Planning Control Room Manager
DHL
United Kingdom · Milton Keynes, UK
Position: Planning Control Room Manager
Location: Milton Keynes
Grade: RCS. L
Shift patterns: Monday-Friday. Day time hours (08:00-16:00)
Contract Type: Permanent (Full-Time)
At DHL Supply Chain, we're redefining digital logistics through innovation, data, and operational excellence. As we continue to strengthen our cutting-edge Digital Centre in Milton Keynes, we're looking for a driven and experienced Planning Control Room Manager to take ownership of our control room function—leading real-time decision-making, optimising resource planning, and ensuring seamless service delivery across our operation.
This is a pivotal leadership role where you'll sit at the heart of our operation, coordinating activity, managing performance, and empowering your team to deliver world-class service in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment.
✅A TYPICAL DAY MAY INVOLVE
- To maximise the performance of the operation by ensuring accurate, detailed planning information to enable the operation to direct the daily, weekly and monthly activities and identify any potential shortfalls
- Managing a team to monitor and track all KPI's against plan, providing timely and accurate reports in all areas including planned and flex hours, performance levels
- Accountable for producing accurate, detailed planning information and volume plans
- Plan, allocate, co-ordinate and adjust staff levels to meet operational requirements in line with defined budgets
- Support in driving a continuous improvement culture within the operation
- Scheduling of rota's and work patterns in line with Working Time Directive guidelines
- To carry out ad hoc projects that both improve and advance the depot planning processes
- Communicate and liaise with on site agency management to support shortfalls or surplus of hours requirement
✅THIS ROLE WOULD SUIT PEOPLE WHO
- Previous experience within a warehouse environment is essential
- 3PL experience would be desirable
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Technical understanding of operations with technical abilities around systems (Excel, Co Pilot, Manhattan & Red Prairie, Chronos, Power BI)
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Resource planning background
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Project management would be beneficial
- Excellent communication skills - Verbal and written
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Analytical skills
✅WHY JOIN US?
- Free parking and on-site canteen
- 25 days annual leave
- Join our generous pension scheme and benefit from an 8% employer contribution, alongside a 4% employee contribution
- Free confidential 24/7 GP consultations
- Hundreds of retail and lifestyle discounts
- Affordable loans, savings schemes and free mortgage advice
- Visit https://careers.dhl.com/global/en/working-at-dhl-supply-chain to learn more
✅WHO WE ARE
We're the global leaders in supply chain management with 188,000 people in over 50 countries. Our expert teams work together to deliver for our customers across a range of industries including retail, automotive, healthcare and more.
✅BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE
At DHL, we're all about creating a workplace where everyone's skills and experiences matter, and where you can be your true self every day.
As proud supporters of the Armed Forces Covenant, we value the skills and experience of ex-service personnel and are dedicated to helping our veterans find jobs.
Please be aware that interviews are provisionally scheduled to take place during the week commencing 25th May. Applications received after this date may not be considered but will be added to our talent pool for future opportunities, subject to your consent. Please also be aware that we review applications continuously and where we have a large number of applications the application period may close ahead of the provisional interview date. To ensure your application is considered we recommend submitting it as early as possible.
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