Road Freight Operations Specialist - National Groupage, Distribution & Collection

DP World, the fast-growing transportation and logistics leader that currently manages more than 10% of world trade, is seeking an experienced Road Freight Operations Specialist (National Groupage & Distribution) to join our growing Freight Forwarding office in Bucharest, Romania.

Your Responsibilities:

• Planning and coordinating national groupage, collection, and distribution operations.
• Organising and optimising daily freight flows across hubs, cross-docks, and distribution networks.
• Ensuring the completeness and accuracy of operational data, including addresses, contacts, dimensions, weights, loading metres, and special delivery requirements.
• Consolidating freight to maximise vehicle utilisation and optimise transport costs.
• Coordinating daily national collection, distribution, multi-drop, and multi-pickup activities.
• Creating and issuing transport orders to carriers before transport execution.
• Managing carrier performance and monitoring loading, unloading, and delivery deadlines.
• Tracking shipments through Track & Trace systems and proactively addressing operational deviations.
• Ensuring compliance with agreed transit times and customer service levels.
• Maintaining effective communication with customers, carriers, warehouses, and operational partners.
• Analysing vehicle utilisation, route efficiency, delivery performance, loading levels, transport costs, and operational visibility.
• Driving network and process improvements, preparing regular operational reports and KPI updates, and supporting additional business requirements assigned by management.

Your Profile:

• Minimum two years in groupage, national distribution, collection, control tower, domestic transport, or comparable logistics operations. Experience limited to FTL transport is an advantage but does not replace groupage and distribution experience.
• Strong knowledge of national groupage, collection, and distribution, including freight consolidation, hub operations, cross-docking, multi-drop deliveries, and multi-pickup collections.
• Good understanding of route planning, vehicle-capacity utilisation, chargeable weight, volumetric calculations, transport profitability, and cost structures.
• Good knowledge of PC applications and TMS platforms, with practical experience using Track & Trace systems and monitoring operational KPIs.
• Solid understanding of carrier management, Romanian geography, and key logistics and industrial areas. Experience in retail, automotive, FMCG, or industrial distribution is an advantage.
• English language skills are considered an advantage.
• Excellent organisational and planning skills, with the ability to coordinate high volumes of shipments, collections, and deliveries in a fast-paced distribution environment.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities, with the ability to prioritise effectively, make timely operational decisions, and manage exceptions through rapid corrective action.
• Clear and professional verbal and written communication, with a strong focus on customer satisfaction and service quality.
• A proactive approach to improving operational efficiency, controlling costs, and making effective use of available resources.

• A collaborative, team-oriented approach and the ability to work effectively with multiple internal departments, carriers, customers, and external operational partners.

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 115,000 employees from 160 nationalities, spanning 78 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

DP World is on a mission to transcend boundaries and bridge the gap between all nations and cultures – not just in what we do but also in how we behave.

We are dedicated to creating a culture where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential. We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity, drives innovation and growth and helps us connect people, businesses, and societies. Free minds and different perspectives are changing our world, and together we can change what’s possible.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW 
TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.

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