We have an exciting opportunity to join our Operations team as a Transport Manager. We are looking for a strong team player with the experience to manage and support the Transport activity within our business to help drive our business strategy. With growth plans for 2023 and beyond it is an exciting time to join Vegetarian Express.
Salary: Competitive salary and dependant on experience
Benefits: 25 days holiday, NEST pension, bonus, life assurance, Cash Health Plan
Based: Watford, WD24 7RY
Hours of work: 40 hours per week (07:00 to 15:30)
Main purpose of role:
To be responsible for directing, coordinating, planning and overseeing tasks and operations within Vegetarian Express involving all transportation activities. To ensure the legal requirements for transport are met. Ensure HR management is compliant and aligned to the company policies.
To manage and be responsible for the company’s overall supply logistics strategy in order to maximise the process efficiency and productivity. To be the ‘gate keeper’ of all transport processes and procedures providing consistent and robust advice, communicating clearly on requirements to the business, at all levels.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Manage, direct and monitor transport and the overall performance of the transport department to increase efficiency and maximise service, performance, value and profit
- Ensuring that the transport team understands their duties and their role within the organisation.
- Develop new initiatives and look for new ways to optimise the transport activities
- Contribute to training and development of the team and organisation as a whole
- Ensuring that all drivers and operators have the correct, up to date qualifications
- Assist in achieving maximum “customer” satisfaction in accordance with organisation plans
- Continuous review and implementing changes to ensure that Vegetarian Express has an effective and efficient transport routing process, maximising internal resource and minimising cost
- Reducing delivery delays and cost, through working collaboratively with our partners, where partners are required
- Supporting sustainability, business growth & margin
- Evaluate and report on KPIs within the team.
Skills/competency requirements
- Customer focused
- Resilience and ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment
- The ability to effectively manage internal and external relationships
- The ability to influence at all levels, both internally and externally
- Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
- Team player ‘one team’ approach
- Proven influencing skills
- Good time-management skills
- Great interpersonal and communication skills
Knowledge
- Good knowledge of transport methods, costs and benefits
- Experience in managing business change
- Project management experience
Experience
- Minimum of five years’ experience in a Transport Manager or Transport Supervisor role in a FMCG environment
- Supply Chain experience, ideally in an FMCG environment
About Vegetarian Express:
Vegetarian Express specialise in delivering plant-based ingredients, ideas and inspiration to chefs across the UK for eating out of home. With the astronomical rise in popularity of plant-based, vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, Vegetarian Express are uniquely placed in Foodservice to meet with this demand, and as such are rapidly growing and expanding.
Nationally they supply more than 4,000 skilled chefs from customers such as Compass, Baxterstorey and CH&Co, as well as a ton of Independent operators. Vegetarian Express work with customers to create plant-based menus that are enticing, better for consumers health, the planet and commercially for businesses.
Vegetarian Express are proud to be a certified B Corporation. This means they are part of a growing number of progressive businesses around the world that truly believe in the power of business to do good things and, more importantly, are doing something about it.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Logistics Manager, Distribution Controller, Fleet Manager, Transport Manager, Logistics Supervisor, Fleet Supervisor, Transport Supervisor, Logistics coordinator, Transportation Manager, Freight Manager, Transport Planner, Supply Chain Controller, Cargo Manager, Transport Coordinator may also be considered for this role
