Transport Planner

2 weeks ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Goodman Fielder Full time

**Bring your Transport/Logistics experience within an FMCG environment**:

- **Knowledge of NZ Road Transport Law required and SAP would be an advantage**:

- **Great team culture and genuine career prospects**

At Goodman Fielder our purpose is making everyday food, better for everyone. We own a host of iconic brands that generations of Kiwis have grown up with and put in their supermarket trolleys every week. We are a team that believes that anything is possible. A team that understands our business and focuses on the right things that make the biggest difference and one that considers our end to end value chain when making decisions to optimize our business.

**Our Opportunity**

The position of Transport Planner is to ensure the efficient and cost-effective movement of GFNZ's freight volumes as guided by the Transport Strategy.

Key responsibilities include:

- From data created by production sites, ensure each load is manifested accurately and above minimum utilization levels
- Communicate to production sites and transport providers load allocations for both inbound and outbound loads
- Monitor, record and report actual utilisation versus target levels
- Participate in the investigation of negative and positive variances with the Transport Manager
- Participate in the identification of opportunities and efficiencies with in the Supply Chain at GF
- Ensure all SH&E requirements are completed including workplace incident reporting, WALKS, TALK'S CARE Process, Environmental, Food Safety are adhered to as per GF requirements
- Working with the Transport Manager, to be the “Go To” co-ordinator for internal/external freight movements
- Ensure SOP's are current processes are adhered too
- Ensure appropriate levels of communication to both internal and external customers are achieved and responded to with agreed timeframes
- Service delivery performance is maintained at a high standard, ensuring DIFOTIS targets are consistently achieved or exceeded
- Reliable point of contact for GFNZ business units for Transport movement and network issues.
- Management of internal and external Transport providers

**About You**

We're looking for someone with the following skills and experience to join us:

- Transport/Logistics experience within an FMCG environment
- Contractor Management
- Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, SAP and E-Road
- Knowledge of NZ Road Transport Law
- Experience of working with a Transport Management System
- Food Safety Knowledge
- Flexibility as this is a 7 day a week industry

**What we offer**

You will be joining a driven team of professionals who genuinely enjoy working together, resulting in a highly collaborative environment. In return for your passion and success, we will reward you with a competitive remuneration package and help you to achieve personal and professional growth and development.

At Goodman Fielder, we aim to be a destination employer in the food industry where we don't just offer jobs - we offer long term careers.

For more information about us or to learn about other roles available at Goodman Fielder, please visit our careers page and register your details so that we can notify you of jobs which interest you.

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