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Posting Date: 28 Jul 2025

Location:

Bedford, GB

Entity / company: Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company

Depot Manager

Job Title: Depot Manager

Location: Bedford, MK41 0LZ

Job Length: Permanent

Working Hours: 45 hours per week. Working 9 hours per day on a Monday to Friday basis, with start and finish times to vary. Flexible working required, including weekend working to suit business needs.

Competitive Salary with extensive benefits :

• Product allowance – alcoholic & non-alcoholic choices
• Company bonus scheme
• Life Assurance
• Access to 24/7 GP services
• Company pension contribution
• Generous holiday
• Access to a range of high street discounts

Carlsberg Britvic is the largest multi-beverage supplier in the UK and is home to some of the most iconic and popular beers & soft drinks, including Carlsberg Danish Pilsner, 1664, Poretti and Brooklyn to ale favourites such as Hobgoblin and Wainwright. For soft drinks, Carlsberg Britvic’s brands include J2O, Robinsons, Tango and London Essence along with the licence rights to the Pepsi portfolio in the UK including Pepsi MAX, 7UP, Lipton Ice Tea and Rockstar Energy.

With a strong national footprint, the Carlsberg Britvic business includes 6 production facilities and 16 logistics depot’s servicing customers up and down the UK. As these two historical businesses have come together, the one common goal remains, and that is ensuring our people succeed.

About the role:

This is a big role at a key depot, perfect for someone who’s passionate about leading teams, driving high standards, and keeping everything moving smoothly. We’re looking for a hands-on leader who knows warehouse and logistics inside out, can manage change, and build strong relationships across the board, from the warehouse teams to senior stakeholders. If you’ve got the drive to take ownership, improve performance, and play a big part in shaping the future of our logistics network, we’d love to hear from you!

If you are interested in joining our journey, we are now recruiting for a Depot Manager.Reporting to the Director of Secondary Logistics this role will play a key part of our success journey, and you will have the opportunity to be involved in the following:

Role Responsibilities:

• Leading the day-to-day operations of a complex warehouse and logistics process to meet the service levels required within budget costs.
• Responsible for the Health & Safety of the depot operations & people including visitors and contracts.
• Continuing with the forward movement of the depot including improvement through standardising ways of working in line with the company expectations of Customer Service Levels.
• Develop capability of teams and individuals including Succession Planning and Performance Management.
• Responsibility for complex warehouse and logistics process covering incoming goods planning and receipt, warehousing, pick, pack, and distribution.
• Manage the site within Logistics KPI’s established by our customers
• Role model level leadership capability, developing manager capability through the team.
• Constantly search out new opportunities, technology, and solutions to our network challenges to ensure continuous improvement of our services.

Experience and Key Attributes:

• Experience of working within a network where depots are interdependent on other depots for the movement of stock to meet Customer Orders and maintain stock levels.
• Transport Manager National CPC, a Degree in Supply Chain or an IOSH certification
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives, implementing SOPs across a networks and maintaining a high quality of work across a complex network.
• Proven experience in managing change, and implement improvement programs (Operational Excellence, Lean, TPM, SixSigma) to achieve budgeted targets.
• Proven track record as a people manager, leading and developing your team to success
• Experience in Warehouse and Distribution
• Experience managing change involving people, processes, and procedures.
• Thrives on ownership, action orientated, and results driven.

This is an exciting time to join our newly formed business – with their incredible individual history’s, innovation of products and some of the UK’s most iconic brands, Carlsberg Britvic strives to deliver the best service to our customers and consumers. We aim to make a difference, bringing together two diverse companies, our global reach enables opportunity, growth and a chance to work with some fantastic people. If you need reasonable adjustments made to the recruitment process, please reach out to your recruiter, who will be able to advise and support you.

Interested in finding out more? Apply today and a member of the recruitment team will be in touch!

Application Process:

We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled anytime, so please apply as early as possible.
We look forward to receiving your application.

Please submit applications by Sunday 17th August . All applications will be reviewed w/c Monday 18th August and updated accordingly. If you have any questions prior to Monday 18th August, please contact Imogen Yates via email to

CMBC is a new company, fuelled by highly engaged, empowered and passionate employees who will go above and beyond to deliver best in class customer service and help grow our portfolio of brands and business. With their entrepreneurial spirit, these employees take personal accountability and initiative to act and find solutions. Our employees work hard and have fun, enjoying supportive relationships that extend across the whole business.

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