Transport Manager

Transport Manager
Scunthorpe
£40k-£50k plus bonus
Are you a strategic and hands-on transport professional with a passion for operational excellence? Do you have CPC? My client is currently seeking an experienced Transport Manager to lead their transport planning and logistics operations, ensuring high performance, compliance, and customer satisfaction.
In this pivotal role, you’ll be responsible for managing vehicle routing, driver productivity, and transport efficiency, while also developing your team and driving continuous improvement across the operation.
The role:
• Manage vehicle routes, delivery times and transport costs
• Coordinate and control the order cycle, ensuring that orders are prioritised correctly and processed on time
• To ensure customer expectations and transport efficiency targets are met on regular bases.
• Safe management of drivers
• Optimise transport efficiencies.
• To extract and analyse daily/weekly performance reports, evaluating the performance and quality of both internal and third-party logistics suppliers
• Manage and improve office staff by creating KPI’s and improvement plans if required
• Develop business by analysing logistical problems and producing solutions
• Continually try to improve and develop business performance within the constraints of legislation, fuel costs and rising environmental pressures
• Understand and implement Company Health and Safety procedures
Measures of success:
• Timely provision of KPI’s
• Efficient planning/routing
• Optimum and efficient management of Transport Fleet
• Fleet and Drivers are legally compliant
• Accurate weekly/monthly data provision
Qualifications
• Certificate of Professional Competence - essential
• Health and Safety qualification (NEBOSH/IOSH) Preferred
If you’re a results-driven professional looking to make a tangible impact, we want to hear from you