Trailer Operations Manager

A position has come up for a client located near to Heathrow, Mon to Fri and ideally looking for the following qualities:

2-5 years' experience in transportation operations or management

Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, or related field preferred

Supervisory experience is preferred

Salary up to 60k

Summary of role:

Responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating, and communicating all operating schedules to support ground network. Responsible for developing and maintaining planned routing for all products moving within the ground network. Responsible for supervising support team to oversee all trucking operating supporting the Road Transport. Supervising around 6 staff

Duties Include:

• Maintain all routes and rates for all linehaul activity
• Manage all routing schemes, label requirements, transit schedules, arrival and departure schedules
• Work with branch and product management for timely network updates, and communication of network changes.
• Create, manage, and communicate all holiday service and operating schedules with service providers and branches
• Develop tools and audits for routing accuracy
• Track all lanes and unit costs & develop costing forecasts by lane
• Support development of activity based costing models
• Support all continuous quality improvements and cost control initiatives
• Supports market and potential supplier research
• Monitor capacity and daily demand on all scheduled routes. Develop and implement contingencies, for overload situations.
• Supports capacity solutions of network growth and surges, maintains and adjust stand-by equipment as necessary.