Planning General Manager

With your strategic desire to dig deep into the detail, our opportunity as Planning General Manager offers you the perfect blend of strategy, delivery and execution across our customer network. You will be leading operational excellence and best-in-class Paragon planning for our network.

This is a pivotal leadership role to our success, you'll be getting stuck in with sharing your SME Paragon and planning knowledge, through partnership and coaching, helping us deliver a culture of continuous improvement. You'll be taking ownership for the day to day planning management, ensuring our fleets are in line with forecasted volumes and lead times, ensuring the delivery of our customer proposition in the most cost-efficient manner.,

• Strategic planning (via Paragon with ownership of a central planning budget of circa £3.5m.


• Leadership, development and direction for our colleagues, whilst sharing your SME Paragon planning experience.


• Customer engagement through delivery, strategy and implementation, along with reporting and providing MI reports/information to achieve this.


• Build Paragon planning strategy to achieve long-term best in class objectives, with continuous improvements to identify/highlight areas of opportunity to reduce fleet, costs and improve service.


• Develop and present business performance reports, trends and insight to fleet efficiencies, along with utilisation and conformance to the plan (including financials, KPIS metrics and opportunities).


• Lead the transport operations on capacity vs requirements, leading discussions with the leadership team on tactics to address impacts, opportunities, issues and challenges.
  
  Proven leadership experience specialising in planning and working in Paragon, at a Network, General Manager or Multi-Site level.


• Strong presenting, reporting and communicating skills to deliver to our senior leadership stakeholders.


• Proactive can-do attitude, with the ability to form strong working relationships at all levels, bringing your team on our journey with development and succession planning.


• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, to 'connect the dots' and approach issue resolution with a 'forward-looking' view to anticipate and address problems., Disability Confident

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Our people are at the core of our business and what makes Wincanton great. That's why we also provide significant opportunities for career development and progression, as well as training enrichment and multi-skilling, in a dynamic working environment.

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Our Commitment

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel safe, supported and valued, whilst feeling they can be their whole selves within our workplaces. We are proud that our colleagues represent us and our successes. Attracting diverse teams, we believe in creating an inclusive, respectful organisational culture for our colleagues and future talent.

In addition to a generous salary, company car/allowance, we really value our people and offer a friendly, safety-first working environment, along with other benefits including company car, company pension scheme, generous holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee benefits include, online discount platform, and much more.