Transport Clerk

We're Bensons for Beds! We put Sleep Wellness at the heart of everything we do. With 100 years of experience in sourcing the best quality beds, frames and mattresses, at Bensons we understand how to design the perfect, tailored sleep experience. We have 170+ locations and employ c 1800 colleagues. Under new ownership of Alteri Investors we have an ambitious 3 year plan to grow the business further and achieve our mission.

Daily responsibilities include:

• Ensure that vehicles are kept to pre-set standards and are legally compliant.
• Ensure that issues such as annual leave, sickness and driver disciplinary are dealt with within Bensons for Beds guidelines.
• Working with employment agencies to acquire drivers on a temporary basis when required by the business.
• Routing deliveries on a daily basis.
• Ensure drivers comply with legal driving hours and working time directive.
• Daily KPI data entries
• Assist other members of the distribution centre office team with their duties as required.
• Work jointly with Transport and Warehouse and ensuring we are compliant on collections and we are investigating and fails and put in fixes

We are looking for administrators with the following skills, experience and attributes to be successful in this role:

Desirable

• Office Experience
• Transport Knowledge (not essential as training will be given)

In return for your contribution to the team’s performance, we offer a competitive base salary plus all these extra benefits:

• *Employee discount scheme for Bensons products
• *Medicash - cashback options for Health and wellbeing services (dental, optical, virtual GP, other healthcare services and more)
• *Unum Income Protection - for peace of mind if you’re off work long term due to illness
• *Pension scheme – provided by Legal & General
• *Discounted Gym membership
• *Cycle to Work scheme
• *Annual leave buy & sell scheme – you can top up your holiday entitlement or sell unused days to suit you
• *Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
• Access to Retail Trust services (guidance and support on retail issues, mental health, wellbeing & financial topics)
• Learning and development programmes to gain new knowledge and skills
• Career progression – access to internal opportunities to build your career within Bensons for Beds
• *Long service awards and ‘Love to Shop’ voucher rewards to spend as you like