Transport Regional General Manager

Can you lead large-scale transport operations across multiple sites while driving performance and compliance? Are you confident influencing senior customers and stakeholders to deliver strategic transport solutions? Do you have the vision and leadership capability to turn operational excellence into sustainable growth?

We are looking for a Transport Regional General Manager to join our M&S sites in Bradford, Daventry and Peterborough. You will be providing strategic leadership across a portfolio of transport operations. This is a highly visible role where you'll work through established Transport Managers and leadership teams, ensuring consistent standards, operational excellence and legal compliance across the region.

As the senior transport lead, you'll act as a trusted customer partner, driving performance, innovation and continuous improvement while safeguarding service, safety, compliance and commercial success. With responsibility for fleet strategy, governance and transport operations across multiple sites, you'll play a key role in shaping the future direction of the business and delivering long-term value for both GXO and our customer.

This is a full-time, permanent role, working predominately Monday to Friday but flexibility is required.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £105,000.00 per annum and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes company car or car allowance, flexible dental insurance plans, a company sponsored pension scheme, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more! 

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Lead and deliver the regional transport strategy, ensuring alignment with customer objectives and wider business goals
• Oversee transport performance across multiple sites, monitoring service, compliance, productivity, KPIs and operational risk
• Act as the senior escalation point for significant transport, safety, customer, people and operational issues
• Manage regional budgets, forecasts and commercial performance, identifying opportunities for growth and efficiency
• Provide leadership, coaching and development to Transport Managers, building capability and succession across the region
• Drive fleet governance, ensuring vehicles and transport assets are legally compliant, operationally available and fit for purpose
• Champion continuous improvement, innovation and best practice by implementing scalable solutions across the transport network

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Proven senior leadership experience within multi-site transport, logistics or supply chain operations
• Strong knowledge of transport legislation, fleet compliance, operator licensing and regulatory requirements
• Demonstrable experience managing budgets, P&Ls, forecasting and contractual performance
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence customers, senior leaders and external bodies
• Strong leadership and people development capability, including coaching senior managers and succession planning
• Experience delivering large-scale change, continuous improvement and operational transformation initiatives
• Full UK Driving Licence and International Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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