We are Fowler Welch – a multi award winning supply chain specialist working with retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers across the UK. We live by a simple set of values: to delight our customers, maximise our efficiency, be socially responsible and to promote being an employer of choice.

We are now recruiting for a Transport Plannerr on a full time, permanent basis at our Evesham site.

Shift: Any 5 from 7 days, 09.30-19.30

To work as part of the Evesham Transport team to organize the transport planning process by way of translating incoming orders via e-mail, fax or EDI once processed into ESP. Building into workable loads, giving consideration to specific customer requirements for delivery times and ensuring that temperature compliance is achievable. To plan within the budgetary and legal constraints laid out and ensuring that site KPI’s are maintained and exceeded wherever possible.

Key Duties:

• Ensuring that all deliveries are planned to customer requirements and achieved to in line with agreed service levels.
• Ensuring that all inbound collections are planned to customer requirements and achieved to in line with agreed service levels.
• Review and revisit communicated supplier volumes - estimates and actuals – to produce effective collection and delivery load plans reporting significant volume variances to management team on site.
• Proactively reprioritise base plan to maximise collection efficiency.
• Build base plan to maximise load fill and customer delivery on time restraints.
• Ensuring empty running is kept to a minimum and to agreed SLA/KPI’s
• Complete customer checklists to ensure no orders are missed daily.
• Record and report all incidents to customers as soon as they happen.
• Maintain department files – electronic and paper. Organize archive rotation where required.
• Maintain regular contact with customers and retailers and ensure planning information is current.
• Planning resource to deliver the plan utilizing own drivers, driver agencies and sub-contractors where appropriate
• Proactively identifying ways of maximising driver, vehicle and subcontractor resource
• Support the management of sub-contractors by ensuring that compliance is adhered to
• Dealing with and resolving all driver issues promptly and politely both over the telephone and face to face
• Complete ownership of tramper utilisation and planning
• Prevent EU Hours contraventions wherever possible. Raise alerts as necessary for drivers who may or already have contravened EU hours or Working Time regulations
• Effective and timely internal and external communications
• Proactively identifying ways of maximising driver, vehicle and subcontractor resource
• Cover duties of the Planning Team as necessary and within capabilities on request from line manager
• Ensure that tractors and trailers are planned for VOR, service, MOT etc in liaison with the Fleet Team.
• Escalate and resolve returns, ensuring pallets are processed and returned daily.

• Experience in transport planning for FMCG
• Experience of communicating via all available mediums
• Proven customer service experience
• Experience in administration
• Sound geographical knowledge
• Thoroughness and good attention to Detail
• Able to work alone or a part of a team
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

In return, we offer: 

• Free Fowler Welch Healthcare Cash Plan
• Free life insurance as a Fowler Welch employee equal to three times your basic salary.
• Competitive pension scheme
• ‘Cycle 2 Work’ Scheme – save up to 42% on the cost of a new bike and necessary equipment.
• Recognition schemes for our exceptional employees – monthly winners receive £100 of shopping vouchers.

When our staff have passion for what they do they work with more care and attention which is reflected to our clients, Click APPLY NOW to #JoinOurWinningTeam and begin your career today