Transport Operations Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 12, 2026. Culina scores B on the Alion truth index.
Great Bear (Part of the Culina Group) provides distribution services to FMCG clients. Customer centric service focus is delivered through a site-level empowered culture.
At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive… A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!
The Transport Operations Manager will be responsible for the 24/7 transport operations, ensuring that costs are controlled in line with budget/forecast expectations. You will also motivate and manage a team to develop them through engagement, training and personal development plans.
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 08.00-16.00
Key Duties of a Transport Operations Manager:
- Manage your team to ensure they execute traffic plans to enable delivery of products to customers within agreed service levels.
- Reduce non-contract maintenance and damage spends through the use of vehicle passports and daily confirmation of spend.
- Ensure that all available fleet is on the road and declared to enable the planning team to plan the resource.
- Motivate and develop the transport team and ensure that they comply with all relevant statutes and regulations.
- Communicate with third party hauliers in regards to control all reported defects on drop trailers left for pre-loading.
- Check and approve maintenance cost reports and related invoices.
- Ensure daily, weekly and monthly compliance milestones are achieved, measured by internal audit scoring.
- Attend daily, weekly and monthly customer review meetings.
- Monitor, audit and control suppliers.
- Support implementation of service improvements in conjunction with customers and other areas of the business.
- Generate and implement ideas with regards to staff and operational changes, which will help drive continuous improvement.
- Planning and organising skills with a high level of numeracy
- Previous supervisory experience within a FMCG environment
- Excellent negotiating skills with the ability to influence and steer
- Leadership and motivational qualities and proven experience of building a team
- An effective communicator at all levels, good verbal and written skills
- Personal motivation and confidence resulting in a positive impact
- Highly tolerant of change - able to work within an evolving organisation
- Ability to challenge the status quo and drive changes in the business
- Able to thrive in a highly competitive and demanding environment
- Good commercial knowledge of transport operations, consumer orientated and customer service driven
- Problem solving in a pressurised environment
As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work. We are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.
Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.
Our People are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:
- Annual Leave - Competitive holiday entitlement of 25 days plus the normal bank holidays.
- Company Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When we achieve our goals you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
- Private Medical Cover - This gives you peace of mind, you have choice, flexibility and speed of access to the most clinically appropriate care via Bupa
- Pension scheme - we want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 5% employee and 8% employer
- Life Assurance - x4 your annual salary
- Wellness - Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year
- Eye Care Vouchers - We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses
- Reward & Recognition - We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the month and year, special recognition and long service awards.
- Everyday discounts - via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!
If you meet the requirements for the above role and are looking for your next career opportunity please apply now and become a part of our #WinningTeam!