Senior Logistics Manager (Transport Planning)
Derby, England, United Kingdom · Posted 4 months agoDescription
About The Team:
The Senior Logistics Transport Manager has end-to-end responsibility for the transport function, owning the overall P&L, service performance, and strategic design of the transport network. Covering final mile, middle mile, inter-site transfers, and supplier inbound collections, this role is accountable for reducing total transport cost while improving service, efficiency, and customer experience.
This is a senior leadership role combining strategy, network design, commercial management, and hands-on operational management , with responsibility for people, partners, and systems (TMS/YMS)
What You Will Be Doing:
- Full P&L ownership for the transport function, with accountability for budget setting, forecasting, and cost control.
- Lead transport network design and optimisation, ensuring the most efficient use of locations, routes, and linehaul.
- Own the middle mile haulage strategy, including carrier selection, contract negotiation, and performance management.
- Manage commercial relationships with haulage partners, ensuring service, cost, and compliance expectations are met.
- Act as the business owner for Transport Management System (TMS) working together with our global technical teams for development and implementation of improvements.
- Provide senior management across final mile multidrop routes, intersite transfers, inbound collections, and middle mile haulage.
- Plan and route our B2C final mile multidrop delivery routes, ensuring optimal route efficiency, cost control, and excellent customer experience.
- Plan Ex Works supplier collections ensuring robust & scalable solutions including contingency measures
- Coordinate intersite transfers to ensure timely and efficient movement of stock between production locations.
- Manage and schedule of inbound & outbound collections, working closely with suppliers, carriers and internal teams to prevent site congestion.
- Leverage strong UK road network knowledge to plan effective routes and mitigate risks such as congestion, road restrictions, and delays.
- Lead, develop, and manage the transport team, setting clear objectives driving high performance standards.
Who You Are:
- Proven experience in a senior transport management role with P&L responsibility.
- Proven experience managing and planning multidrop B2C delivery operations with a focus on efficiency and cost control.
- Strong understanding of UK transport networks, final mile, middle mile, and linehaul operations.
- Demonstrated success in reducing transport cost through network optimisation, commercial negotiation, and operational efficiency.
- Experience managing haulage contracts and third-party transport providers.
- Hands-on experience owning or managing TMS and YMS platforms.
- Strong people leadership experience, managing managers and teams.
- CPC qualification
What you will get in return:
- 70% off HelloFresh or Green Chef boxes
- Company pension scheme
- Gym membership
- Bupa private medical insurance (including dental & family cover options)
- Mental health first aiders and an employee assistance programme
- Nursery support scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Group Life Assurance
Location: HelloFresh UK, Unit 2, Collaboration Way, Smartparc, Derby, DE21 7HW
Shifts: Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm
Next steps: Your application will be reviewed and if successful, a member of the Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch within 2 weeks.
You are required to cooperate with HelloFresh in all health and safety matters. You are responsible for ensuring you take reasonable care of your own health, and safety as well as others who may be affected by the work activities you undertake. You must report incidents immediately and actively raise health and safety-related concerns to your Line Manager. As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and secure environment, we will process Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks to the successful individual. Failure to disclose relevant information at application or throughout the process could affect your employment with the company.
To be considered for this role, you’ll need to have the independent right to work in the UK, as we're unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship at this time.
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