Allocations Supervisor

We’re Pulhams — a long-established, family-focused bus and coach operator based in Bourton-on-the-Water in the heart of the Cotswolds. With a heritage dating back to 1880, we’re proud to be a business that has grown for more than 140 years while still keeping a warm, community-driven feel.

We recently became part of the Oxford Bus Company within the Go-Ahead Group, which is helping us invest in our people, our fleet, and the future of our services. Today, we operate 160 buses and coaches from multiple sites, across a wide variety of work, including local bus routes, home-to-school services, private hire, educational trips, and UK and European tours.

It’s an exciting time to join us. We’re expanding, modernising, and developing new services while staying true to the family values that have shaped who we are. Joining Pulhams means becoming part of a friendly, ambitious team that takes pride in serving our communities and delivering a first-class travel experience.

The successful candidate will allocate work and vehicles to drivers, manage holiday and sickness cover, arrange cover for training courses and appointments, prepare and send out work tickets and plenty more aside.

Importantly, we’re looking for someone who will allocate work in a financially efficient manner, but also in a way which recognises drivers work patterns and vehicle allocations, to improve driver satisfaction.

This role is directly able to affect how efficient our operation is in terms of paid hours / miles operated and will suit someone with an eye for detail and an ability to see how things fit together in different ways, to maximise productivity. It is a challenging, yet rewarding role.

There is an element of weekend on-call availability required within this role, with occasional driving required when the business is at it’s busiest.

Pulhams continues to grow and develop, with this role becoming more and more significant. The successful applicant will work with the wider management team to implement new ways of working, to modernise how we work, as well as retaining a personal touch, which is so important when allocating work to our drivers in a fair and consistent manner.