Transport Shift Manager (Nights)

GXO Logistics, Inc.; East Kilbride; On-site; GBP 38,000 - GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in East Kilbride seeks a Transport Shift Manager (Nights) to lead operations for a major UK retailer. The ideal candidate will have experience in FMCG transport and will play a pivotal role in optimizing service and compliance while leading a motivated team. Responsibilities include managing transport operations, ensuring safety and compliance, and fostering stakeholder relationships. This full-time role offers a competitive salary of up to £45,000 per annum with additional benefits, including a pension scheme and annual leave.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Company-sponsored pension scheme

Life assurance

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Experienced in an FMCG transport environment.
• Knowledge of transport compliance, safety, and legislation.
• Proven ability to lead and engage teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily people management for direct reports.
• Manage daily transport operations to meet KPIs.
• Ensure compliance with transport and legislative requirements.
• Identify efficiency and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

People leadership

Transport compliance

Operational efficiency

Decision-making under pressure

Education

Transport Manager CPC qualification

Job description

Do you have a passion for people and operational safety? Are you looking for a fast‑paced operation, that will utilise your operational and people leadership experience? Are you keen to shape the future of transport operations for one of the UK’s largest retailers?

Here at GXO, we are recruiting for a Transport Shift Manager (Nights) to join our team in Langlands, for our customer Sainsbury’s. You’ll play a pivot role as a leader for our colleagues in Transport (inc. Fleet), ensuring best‑in‑class service for optimising, utilisation and smooth running of our operation. You’ll demonstrate great leadership that promotes an inclusive culture, generating high levels of trust which drives high performance, whilst meeting responsibilities including legal, KPIS, budgetary and customer service levels.

The role is being offered on a full‑time, permanent basis. 40 hours per week (predominately Monday to Friday but requires flexibility for 5 days out of 7, hours of 22.00 to 6.00).

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £45,000 per annum (£3,000 additional shift allowance), and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company‑sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• People leadership & succession: Lead day‑to‑day people management for direct and indirect reports, making people decisions in line with legislation, policy and values, supporting development, succession planning, and the colleague lifecycle through the HR business model
• Operational leadership of Transport: Manage daily Transport operations, including resource allocation, utilisation, capability and performance, to deliver safe, efficient site operations and achieve KPIs across permanent and agency colleagues
• Performance, compliance & safety: Ensure consistent operational standards across the end‑to‑end transport function, monitoring and implementing compliance with Transport, HSEQ, legislative and policy requirements
• Continuous improvement & decision‑making: Identify and present efficiency and continuous improvement opportunities, balancing service and cost, while making informed operational decisions and knowing when to act quickly versus deepen analysis
• Stakeholder & team management: Maintain effective external stakeholder relationships (including customers) and directly manage Transport Team Managers and clerical teams, while indirectly leading wider Transport colleagues across the shift

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Experienced in an FMCG transport environment, qualified or working towards a Transport Manager CPC
• Transport compliance, safety & legislation knowledge
• Proven ability to lead, engage, empower and inspire teams to deliver results, role‑modelling continuous self‑development while maintaining focus under pressure in fast‑paced environments
• Confident in making time‑pressured decisions, constructively challenging the status quo, identifying process improvement opportunities, and influencing change through clear presentation and judgement
• Builds collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, understands influencing techniques to achieve positive outcomes

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.