Depot Manager

At Te Mātāpuna Fonterra, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves.

Whether you\’re early in your career or ready for your next step, Fonterra offers a unique opportunity to grow with a global dairy co-operative that values care, collaboration, and contribution.

Owned by New Zealand dairy farmers and supported by a dedicated team, we are all working together to create a better future. Imagine tomorrow with us, where your career can grow, and you can create positive change.

Our Clandeboye Transport Depot is Fonterra’s largest Transport team, home to our whanau of 255 drivers manning 73 trucks. At peak, the team collects and moves up to 19million litres of milk and milk products from our farmer shareholders spanning from the Lower Waitaki region through to North Canterbury.

About the opportunity | Te whai waahi

Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for operations and transport?

We’re looking for a Depot Manager to take charge of our busy depot, driving performance, safety, and team engagement. As Depot Manager, you’ll be responsible for the day-to-day running of the Clandeboye Transport depot, ensuring efficient operations, high service standards, and a motivated team. You’ll play a key role in delivering world class asset care, utilisation, best in class transport operation and supporting strategic growth.

With this large scope, a major focus is on leading and engaging a large team of 5 direct and up to 250 indirect reports, including team managers, operations assistants and tanker operators. You’ll be responsible for both quality and the health and safety of your team as well as meeting long-term business objectives. You will do this by creating a feeling of belonging and strong team morale through clarifying and reinforcing the team’s goals, purpose and behaviour through effective coaching and management.

This role will provide you with huge exposure managing Fonterra\’s largest and most critical transport regions, working closely with Depot Managers from other areas and developing strong working relationships internal and external to Fonterra. Reporting to Site Operations Manager, you will be a key member of the site leadership team, adding value through the delivery of key business metrics by increasing capability in both our people and processes.

About you | Moe koe

To excel in this role, you’ll be an experienced Depot or Transport Manager or come from a comparable large leadership role, but more so you will be an inspirational and engaging leader, with an earnest passion for people and culture.

You will have the natural ability to build a high performing team culture and provide innovative solutions in a busy, complex and fast-paced environment. You will ideally have experience within transport, logistics and/or manufacturing and a passion for people and safety. You will be composed under pressure, with invaluable people skills, be adaptable, innovative and have a proven record of success in both quality and efficiency. You’ll play a key role in delivering operational excellence and leading cultural transformation.

Other relevant skills and experience include:

• Proven success of leadership and effective team engagement, development, and culture transformation
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills and ability to connect and collaborate with cross-functional teams from across the business
• A passion for improvement and ability to deal with change
• Experience of leading and influencing a unionised workforce
• Strong commercial acumen with experience managing and delivering large budgets
• Monitoring KPIs and using data-driven insights to optimize performance such as labour and asset utilisation

At Fonterra, our values of Good Together, Better Every Day, and Every Drop Counts, are for everyone – no matter your background, identify or experience. These values guide us in delivering exceptional outcomes for our farmers, customers, communities, and each other. Discover how your values align with ours by taking our Values Quiz here .

We care for our people globally. Our comprehensive benefits support your well-being, development, and work-life balance:

• Fair and equitable pay
• Health and well-being programs (medical, mental health support)
• Work-life balance options (flexible/hybrid working where possible)
• Parental leave support
• Employee recognition
• Support for community involvement and cultural connection

At Te Mātāpuna Fonterra, be inspired by purpose and guided by our principles and values.

Create goodness for generations and make a global impact at a local level.

As part of our Co-operative, be an everyday creator, imagining what Fonterra, dairy, and you can be here.

Does this sound good to you? Come join our whānau – bring your whole self, and let\’s solve for better together.

He Wāhi mō te Katoa | Together, we\’re shaping a future of inclusion.

Inclusion is key to our Co-operative. We\’re building a team that reflects the diverse world we live in, believing it drives better decisions and innovation.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds (ethnicities, genders, identities, orientations, ages, abilities, neurotypes, cultures, religions).

Even if you don\’t meet every requirement listed, we encourage you to apply; we value potential and growth.

If you face accessibility issues or need accommodations during the process, please contact your recruiter. We ensure fair participation, allowing you to be at your best. Tātou, tātou.

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