Transport Management Programme

at  Musgrave

At Musgrave, we support thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses. Every day we feed one in three people in Ireland through 15 marketing leading food and beverage brands that include SuperValu, Centra, Daybreak, Mace and Musgrave MarketPlace. At Musgrave, our values and purpose challenge and inspire us to do the right thing, with a focus on practicing good, fair, and honest business, a commitment to profit with purpose and working relentlessly to innovate and lead the way in our market. The people who work in our warehouses, supply chain offices and transport teams are integral to making sure that food gets to where it needs to be, on time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
From our warehouse teams who are critical to ensuring stock levels and timely distribution, to our transport teams who manage one of the largest distribution networks across the island of Ireland, every area of this work is integral to our business and our brands.
As a Transport Management Programme participant, you will work with our team to ensure all stakeholders are fully engaged to deliver our agenda of Growing Good Business, which includes delivering excellent service to our retailers and ensuring we have an efficient operation that benchmarks ahead of industry. Our Supply Chain Programme is an important talent pipeline for our business in terms of developing the analytical, business, and interpersonal skills required to work in a progressive environment requiring operational planning, implementation and people management. This is an excellent opportunity for participants with a keen interest in the food and beverage retail/wholesale industry and who are results-driven, commercially focused and have a desire to drive business performance.
The scope of the role comprises a two-year experiential development programme for the purpose of developing you as a People Manager in our transport operations. To support your development and business knowledge, you will get experience working key teams and projects in our transport operations.
This role is focused on developing your knowledge, skills, and capabilities as a line manager in our transport operations. You will get experience of all Line Management operational functions within a transport environment and while ensuring an excellent service to our customer. This role may include shiftwork.
Other rotational experiences may arise due to business requirements and details of typical activities and responsibilities would be provided at that point. Efficient transport operations are critical to our business and as a Transport Management Programme participant, you will be immersed in understanding and developing the key skills to a successful operation.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Currently studying or have completed a degree in Logistics, Supply Chain or Business.

or

• Experience in working a high performing transport environment will be considered in lieu of a 3rd level qualification.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Problem solving and working well under pressure.
• Desire to work in a logistics-focused role in the food and beverage retail/wholesale industry.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to use data to inform decision-making.
• Strong influencing skills and the ability to manage challenging discussions for win-win outcomes.
• Microsoft Office experience
• Experience in using Excel.
• Ability to deliver to aggressive targets and timelines.
• Prioritisation skills to manage workload and competing demands.
• Full Driver’s licence and own transport is required

• Supporting line managers to deliver our key priorities in managing, leading and developing our transport teams.
• Delivering excellent customer service with on-time deliveries, combi presentation and delivering on daily/weekly Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Supporting the direction and motivation of transport colleagues in meeting operational goals in an environment where customer satisfaction is critical.
• Supporting the delivery of the engagement framework through the engagement tools to create high performing teams, continuous improvement, and a high performing culture.
• Developing your knowledge to use appropriate resources, which in turn will maximise efficiency, effectiveness and productivity.
• Implementing key improvement initiatives in productivity, capacity, and environmental awareness.
• In Supply Chain, you will learn to assess and ensure compliance with all Health & Safety obligations.