Transport Team Manager – Nights Shift – Thurrock Depot

£38,750 - £42,625 per annum plus great benefits
Night Shift 9:30pm - 6am, 5 days over 7 including weekends - Full-time. Permanent.
West Thurrock CDC, Oliver Road, West Thurrock, RM20 3ED

We’re looking for a transport team manager to join our depot in Thurrock.

In this role you’ll be responsible for leading a team of drivers to make sure that our products are despatched from the depot and are delivered on time, safely and securely. You’ll inspire, coach and lead your team to meet a variety of performance measures and mentoring your team to perform at their best at all time. 

What you’ll do

• lead a team of drivers
• work towards critical success transport measures 
• mentor, engage and develop your team to be high performing at all times
• conduct performance reviews and manage performance for your  team
• manage sickness and absence
• review and log driver infringements 
• manage driver tachographs
• engage and build positive working relationships with various internal and external partners 

This role would suit someone who have:

• previously managed a team, preferably from a logistics or FMCG background
• the ability to work at pace and accuracy
• a great track record of reaching and exceeding critical performance measures 
• an understanding and have relevant knowledge of transport compliance 
• great planning skills and able to organise your own and teams workload 
• an understanding of how poor service can impact stores and customers 
• strong and confident communication skills
• excellent IT skills

At Co-op you’ll do work that matters, and you’ll be rewarded for your hard work with a competitive salary (including additional shift allowances) and a benefits package which includes holidays starting from 31 days per year (including bank holidays), 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores, a pension with up to 10% employer contributions, plus:

• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• YuLife – an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for many of the UK’s biggest brands
• Free employee assistance programme with extensive health, financial and wellbeing support
• Access to credit unions for loans and savings, plus rental deposit loans and season ticket loans
• Free eye tests every 2 years
• On-site facilities including a subsidised canteen and free parking

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.  

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job. 

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. 

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate. 

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process. 

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing. 

We reserve the right to remove a vacancy before the scheduled closing date.