Senior Transport Planner

Role: Senior Transport Planner

Location: North Dublin

Own Transport required

Monday to Friday – flexibility required to work on a Saturday from time to time if required.

Salary: €45k

Role Requirements:

• Planning of domestic vehicles for Transport of Domestic, Road Freight & Logistics customers
• Monitoring of vehicle utilization, trunking performance and load planning
• Work with the transport department to manage costs and work on weekly transport profit and loss report
• Look at transport cost effectiveness and vehicle utilisation
• Price and negotiate rates with suppliers
• Look at solutions in the transport network and ways to maintain our service levels
• Manage transport administration and update collection/delivery status
• Monitor and deal with transport queries by liaising with other depots and departments
• Proactively liaise with warehouse and drivers to ensure a high-quality service
• Respond to enquiries and reported problems, bringing them to a satisfactory conclusion
• Completion of data within company systems in a timely, efficient and accurate manner
• Processing of new job data as received from customers by mail, spreadsheet or EDI
• Application of customer rates and supplier charges where required
• Communicate with warehouse and yard man on in bound trailer arrivals and offloading process in line with customs procedures
• Handle customers shipment tracking enquiries in a professional manner
• Relay customer service queries and issues to related teams and follow-up completion
• Ensure transport routing and gps system is working being used at all times for distribution fleet based in Dublin

Candidate Requirements:

• 3 years plus experience working in a senior transport role
• CPC holder would be an advantage
• 3rd level qualification would be advantageous
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
• Self-motivated with good communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team and be accountable for tasks and actions
• Knowledge of transport P&L and cost analysis in the market place
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Excellent Communication skills

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