Hall's is a fast-growing transport company specialising in refrigerated transport and logistics. We're well established across New Zealand, with a high profile and a focus on providing top customer service. 

Our committed drivers and teams represent typical New Zealand values and work hard to service our customers and 'deliver the goods'.

We’re proud of the work we do and passionate about making a real difference to people's lives.

At Hall's we want all our staff to go home safely every day. To help achieve this, we have a comprehensive Health and Safety Plan in place to protect us all, including pre-employment medicals and drug testing.

We’re passionate about our role in delivering the finest of Kiwi food, and it’s our people in depots and out on the road every day who work vigilantly to ensure the safety and freshness of the product we store or deliver. Our people drive our business, literally!

If you have a great work ethic and want to be a part of a strong team, then come and join us at Hall's. Whilst you won’t be on the road, your energy and focus will be on both forward and day to day planning and dispatch of the transport network to ensure that base run capacity is optimised and where necessary floating/additional capacity is applied in the most cost-effective manner.

What would you be doing?  

• Understand and take responsibility for the Transport Operations processes, ensuring staff members have the opportunity to succeed in their tasks, create a quality improvement platform, install Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Leading the Planning & Dispatch team of 10 to be high performing and engaged
• Ensure team have clear objectives, regular performance reviews and are held accountable for execution of KPIs
• Drive functional excellence and process improvement within the team and across Operations
• Understand SOG and POD processes for Hall's, and manage exceptions with company, Owner Operator, and Subcontractors
• Through effective planning and dispatch processes and controls, ensure that base fleet runs are optimised including the stand down of regular runs where the freight can be accommodated onto other services
• Collaborate across functions to deliver to business financial targets
• Work proactively with Transport Operations, Fleet, Network design and Sales
• In collaboration with Sales, work with customers to understand key business drivers and needs to identify new business opportunities and promote innovative logistics solutions

What you'll need to be brilliant:  

5+ years’ experience within transport industry encompassing:

• Intimate knowledge of the New Zealand refrigerated freight network
• Successful background in transport dispatch 
• People leadership and team development
• Demonstration of commercial acumen in a transport and/or FMCG environment
• Experience streamlining and implementing processes
• Track record in delivering financial / business KPIs

What Hall’s can offer you!  

• Career stability and the opportunity to develop within a growing company! 
• Access to PERKS app - offering discounts in 40+ stores
• Discounted Southern Cross Healthcare
• The opportunity to work with a talented supportive team 
• A safety focused environment - all appropriate PPE provided
• A standard work week; Monday to Friday, 7am - 5pm

If you think this sounds like the place for you, we'd love to hear from you!  Hall's Group the home of cool jobs. www.halls.co.nz