Transport Team Leader

Job Location - St Edmunds Distribution centre, Suffolk Park, Fortress way, Bury Saint Edmunds IP32 7FQ, UK

Monday – Wednesday (3 days) 8hrs per day

As a Transport Team Leader within a busy transport management team, you will be responsible for day-to-day operational activities within the transport department ensuring our customers receive best in class service from your team. 

As a line manager, you will be creating an engaged, motivated, performance-driven team with Greene King’s values at the core of everything we do.

Operationally, you will be managing a team of driver/dray crews, producing transport plans, line management and ensuring the Distribution Centre operates within its legislative and budgetary obligations. 

This is an operational role with a twist, alongside the day to day, you will be involved in challenging the status quo by proposing new ways of working, looking at new technologies and bringing in fresh and innovative ideas to help our transport operation keep pace with our ever-changing industry.

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

Your role as Transport Team Leader

• Line management responsibility
• Strategically deploy resource to ensure maximum service levels adherence with minimal cost impact
• Delivering performance to meet operational Key Performance Indicators for service, quality, health, safety and environment
• Ensure customer expectations are met at all times
• Support the Transport Manager with forward planning, inputting into the plan and execution of any transport related projects  
• Ensure compliance with working time and drivers hours regulations

What you’ll bring… 

• Target and performance driven, focused on delivering results
• Experienced people manager
• Strong communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels both internally and externally
• Strong planning, organisational and time management skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office specifically Excel
• Ability to lead, motivate and engage a multi-disciplined team
• Able to make decisions in a fast paced environment
• Drive, enthusiasm and a positive, flexible attitude
• Resilient under pressure able to meet deadlines whilst adapting quickly when confronted with unforeseen work demands
• Able to manage conflicting priorities  

Closing date Friday 20th June.