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A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced CPC qualified Transport Manager with sound commercial and operational expertise. The client is highly customer centric and the business is part of a dynamic, successful and highly people oriented growing international organisation. They are keen to hear from ambitious, well-educated individuals who are forward thinking, innovative and career minded. You will be committed to leading teams, developing talent and making the role your own. This is an excellent platform from which to really drive the business forward within a business that can provide opportunity for genuine career development.

Whilst you may not know the products and services, each day the company works with businesses that are impacting the lives of millions of people in the UK. It is an ambitious, financially secure organisation, with a clear strategy to grow the UK service industry with an unrelenting desire to become an employer of choice. They truly see people as their biggest asset.

To give you a feel for their ethics and commitment, the company achieved the PLATINUM level of Ecovadis positioning them among the Top 1% of the 125,000 companies assessed by Ecovadis, meaning a commitment to minimising environmental impact with their approach to use the circular economy model.

The opportunity would suit a customer focused Transport Management professional who not only demonstrates commercial and financial acumen but also possess exceptional operational expertise in respect of ensuring that the site runs as efficiently as possible. It is important that you have an enquiring mind, are detail oriented, and are constantly looking at opportunities for continuous improvement. This will extend throughout all areas of the business to include operations, sales, customer satisfaction, H&S, leadership and the people agenda. You will be detail oriented and hold exacting standards when it comes to quality and compliance. Ideally you will have held P&L responsibilities and it would be an advantage if you have relevant H&S certificates (NEBOSH, IOSH).

The scope of this role is wide and varied and your man-management expertise cannot be underestimated; you will be a naturally energetic, motivational leader with drive and passion in what you do, capable of creating a collaborative team work ethic and an environment in which people feel they are really part of the success of the business.

You will inspire a culture based upon teamwork, recognising and rewarding exceptional performance and conversely addressing any areas of below standard performance consistently and fairly. Exceptional communication skills and an ability to give direction will be essential.

This is a great platform from which to further your management career in a business that is passionate about their people and quality of service and who can truly offer exceptional career progression in a dynamic, organisation.

Send you CV for immediate consideration.

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Location: Hemel Hempstead
Salary: 48,000 - 55,000 + benefits
We are working with a leading distribution centre in Hemel Hempstead to recruit a dynamic and experienced Transport Manager . This is a pivotal leadership role, reporting directly to the General Manager, and responsible for overseeing a busy transport operation with a fleet of Class 1 and Class 2 vehicles.
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of Managers, Drivers, Trainers, and Admin staff.
• Ensure full legal compliance with DVSA standards and internal audit requirements.
• Drive performance across cost, service, and people KPIs.
• Manage budgets, control costs (including fuel, maintenance, and agency usage), and maximise revenue.
• Deliver on-time performance and maintain strong communication across departments and with external stakeholders.
• Foster a positive, inclusive team culture with a focus on colleague engagement and succession planning.

Requirements:

• Valid Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) .
• Proven experience in transport operations management within a fast-paced, customer centric distribution environment.
• Strong leadership, communication, and performance management skills.
• Ability to influence and support a diverse team while maintaining compliance and operational excellence.

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Transport Manager

Lloyd Recruitment Services are working with a leading construction company, who are looking to hire a Transport Manager to join their growing team.

You'll play a vital part in overseeing daily operations, ensuring smooth and safe processes are maintained. With plenty of variety, responsibility, and the chance to make a real impact, this role is perfect for someone who thrives in a hands-on environment and is looking to take the next step in their transport or logistics career.

As Transport Manager, you'll be responsible for:

• Managing the safe loading and unloading of a small fleet of vehicles
• Overseeing a team of drivers
• Coordinating daily route planning
• Managing forklifts on site
• Ensuring compliance with transport regulations
• Maintaining high standards of health & safety
• Keeping up to date with fleet maintenance and supporting operational efficiency

This is a site-based, full-time role that offers stability, variety, and the chance to make a real impact within a close-knit team.

The right candidate will have:

• Minimum 2 years' experience in a transport management role
• A solid understanding of logistics, fleet compliance, and health & safety regulations
• Excellent organisational skills and a hands-on approach

What's on Offer:

• Competitive salary between 35,000 - 45,000 DOE
• Supportive team environment
• Opportunity to join a well-established and growing business
• Standard daytime working hours - no weekends!

