Transport Planning & Strategy Manager

John Lewis Partnership; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 78,000

Job description

Apply on JLP Jobs - the official careers website for John Lewis Partnership, John Lewis & Partners, and Waitrose & Partners.

Salary: £48,800 - £77,900

Contract type: This position is a Permanent contract.

Working pattern/flexible working: The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business.

Location: This role is based at our Bracknell Head Office with expectation to travel to other sites as required.

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead regular and dynamic schedule reviews to deliver continuous improvement and ensure agility in the plans to take account of changes and to deliver ongoing optimisation and benefits.
2. Ownership of the network Transport Management Systems, working closely with IT, to ensure optimised functionality and effective usage across the network.
3. Own strategic transport analysis utilising and providing data to enable continuous improvement, ensuring best in class transport operations and branch service.
4. Identify and create the future strategy, using industry insight and experience, for planning solutions and delivery execution that provides optimised operations and service levels.
5. Lead the implementation and embedding of the delivery strategy through effective engagement with stakeholders, end users and customers.

Essential Skills/Experience

1. Strong analytical skills, experience of supply chain modelling and business costing.
2. Understanding and prior experience of using Transport Management Systems and modelling tools.
3. Strong stakeholder management skills, ability to engage and influence at all levels internally and externally.
4. Ability to translate business strategy into clear communication plans, objectives, actions and required behaviours.
5. Effective solution design and the use of data and analytics to develop realistic, robust solutions.
6. Strong working knowledge and experience of large scale, fast moving supply chain operations.
7. Ability to think strategically and to drive execution across a large network of diverse teams.
8. Clear, high quality presentation of complex subjects - both written and verbal.

To lead the Central Planning Team to create and implement a long term strategic approach to national transport planning for the Distribution network. In addition, to provide daily schedules for all sites across the network that optimise routes to maximise Driver and fleet utilisation and enable cost effective Transport operations.

The successful candidate in this role will have experience of leading centralised/national transport planning teams and functions, possess in depth knowledge of transport planning tools (ideally Paragon) and have experience of optimising Transport delivery schedules and Driver working patterns to create optimal delivery plans for seasonal peak periods as well as BAU daily plans.