About the Role
Transport Planner
City: Worksop
Date: 13 Mar 2026
Logistics done differently.
Are you an experienced planner looking for a new challenge? Do you pride yourself on your ability to achieve thoroughness and accuracy? Do you like the sound of working on a key contract for one of the biggest logistics companies in the industry?
We currently recruiting for a radial planner to support our distribution contract at our site in Worksop. Working Monday to Friday
Pay, benefits and more:
We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £35,000 per annum. In addition, we offer 25 days holidays (plus bank holidays.
You’ll have access to a variety of high street discounts, cycle to work scheme, a workplace pension and many other perks.
What you’ll do on a typical day:
The planning of radial shipments for our customer within the timeframes set by the SLA
Planning of XPO core fleet resource across all sites, with full use of TMS and associated optimisation software
Subcontractor planning, allocating all work through TMS ensuring haulier partners confirm jobs assigned to them with correct cost allocation
Updating the Customer Services team in an accurate and timely manner ensuring that all information relating to ‘at risk’ or ‘failed’ loads is shared.
Ensure all collections are planned and updated accordingly.
Proactively plan any urgent orders and communicate the delivery date to the customer.
Ensure the customer is notified in a timely manner of any date changes/ failed orders including reasons why, ensuring they are re-dated and re-planned ASAP
Ensure all core fleet is allocated, ensuring all fleet utilisation targets are exceed daily
Immediate escalation to the Planning Manager for any non-conformance to the daily plan
What you need to succeed at XPO
It’s important you have exposure of working in a fast-paced environment
Paragon system experience essential
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Experience within transport and a good understanding of compliance and driver hours would be beneficial
Tech Stack
transport planningradial planningTMSfleet optimizationParagon systemsubcontractor managementSLA planningdriver hours regulationscompliance