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Transport Manager

Salary 40,000, Avonmouth BS11, 28 days holiday incl

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Transport Manager to join our client, a leading Health & Beauty Supplier. This role will be a temporary role, potentially leading to a permanent position in the future.

The Transport Manager holds the primary responsibility for overseeing all aspects of transport operations. This includes managing outbound shipments and trunking activities between distribution centres and third-party hub sites. A key focus is ensuring that store deliveries are punctual and complete, which is monitored through system data and feedback from stores, all within an established budget. The role also involves motivating and leading the transport teams to adopt best practices and achieve logistical excellence. By doing so, the Transport Manager helps ensure that stores maximise product availability, thereby enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty. The position requires a strategic approach to logistics management, continuous improvement in operational efficiency, and effective team leadership to meet organisational goals and customer expectations.

As an active member of the senior management team, your focus on building and maintaining a motivated and skilled team, is key. It will be your responsibility is to oversee the daily operations of the team, ensuring efficient and effective performance. You will be guiding their activities, fostering a collaborative environment that promotes continuous improvement, developing a positive and dynamic organisational culture & encouraging team members to innovate and adapt to changing circumstances.

Key Responsibilities

• To maintain a transport operation which meets all relevant legal obligations and company standards of operation, including but not limited to:

Safety and Compliance – as the site-specific O Licence Holder, ensuring Health & Safety & Legal Compliance across your department

Security - To effectively manage security of property, product and transport assets through consistent delivery of agreed protocols.

Service and Delivery Performance – working collaboratively with other departments and third party providers to ensure 100% customer satisfaction whilst ensuring adherence to Health & Safety & Legal requirements

Cost and efficiency - Ensure agreed budgets are met and variances accounted for in the delivery of services to the business, ensuring prompt action is taken to address any overspend.

What we are looking for:

li>Ability to engage, communicate and lead a team efficiently.
• People focussed with a strong appreciation of the Success Drivers.
• Strong experience within a broad and technical transport operation.
• A comprehensive awareness of activities of other jobs and departments with the ability to appreciate what other departments do and how this affects their own role.
• Required to plan and organise own work, within own parameters.
• Ability to persuade, influence and engage peers, team members and senior management.
• Actively listens, presents information in an appropriate style making technical information clear.
• Discretion to make decisions within normal working parameters and company policy.
• Aware of profitability needs within own area with an understanding of key performance indicators.
• Demonstrates a positive attitude and is self-motivated. 
li>Common-sense and practical approach to problem solving.  li>Proactive – Using analytical skills to seek solutions.  Flexible and able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.  li>Able to work unsupervised & in a professional manner.  li>Strong organisational and planning skills.
• Organised, articulate and understands aspects of the wider business.
• CPC Transport Manager Level 3 qualified (essential)

What’s in it for you:

£52,000 per year plus ability to earn an additional performance related bonus available up to 7.5% of annual salary

25 days annual leave (plus Public Holidays) rising to 28 after 3 years then an additional day per year to a maximum of 30 days.

Excellent career progression.

Job Title: Transport Manager
Location: Doncaster
Salary: 45,000 per annum

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Transport Manager to join a logistics operation based in Doncaster . This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and professional transport professional to take ownership of a growing fleet and play a key role in the success of the business.

Role Overview:

As Transport Manager , you will be responsible for the effective management of a fleet,covering 2 contracts across designated regions. You will ensure full compliance with all transport legislation, deliver operational excellence, and support the development and growth of the transport function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day operation of the transport department.
• Oversee a fleet of 8 HGV lorries and ensure vehicles are maintained, serviced, and roadworthy.
• Lead and support drivers, ensuring adherence to regulations and company standards.
• Ensure full compliance with transport legislation, operator licence obligations, and health & safety.
• Monitor transport performance, costs, and KPIs.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and contracts.
• Identify opportunities to streamline operations and grow the transport business.

Candidate Requirements:

• CPC qualification (essential).
• Valid HGV licence (essential).
• Strong understanding of transport compliance and regulations.
• Previous experience in a Transport Manager role or similar logistics management position.
• Ability to manage a small fleet with ambition to grow the operation.
• Hands-on approach with excellent leadership and communication skills.

Benefits:

• Salary: 45,000 per annum .
• Opportunity to grow and develop the role as the business expands.
• Be part of a forward-thinking logistics operation.

