Transport Planner

Transport Planner (Movement Planner) - Ongoing Temp minimum 4 weeks to Start ASAP
Salary: ?11.50ph
Location: Birmingham Central (B2)
Hours of Work: 40 Hours per week, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 6:00pm
We are looking for a smart and curious Movement Planner keen for a new challenge to join our client's expanding operations team in Birmingham City Centre. You will be responsible for ensuring that the company's growing number of drivers are fully productive & delivering great service. You will also need to use your knowledge & ability to identify opportunities for transporter agent partners to move vehicles in bulk. Linking up single-leg jobs is therefore critical to the company's success.
Duties:
. Pre-planning the days of full-time contracted drivers (40% of your week)
. Re-planning and updating plans of contracted drivers (10%)
. Allocating high-profile work for key customers to existing transporter agent network, and ensuring the agents perform the work as planned (30%)
. Grouping jobs together and identifying opportunities for transporter agents to move multiple vehicles in one job lot where possible (10%)
. Using this experience to feed back into the Operations Director, identifying and mapping out opportunities (10%) to improve software system
Candidate:
. Previous experience in a similar role is essential
. Experience of planning jobs for drivers and/or transport agents and maximising their productivity, or at least some route planning experience
. Highly computer literate and comfortable learning new IT systems. Client are a technology-led company, and we work exclusively on software and online platforms
. Desire to embrace change in the logistics industry. Company do not want to do things the same way as everyone else in the market
. Proven attention-to-detail. It is a fast-moving environment, and you'll need to be able to juggle multiple priorities successfully
. Any relevant further qualifications (e.g., CPC)