Transportation Manager - #142031

At C&C Group, we’re a team of drinks industry enthusiasts, dedicated to supporting the trade day in and day out. As one of the UK’s largest drinks wholesalers, we supply drinks to thousands of venues across the UK; from luxury hotels and world-class event spaces to local restaurants and community pubs. With over 200 years of on-trade experience, our heritage and insights matter.

Operating through our brands like Matthew Clark, Bibendum, Tennent’s, and Bulmers Ireland, we combine extensive industry knowledge with a market-leading range, scale, and reach.

Purpose of the role:

• Internal job title: Transport Team Manager

This position is vital in managing the day-to-day operations of our transport team and fleet. As Transport Team Manager, you’ll focus on cost management, service quality, and strict compliance with Health and Safety, regulatory, and company policies, ensuring that all activities align with legal standards. You’ll drive people-related KPIs and provide essential support to the management team to keep everything running smoothly.

About the Role:

In this dynamic role, you’ll:

• Oversee the transport operation, ensuring cost-effectiveness, service excellence, and policy compliance within your team.
• Support the transport team including Transport Manager with daily meetings, debrief of crews (Driver Mate & Class 2 Driver), ensure company standards are met and delivering operational efficiency through route planning.
• Drive key people KPIs, fostering a positive culture and productive work environment.

About You:

You bring substantial experience from fast-paced settings like FMCG and logistics. Your strengths include:

• Leading, developing and inspiring teams to excel and go the extra mile for our customers.
• Building a positive culture focused on efficiency and operational success.
• Expertise in fleet management and route planning, ensuring a seamless workflow and achieving company goals.

About us

Operating through the Matthew Clark, Bibendum, Tennent’s and Bulmers Ireland brands, the Group has a market leading range, scale and reach including an intimate understanding of the markets it serves.

Together we grow, brew, manufacture, market, and deliver some of the world’s favourite drinks. From grass to glass, and everything in between. C&C Group plc is a premium drinks company which owns, manufactures, markets, and distributes a unique portfolio of beer and cider brands in its home markets and across the globe.

C&C Group’s portfolio of owned/exclusive brands include: Bulmers, the leading Irish cider brand; Tennent’s, the leading Scottish beer brand; Magners the premium international cider brand; as well as a range of fast-growing, premium and craft ciders and beers, such as Heverlee, Menabrea, Five Lamps and Orchard Pig.

We seek to champion and embed sustainability in everything that we do at C&C. While delivering joy to customers, we always shine a light on people and the planet. We have a clear ESG vision delivering to a better world. We respect, support, and develop all our people to be their best, with a focus on results by creating a culture of winning together.

We also recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to delivering on our mission. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Please let us know if you require accommodations during the interview process.

C&C Group (and inclusive companies) do not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to any of our roles. For help, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected]. All applications need to come through the candidate portal https://careers.candcgroupplc.com/vacancies/