A Transport Planner is required for a well known Seafood Import Company in Navan. Reporting to the Transport Manager you will carry out route planning and scheduling of trucks for multi-drop deliveries. Essentially you will take orders from a system, allocate the orders to trucks based on priority, geographical region and driver / truck availability and schedule in an efficient and effective manner.

Main areas of responsibilities:

• Arranging deliveries as per customer requirements.
• Liaise with approved suppliers to agree rate where necessary and ensure booking can be fulfilled.
• Agree additional rates where necessary.
• Analysing routing and distribution plans and identifying opportunities to optimise customer deliveries.
• Working closely with the National and International transport team to optimise the distribution network.
• Organise distribution assets to ensure maximum distribution efficiencies including usage of trucks and equipment whilst ensuring strict health and safety compliance.
• Work with drivers to ensure all deliveries completed as scheduled and rearrange as required on an urgent basis.
• Input data into the transport management system including costs for each activity.
• Optimise Customer relationships management to increase customer satisfaction, during normal deliveries and in the context of customer dissatisfaction.
• Provide first-class customer service to all our customers.
• Ensure IT systems and reports are utilised to maximise efficiencies.
• Support the administration of the company maintenance management systems.
• Cover is required for other distribution roles based in the same office.
• Assess telemetry requirements based on customer requirements.
• Additional duties as required.

Requirements:

• Min 3 years in multi-drop domestic transport and distribution planning.
• Leaving Certificate is essential. Logistics qualification is highly advantageous.
• French speaking would be an advantage.
• Excellent computer skills, particularly Microsoft Excel.
• Planning and organising, as well as flexibility and ability to work in a fast-paced changing environment.
• Strong teamwork skills and customer service.
• Flexibility to work on Saturdays as required.
• Interviews will be held via Zoom.

Salary – negotiable DOE.