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3PL & Contract Logistics Recruitment

Permanent leadership and specialist talent for third-party logistics providers — the people who win contracts, design solutions, deliver go-lives and keep multi-client sites performing.

3PL & Contract Logistics

Talent built for multi-client operations

Running logistics for someone else is a different discipline. Third-party logistics providers live and die by SLAs, open-book and closed-book commercial models, multi-client sites, implementations and peak scaling — and the people who can manage all of that at once are rare.

We recruit the permanent leadership and specialist talent 3PLs need to win and keep contracts: contract logistics general managers who own the P&L, solutions designers who turn tenders into operating models, operations managers who hold service levels steady across shared-user sites, and BD and commercial professionals who grow the book. Every placement is permanent — people who commit to your contracts, not passers-through.

3PL hiring rarely sits in isolation. Many of the roles we fill sit alongside our warehouse recruitment and operations recruitment work, and providers running online retail contracts draw on our e-commerce fulfilment recruitment desk. For director-level and confidential appointments, our executive search service runs a discreet, targeted process.

Roles we recruit

Typical positions we recruit

Permanent 3PL and contract logistics roles, from site leadership to solutions and commercial.

What we fix

Hiring challenges we solve

People who know multi-client

Shared-user sites demand leaders who can balance competing SLAs, flex resource between contracts and keep every customer feeling like the only one. We find the ones who've done it.

Commercial + operational blend

The best 3PL people read a P&L as fluently as a pick plan. We screen for both sides — operators who protect the margin and commercial minds who understand the floor.

Hires who survive go-live

Implementations expose weak hires fast. We place implementation and CI managers with real go-live scars — people who've stood up new contracts and stabilised them under pressure.

Why employers choose us

Benefits to employers

A recruitment partner that understands how third-party logistics actually makes money.

  • Permanent 3PL appointments only — people who commit to your contracts
  • Consultants who speak open-book, closed-book and gainshare fluently
  • Candidates proven on multi-client and shared-user operations
  • Solutions, implementation and BD talent for the full contract lifecycle
  • Screening for both commercial acumen and operational depth
  • UK-wide reach across the major logistics corridors and freight parks
Good to know

Frequently asked questions

What is 3PL recruitment?

3PL recruitment is hiring for third-party logistics providers — businesses that run warehousing, transport and fulfilment on behalf of their customers. We recruit the permanent leadership and specialist talent 3PLs depend on: contract logistics general managers, solutions designers, operations managers and business development professionals.

Which 3PL roles do you recruit?

We recruit contract logistics general managers, solutions design managers, 3PL operations managers, business development managers, account and contract managers, implementation managers, continuous improvement managers and customer logistics managers — all on a permanent basis, UK-wide.

Do you recruit for both open-book and closed-book contract logistics operations?

Yes. We recruit for both commercial models. Open-book operations need leaders who are comfortable with transparent cost management and close customer governance; closed-book operations need sharp commercial operators who protect the margin. We match candidates to the model your contract runs on.

Growing your contract logistics business?

The people who win, launch and keep 3PL contracts

Tell us the contract, the site and the model. We'll find the permanent 3PL talent who can deliver it — from solutions design to steady-state.

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3PL recruitment across the UK

We recruit permanent 3PL and contract logistics talent across every UK region — browse your area.

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