TRANSPORT MANAGER - 2 PERSON DELIVERIES

Salary: c£47,000 + £5,400 car allowance + benefits (private medical, pension)
Location: Staffordshire (with multi-site responsibility for sites in Gloucester)
Are you an experienced Transport Manager or a rising logistics professional ready to take on a leadership challenge in a dynamic, multi-site rental logistics environment?
Our client is a fast-growing, international business specialising in the short- and long-term rental of large, high-value and critical equipment serving the retail and hospitality and catering and public and private sector. They are seeking a Transport Manager to lead and evolve their UK logistics operations, overseeing delivery and collection/reverse logistics activities across two key sites Staffordshire and Gloucestershire-to customers nationally and also coordination of international road and sea freight. It operates its own inhouse mixed fleet which includes artics, Hiabs and Luton vans and also uses third party transport hauliers too.
So this is a complex and evolving operation, with a mix of in-house fleet, subcontractors, manual planning tools, and a growing ambition for strategic transformation.

• Overseeing daily routing, scheduling, and resourcing for 2-person delivery teams, HGV, Luton and van fleet.
• Managing inbound and outbound logistics, including installations and return logistics.
• Leading and mentoring two Transport Supervisors, planning staff and drivers across the Staffordshire and Gloucestershire sites.
• Liaising with Project Managers, Warehouse, Asset, and Fleet teams to align schedules with client deployments.
• Developing and embedding SLAs with subcontractors and freight partners.
• Supporting international road and sea freight to locations including Dubai, the EU and beyond.
• Driving the implementation of route planning tools and delivery tracking integration with ERP.
• Ensuring full HGV transport compliance (tachographs, vehicle maintenance, driver hours).