Transport Manager

Location: Gosport, Hampshire, or Garelochhead, Helensburgh

The Transport Managerrole: The OPA are looking to appoint a Transport Manager on a 1-year FTC (fixed term contract) to be based at either Garelochhead, Helensburgh, Scotland, or at Gosport, Hampshire, England, with a Hybrid working model available.

This newly created role will contribute to the development of motor transport strategies with our Executive Team, and has full responsibility for establishing, embedding, and continually improving a robust transport risk management culture across all OPA locations, ensuring the highest standards of safety, compliance, and efficiency, mirroring the existing high standards applied to other operational areas within the OPA.

The post holder will need to develop strong positive working relationships with internal stakeholders and drivers. As this role requires regular travel in the UK with some overnight stays, therefore a full (preferably clean) UK driving licence is required.

Transport ManagerResponsibilities:

Include, but are not limited to:

• Champion a proactive safety culture within transport operations, ensuring that prevention of future losses is prioritised over reactive measures.
• Lead the development, revision, and rigorous enforcement of comprehensive transport management policies and procedures, ensuring they are fully communicated and understood by all relevant personnel (including Depot Managers, Operational Managers, and drivers).
• Ensure all transport-related policies and procedures are integrated with the OPA's wider health and safety policies.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of essential documentation, such as a Driver Safety Handbook, to serve as a central repository for regulatory information and best practices.
• Establish effective information channels to disseminate updates on transport law, best practices, and industry developments to relevant staff.
• Implement robust risk assessment methodologies for all driving at work activities, ensuring standardised tools and training are provided to relevant personnel.
• Oversee the effective utilisation of technology (e.g., driver mobile applications, vehicle tracking systems) to enhance driver risk assessments, monitor compliance, and boost operational efficiency.
• Monitor and analyse transport incident and near-miss data from a centralised system, identifying trends, root causes, and implementing preventative measures to reduce risk exposure.
• Guide and support Depot management in ensuring drivers adhere to safe driving practices, leveraging data to provide targeted support and liaise with the Competency Assurance Manager regarding identified training requirements.
• Address critical deficiencies including, but not limited to, inconsistencies in route planning, journey monitoring, on-site driving regulations, vehicle selection, and driver defect management.
• Ensure transport management practices meet and exceed regulatory compliance benchmarks, including legal requirements for driver hours and vehicle roadworthiness.
• Design and execute a comprehensive internal transport audit program across all depots, incorporating key findings from external assessments and ensuring full support and resourcing for local audit initiatives.
• Transition depot-level audit reporting to an online platform for efficient data aggregation, analysis, and central reporting.
• Verify adherence to vehicle check best practices for all vehicle types, including MOD White, Yellow & Brown Fleet vehicles, and ensure proper documentation and rectification processes are in place.

The candidate: You will need to hold a relevant professional qualification (e.g., Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage (CPC), or equivalent), and have a proven positive track record in the delivery and management of the Motor Transport function.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Qualified Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor (ADR)
• ISO 39001Qualified - Road Traffic Safety Management System (RTSMS)

Required Knowledge / Skills:

• Good operational management skills
• Demonstrable expertise in transport legislation, compliance, and risk management (e.g., Operator Licence requirements, driver hours, vehicle roadworthiness).
• Strong understanding of health and safety management systems and their application to transport operations.
• Strong understanding of Motor Transport Law and Industry standards this will include Civil, Commercial and Fiscal Law, Business and Financial Management, Access to Market, Technical Standards and Road Safety.
• Experience in leveraging technology for fleet management, driver monitoring, and risk assessment (e.g., GPS tracking, telematics, driver applications).
• Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and develop actionable insights.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging effectively with all levels of the organisation.
• Competent with all Microsoft Office applications

Transport Manager

Location: Gosport, Hampshire, or Garelochhead, Helensburgh

The Transport Manager role: The OPA are looking to appoint a Transport Manager on a 1-year FTC (fixed term contract) to be based at either Garelochhead, Helensburgh, Scotland, or at Gosport, Hampshire, England, with a Hybrid working model available.

This newly created role will contribute to the development of motor transport strategies with our Executive Team, and has full responsibility for establishing, embedding, and continually improving a robust transport risk management culture across all OPA locations, ensuring the highest standards of safety, compliance, and efficiency, mirroring the existing high standards applied to other operational areas within the OPA.

