improvement initiatives
• Be accountable for the proactive management of new legislation
• Be accountable for performance against key KPI measures
• Lead the Retailer Interface in regard to Key supplier management for quality and cost
• Lead project success through the design, implementation and delivery of all breakthrough projects
• Accountable for embedding ‘The Unipart Way’ at all levels

About You

• Professional and confident communication skills
• Good management skills in terms of both contract and people management
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Planning and organising skills, high level of numeracy
• Negotiating skills, ability to influence and steer
• Leadership and motivational qualities and proven experience of building a team
• Personal motivation and confidence to have a positive impact
• Robust and resilient
• Able to work efficiently across the business and functional boundaries
• Commercially focussed and bottom‑line oriented
• Consumer oriented and customer‑service driven
• IOSH National CPC is a must, International CPC is an advantage

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity – all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

You may have experience in the following: Transport Operations Manager, Senior Logistics Manager, Transport General Manager, Distribution Operations Manager, Fleet Operations Manager, Transport Services Manager, Regional Transport Manager, Supply Chain Transport Lead.