As a Transport Supervisor you will ensure the day-to-day leadership of drivers at your depot, ensuring a safe and compliant environment delivering pharmaceutical products to the customers on a professional manner, on time in full to fulfil the delivery time requirements at the agreed cost. Ensure that GDP compliance is adhered to at all times.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Ensure that GDP compliance is adhered to at all times.

* Ensuring delivery performance on daily basis according with your KPIs

* Leading a Health and Safety culture within despatch; sets site safety best practices by demonstrating zero tolerance behaviour, continually challenging and raising Safety standards.

* Ensure drivers adhere to vehicle compliance standards

* Investigate any issue reported by drivers

Secondary Responsibilities:

* Ensure all team members adhere to SOP's and comply with their individual responsibilities for GDP, to ensure there are no deficiencies

* Manage and motivate the transport team to deliver on time in full;

* Recommend improvements to the transport process and SOP's to increase process efficiency and effectiveness.

* Embrace continuous improvement activities.

* Effectively manage the use of all transport resources (Vehicles, labour,).

* Manage teams to minimise delays with delivery of consignments

* Manage Vehicle reliability through effective and timely turnarounds vehicle maintenance Schedule

* Reporting any vehicle damage/ vehicle accidents to the Transport manager

* Ensure vehicles are roadworthy at all times.

* Ensure ambient and cold chain chambers of the vehicles are checked to be within the correct temperature range by the drivers prior to loading.

* Ensure consignments are validated by the drivers prior to departing from the depot.

* Any missing parcels or errors during the delivery must be reported to the Transport Manager or authorised person immediately.

* Ensure all deliveries are supported by a POD.

* Ensure drivers maintain vehicles clean and tidy at all times.

* All SOP's and WI's must be adhered to at all times.

Essentials Experience, Skills and Abilities:

* Full UK Driving license

* Pallet stacker or counterbalance fork truck experience

* Operational experience in a Transport / Dispatch environment

* Supervision/management experience ideal

* Proactive

* Organised

* Flexible