Role Summary:
To assist in the management and control of all activities within the inloading and outloading areas to ensure that performance and objectives are achieved in a fully effective and efficient manner.
You will need to be flexible with your availability as this is an extra role due to expansion in the department and you will be supporting both the front and the back shift. It might also involve an element of weekend working but as it is a new role, the exact shift pattern has yet to be confirmed.
Due to the location of our client, you will need to have your own transport.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage the distribution areas to monitor space availability, the condition of equipment and tidiness and cleanliness in general and take whatever corrective action is required to ensure that agreed standards are maintained.
- Support the Logistics & Operations Manager in managing, leading and inspiring the team.
- Plan, coordinate and monitor orders, assembly and dispatch of all produce.
- Ensure quality performance, customer compliance and budget targets are met.
- Liaise closely with the planning and production teams ensuring that information flows both ways and is effective.
- Coordinate the use and compliance of automated and computerised systems and provide training where necessary.
- Assist with recruitment, training, developing and retaining of staff within the team.
- Monitor and amend the shift rotas to ensure effective and efficient shift cover when necessary.
- Participate as a member of the distribution management team providing input to strategy and collective decision making as required to make an effective contribution to the overall running of the business.
- Cover for the Logistics & Operations Manager during periods of absence and as and when required.
- Service all production lines with produce, trays, and pallets as required by Production team.
- Drive team behaviours and lead by example in working towards the achievement of appropriate H&S targets.
Skills and Experience:
- Experience from within a distribution business serving the multiple retailers is seen as an essential requirement
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of the legal requirements of operating a warehouse
- People management skills, including the ability to inspire, lead and motivate others, delegate and explain
- Planning and organisation skills
- Initiative and decisiveness
- Technical and IT skills, particularly database management and spreadsheets
- Problem-solving skills and an ability to work on a tactical and strategic level
- The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
Benefits
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- Company pension
- Learning and development opportunities
Only suitable candidates will be directly contacted about this position, and we will not store or process the data of candidates in any way unless consent has been obtained.