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FareShare
Job Description and Person Specification
Job Title: Head of Transport and Logistics
Reporting to: Director of Operations
Location: Flexible, UK wide (home based with some travel)
Contract Type: 12 Month Fixed Term with potential to extend/ become permanent
Hours per week: 35 Hours
Salary: £58,602-£61,687 per annum
Our Vision: A UK where “No good food goes to waste”.
We are UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to approximately 8,500 frontline charities and community groups. Every week we provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people.
There has never been a more exciting time to join an organisation at the heart of public consciousness. For more information visit our website.
FareShare is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities and as a Disability Confident Employer, we provide reasonable adjustments.
We aim to recruit from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our commitment to redistributing surplus food, come and join us!
The role
This pivotal new role will play a central part in shaping and delivering an innovative logistics strategy to support FareShare’s rapid growth and ensure the efficient and safe transportation of food across the FareShare Network.
As FareShare continues to scale, this role is key to optimising our transport operations—streamlining processes, leveraging data-driven insights, and implementing innovative solutions to deliver food in a timely and cost-effective manner while upholding our commitment to fairness and accessibility.
The successful candidate will lead our relationships with leading transport and logistics providers, working closely with the haulage industry to align national and local transport solutions. This role demands an analytical mindset, a proven track record of driving efficiency, and the ability to identify new opportunities for collaboration and growth.
We are seeking an experienced professional from the logistics and transport sector, ideally with expertise in food distribution. If you thrive on innovation, excel in developing partnerships to achieve shared goals, and are motivated by the opportunity to drive systemic improvements, this role offers the perfect platform to make a meaningful impact.
Main areas of responsibility
- Develop and implement innovative solutions to optimise logistics operations, identifying efficiencies, cost savings, and opportunities to enhance service provision.
- Create and utilise logistics load forecasting models to improve planning and operational readiness.
- Work across teams—including Supply Chain, Food, Network, and Operations—to design tailored transport solutions that align with specific circumstances and operational goals.
- P&L management/ownership, financial planning and cost optimisation
- Change management (implementation of new solutions)
- Proposing and leading ‘best in class’ logistics transport initiatives for the organisation
- Ensure compliance with financial protocols while driving cost efficiencies in collaboration with partners and suppliers.
- Provide guidance and support to the Network to maintain the safe and compliant operation of HGVs, adhering to all health, safety, and legal standards.
- Collaborate with consultants, external partners, and the Health & Safety team to safeguard people, reputation, and operational integrity.
- Act as the strategic relationship lead for haulier partnerships, fostering strong collaborations to improve service levels and identify opportunities for cost reduction.
- Identify and develop new partnerships with hauliers, engaging through direct meetings and building relationships to support FareShare’s growth.
- Collaborate with logistics companies to identify and utilise surplus capacity within their operations, aligning with FareShare’s mission to maximise resources.
- Manage current and emerging transport initiatives, including FareShare-managed lorries and other strategic programmes, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives and operational excellence.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
- 5+ years experience working within supply chain and logistics
- Extensive leadership experience in a senior logistics role
- Strategic planning and execution experience, in a logistics setting
- Strong understanding of budgeting, financial planning and cost optimisation
- Familiarity with relevant laws, including health and safety, environmental and transport regulations
- Multi-site transport management experience
- Proven ability to track and achieve performance metrics such as delivery times, costs and customer satisfaction
- Experience managing transport budgets of £5m+
- Experience managing 3PL contracts
- Experience managing in-house and contracted primary logistics
- Track record of implementing process improvements and innovative solutions
- Excellent organisational skills and comfort working in a fast-paced environment
Desirable Criteria
- CPC qualified
- Lean Six Sigma qualified
- CSCP or CPL qualified
Competencies and behaviours
- An understanding of and commitment to FareShare’s mission.
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities.
- Flexibility and collaborative style of working across FareShare and with all our stakeholders.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- IT literate with good standard of Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- An understanding of, and passion for, the mission and values of FareShare
- Able to present FareShare professionally and act as an ambassador
- Able to demonstrate respect for work colleagues and FareShare beneficiaries
- A positive and “can-do” attitude
Benefits
- Hybrid / Flexible working, with regular UK travel
- 28 days’ annual leave + 8 bank holidays
- Employers pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Interest free bicycle purchase loan scheme
- Season ticket loan
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
This is a fantastic role for an ambitious fundraising expert who likes to roll up their sleeves and combine strategic thinking, with active fund raising and the leadership of a team.
This is an ideal role for someone who is wanting to advance their career by taking on a senior role within the international NGO sector as part of Global Health Partnership’s (GHP’s) Leadership Team.
GHP has a strong track record in securing institutional funding. Our priority now is to build on this track record and further diversify our funding sources and innovate in how we fund our work to achieve greatest impact.
You will enjoy considerable autonomy as you continue to grow GHP’s visibility with external partners and our income, working with the full support of the Chief Executive and Board of Trustees.
Here are the top four things we think you can be excited about:
- Being at the heart of the UK global health community, supporting UK NHS and other health workers to engage internationally, working closely with diverse partners including WHO, UK Government Departments and the NHS.
- Developing your own strategy and team to deliver growth in income across major donors and corporate supporters.
- Working with the recently formed business development team and with colleagues from across the organisation (in the UK and overseas) to identify opportunities for funding and developing bespoke proposals.
- Taking on a leadership role within GHP, contributing to the quality and strategic direction of its global health work.
MAIN RESPONSABILITIES
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Executive as a member of the Leadership Team. Responsibilities for Fund raising are distributed across many roles in the organisation, but you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the organisational Fundraising Strategy, paying particular attention to the diversification of our funding portfolio and ensuring all teams are supported to achieve their fundraising goals.
Your main focus will be on diversifying our funding sources, growing our income from major donors and corporate supporters and increasing our effectiveness and reach with trusts and foundations. You will have the autonomy to shape the role and make it your own. We encourage the successful candidate to showcase their creativity and strategic thinking to enhance our profile, attract and retain new donors and to grow income.
You will have impeccable stakeholder management, ensuring our core Partners, Stakeholders, Donors and Trustees receive timely, engaging and trusted updates on our work and impact, and have a positive experience of creating change with GHP.
You will be a positive, flexible, and hands-on team player who is able to create a team around projects and campaigns, as well as build strategic relationships with strategic donors, philanthropists and partners.
WHAT WE OFFER
· Flexible working hours
· Remote working arrangements, with regular travel to London
· Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave benefits
· Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
· 25 days annual leave plus three days off between Christmas and New Year
· Annual learning & development allowance
· 5% employer pension contribution when an employee contributes 3%.
· Cycle to work scheme.
· A friendly, supportive work environment.
HOW TO APPLY
Candidates can apply by submitting a two-page cover letter stating why they are interested in this position, what they would bring to the role and how they fit the person's specification. This letter should be submitted with a CV by midnight Wednesday 8th January 2025, with ‘Head of Fund Raising’ in the subject line. Applicants must be available for interview and assessment over the following two weeks. GHP is an equal-opportunity employer, and any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. The job holder must be able to live and work in the UK. Non-EC nationals will require current and valid permission to work in the UK.
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