The post holder will need to develop strong positive working relationships with internal stakeholders and drivers. As this role requires regular travel in the UK with some overnight stays, therefore a full (preferably clean) UK driving licence is required.

Transport Manager Responsibilities:

Include, but are not limited to:

• Champion a proactive safety culture within transport operations, ensuring that prevention of future losses is prioritised over reactive measures.
li>Lead the development, revision, and rigorous enforcement of comprehensive transport management policies and procedures, ensuring they are fully communicated and understood by all relevant personnel (including Depot Managers, Operational Managers, and drivers).
• Ensure all transport-related policies and procedures are integrated with the OPA's wider health and safety policies.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of essential documentation, such as a Driver Safety Handbook, to serve as a central repository for regulatory information and best practices.
• Establish effective information channels to disseminate updates on transport law, best practices, and industry developments to relevant staff.
• Implement robust risk assessment methodologies for all driving at work activities, ensuring standardised tools and training are provided to relevant personnel.
• Oversee the effective utilisation of technology (e.g., driver mobile applications, vehicle tracking systems) to enhance driver risk assessments, monitor compliance, and boost operational efficiency.
• Monitor and analyse transport incident and near-miss data from a centralised system, identifying trends, root causes, and implementing preventative measures to reduce risk exposure.
• Guide and support Depot management in ensuring drivers adhere to safe driving practices, leveraging data to provide targeted support and liaise with the Competency Assurance Manager regarding identified training requirements.
• Address critical deficiencies including, but not limited to, inconsistencies in route planning, journey monitoring, on-site driving regulations, vehicle selection, and driver defect management.
• Ensure transport management practices meet and exceed regulatory compliance benchmarks, including legal requirements for driver hours and vehicle roadworthiness.
• Design and execute a comprehensive internal transport audit program across all depots, incorporating key findings from external assessments and ensuring full support and resourcing for local audit initiatives.
• Transition depot-level audit reporting to an online platform for efficient data aggregation, analysis, and central reporting.
• Verify adherence to vehicle check best practices for all vehicle types, including MOD White, Yellow & Brown Fleet vehicles, and ensure proper documentation and rectification processes are in place.

The candidate: You will need to hold a relevant professional qualification (e.g., Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage (CPC), or equivalent), and have a proven positive track record in the delivery and management of the Motor Transport function.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Qualified Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor (ADR)
• ISO 39001Qualified - Road Traffic Safety Management System (RTSMS)

Required Knowledge / Skills:

• Good operational management skills
• Demonstrable expertise in transport legislation, compliance, and risk management (e.g., Operator Licence requirements, driver hours, vehicle roadworthiness).
• Strong understanding of health and safety management systems and their application to transport operations.
• Strong understanding of Motor Transport Law and Industry standards this will include Civil, Commercial and Fiscal Law, Business and Financial Management, Access to Market, Technical Standards and Road Safety.
• Experience in leveraging technology for fleet management, driver monitoring, and risk assessment (e.g., GPS tracking, telematics, driver applications).
• Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and develop actionable insights.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging effectively with all levels of the organisation.
• Competent with all Microsoft Office applications

Are you an experienced Transport Manager looking for your next challenge? We're recruiting for a forward-thinking manufacturing and distribution business that needs a leader to drive performance, compliance, and innovation within its transport function based out of their Lincoln site.

Transport Manager Job Overview -

• Lead day-to-day transport operations, managing a sizeable HGV fleet.
• Modernise systems and processes - from route optimisation to telematics and fleet management.
• Deliver a transport strategy that supports growth and sustainability goals.
• Ensure full legal compliance, O-Licence management, and safety excellence.
• Oversee audits (e.g. FORS, RHA, Blue Audit) and implement corrective actions.
• Manage budgets, KPIs, and service levels, driving continuous improvement.
• Develop and motivate the transport team through coaching and training.

Transport Manager Job Requirements -

• CPC Transport Manager qualification.
• 5+ years' experience managing a transport fleet (30+ vehicles ideal).
• Strong knowledge of UK transport regulations and compliance.
• Skilled in transport management systems, telematics, and route planning.
• A proven leader who is proactive, adaptable, and customer-focused.

Transport Manager Package & Benefits -

• Competitive salary DOE
• 25 days holiday
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance of 2 times basic annual salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• Various health & wellbeing initiatives
• Staff discount
• Free on-site parking
• Company Sick Pay

Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries.

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