Your role
As Assistant Transport Planner you will be responsible for a correct settlement of all transport orders of the customers of P&O Ferrymasters, linked to the administrative, commercial and operational activities of the Huckepack product, within the Trailer Business Unit.
You will also be responsible for maintaining a correct and timely flow of communication between the Customers, or the Customer Service department, rail and trucking suppliers, and operational departments, in order to achieve optimal performance and maximum return.
Key responsibilities
- Administrative and communicative support to the Transport Planners;
- Making sure that all changes, delays, extra costs and / or calamities are communicated to the customers, or the Customer Service department, who will inform the customers;
- Confirming, or taking care of confirmation of the above to the trucking supply;
- Checking data after loading and comparing this data with booking details;
- Commercial support to customers directly and to internal customer service teams, including spot load chasing;
- Optimisation of company trains (over time, after training program);
- Minimisation of empty kilometres from delivery to collection (over time, after training program);
- Optimisation of available trucking supply (over time, after training program).
Your profile
As Assistant Transport Planner you take responsibility and possess excellent communication skills.
So you:
- Are educated to a minimum of Bachelor level or similar level through work experience;
- Have good command of Polish and English language (other European languages are preferred);
- Have good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages;
- Are accurate, and customer orientated.
Who are we?
We are P&O Ferrymasters, and we work with some of the largest companies in the world to make sure that their goods get to where they need to on time and efficiently. We have locations across Europe and the Northern Mediterranean and our routes cover road, rail, and sea.
We operate from over 20 locations in 13 countries and work with some of the best-known global household names. We are a part of DP World who are one of the largest global logistics companies in the world; at any one time 10% of all shipping containers in the world are being shipped by DP World. We are proud to lead the future of logistics to help enable global trade in the 21st century and beyond.
We offer
P&O Ferrymasters offers a competitive package in line with the seniority of the position. Salary will be dependent on experience of the successful candidate.
Other benefits include Company pension, P&O Ferries travel concessions, Employee Assistance Scheme and an employee wellbeing programme along with opportunities for personal and professional training and development.
Time to act!
Do you have what we’re looking for? And does this sound like the perfect opportunity for you? We hope so – in which case, now’s the time to let us know! Please apply with your CV and covering letter as soon as possible to recruitment@pofm.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
