Transport Capacity Specialist (York, YN, GB, YO31 8TA)

Business Area: Supply Chain

Location: York

Salary from £27,000, depending on experience and qualifications

Some of our other fantastic benefits:

• Potential, discretionary annual bonus
• Generous pension scheme – up to 5% contribution from Nestlé
• 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement
• 2 paid volunteering days

Although this is a full-time opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working.

The York head office is home to Nestlé’s first European Transport Hub (THub). The THub has responsibility for planning and executing Nestlé’s road transportation within Europe, simplifying and standardising our European transportation processes. We manage the transport of finished goods between Nestlé‘s European factories and distribution centres, as well as inbound raw and packaging materials from our major supplier.

We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity. We proudly signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, are committed to Disability Confidence, and have been recognised as a Times Top 50 Employer for gender equality for three consecutive years. Additionally, we are a headline partner of Diversity and Inclusion in grocery.

As one of the major actors in the UK and Ireland’s food industry, our supply chain really is at the heart of all operations at Nestlé from sourcing raw materials right through to delivering the end product to our customer. Working closely with these customers and our internal colleagues, we are able to manage one of the FMCG industry’s most complex and sophisticated value chains, putting the consumer at the heart of everything we do.

Your impact:

As part of the Planning and Scheduling team, you will be responsible for ensuring all loads requested by our internal customers have assigned hauliers, minimising transportation cost whilst respecting the commitments made in the tender process and driving the usage of sustainable solutions. Your role will include haulier relationship management, haulier assignment, liaising with our procurement team and supporting cost-and-service-based optimisation activities for Nestlé.

Responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring all transports planned have carriers assigned with agreed rates, minimising cost, and ensuring compliance to agreed business shares and volumes
• Engaging with the tendered hauliers relating to unassigned shipments, working with them to ensure tender commitments are met (and wherever not, ensuring we understand the issues).
• Work cross-functionally to drive the utilisation of procured intermodal transportation solutions to help the business in delivering on its sustainability ambitions.
• Identifying gaps between transport demand and current market capacity and then working with our procurement team to find solutions that allow us to maintain service levels at an acceptable cost
• Acting as an operational point of contact for enquiries from both hauliers and our customer markets with regards possible transport issues and opportunities.
• Provide support to the wider End-to-End team by responding to service failures and finding alternative solutions in order to minimise further impact on service.
• Supporting the focus on accurate system set up and master data to ensure we are able to efficiently complete freight settlement activities and pay our hauliers on time.

Your ingredients for success:

You will understand distribution end-to-end processes and will have worked in a similar role with experience in either international or domestic transport. Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships across various functions and markets are key; along with the ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders. The ability to speak/write other European languages in addition to English would be advantageous however not essential.

You will also:

• Be able to deal with multiple tasks at any one time and be able to effectively prioritise them based on multiple inputs
• Have experience of dealing with suppliers and/or service providers and be able to use available data to help challenge and resolve performance issues
• Understand cost vs. service trade off

What you need to know:

Advert posting date: 22/04/2026

Advert closing date: 06/05/2026

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect and we believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment allows everyone to reach their full potential and drives innovative thinking. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodations to ensure your full participation in the application process.

To find out more about Nestlé’s commitment to DEI: Nestlé's Commitment to a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace