Transportation Department Manager

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Do you want to lead people in everyday operations while helping develop a growing transportation business? At Svensk Hemleverans, you'll have a key role where you create security, structure, and momentum – for engaged employees, satisfied customers, and sustainable deliveries every day. About the role As a Transportation Department Manager, you lead and develop a growing department with strong customer focus. You are responsible for employees, work environment, quality, and results – and work closely with the site manager, customers, and colleagues to create a secure, efficient, and future-oriented distribution. This role suits you if you thrive in a high-paced environment with many contact points and the opportunity to make an impact. You are present, clear, and solution-oriented – and gain energy from developing people, working methods, customer relationships, and results. Your main areas of responsibility ·Lead, coach, and create the right conditions for employees to succeed in their daily work. ·Plan staffing, resources, and follow-ups so that operations run smoothly and efficiently. ·Drive work environment, quality, and improvements with focus on both people and results. ·Maintain close customer contact and find solutions for urgent assignments, new customer needs, and existing customers' requests. ·Contribute to smart, cost-conscious solutions for new assignments, changes, and route optimization. Who are you? We believe you are a secure and engaged leader who enjoys creating direction, participation, and trust. You likely have experience with personnel responsibility and a good understanding of transportation, distribution, or other operational activities where people, customers, and planning need to work together. You enjoy close customer dialogue and have an easy time understanding needs, seeing opportunities, and finding solutions that create value. This could involve urgent assignments, new requests, existing customers' needs, or upselling opportunities. With business acumen, structure, and a holistic perspective, you help the transportation company continue to grow sustainably. To thrive and succeed in this role, we'd like to see that some of the following experiences and qualities apply to you: ·Experience leading people and creating engagement in an operational setting. ·Understanding of transportation, distribution, or other operations where planning, quality, costs, and people need to work together. ·Ability to create structure, follow up, and find improvements that make daily work simpler and more efficient. ·Experience with customer dialogue and an interest in finding solutions that work for both the customer and the business. ·Confident and clear communication, preferably in both Swedish and English. ·Class B driver's license, as travel in operations will occur. ·Experience with digital tools and good knowledge of the Office suite. ·Experience with route optimization or transport economics is a bonus. What we offer At Svensk Hemleverans, you become part of a growing transportation business where cooperation, engagement, and curiosity drive us forward. Here you'll be close to people, customers, and operations – and make a tangible difference in a daily reality that affects many. We want to create a workplace where people feel secure, included, and involved. As a department manager, you'll have the opportunity to influence, develop, and build on a culture where we help each other, learn from one another, and take responsibility together. Svensk Hemleverans operates across a large geographic area, which means travel may occur based on operational needs. Since operations run around the clock, year-round, work outside regular hours may occur. This happens through dialogue between employees and management and in accordance with current collective agreements. Does this sound like your next challenge? We warmly welcome your application! We look forward to getting to know you and hearing how you want to contribute with your leadership, experience, and engagement with us. We are a values-driven group that strives for equality and diversity and therefore value applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. To ensure a safe and secure workplace, we conduct background checks on selected candidates as part of our recruitment process. Selection and interviews take place on an ongoing basis and the position may be filled before the final application deadline. For questions, please contact Site Manager Marcus Wendel, [email protected] For union-related questions, please contact Jenny Björklund Unionen, [email protected] Svensk Hemleverans offers fast and affordable home deliveries in an efficient and sustainable logistics chain with the main mission of distributing morning newspapers. To provide maximum value with each delivery, we also transport letters and packages. Our distribution areas are Östergötland, northern Småland, Uppland, Gotland, Sörmland, Norrbotten, and northern Västerbotten. We are part of NTM, one of Sweden's largest groups for local media, a foundation-owned group with its heart in local journalism. We have high ambitions in our daily work and as an employer. We actively work with our work environment, competence, and leadership to create a thriving business. We value diversity and develop by taking advantage of our employees' different experiences and perspectives, but we unite under a common set of values. Our values are built on three words that describe how we approach challenges, each other, and the world around us: we are Curious, Together, and Courageous. By being curious, working together, and daring to be courageous, we build the future NTM.Do you want to lead people in everyday operations while helping develop a growing transportation business? At Svensk Hemleverans, you'll have a key role where you create security, structure, and momentum – for engaged employees, satisfied customers, and sustainable deliveries every day. About the role As a Transportation Department Manager, you lead and develop a growing department with strong customer focus. You are responsible for employees, work environment, quality, and results – and work closely with the site manager, customers, and colleagues to create a secure, efficient, and…

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active

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public

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Linköping

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58.420196001669, 15.664678354844copyopen in

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Published

6. 7. 2026

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5. 8. 2026

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