Despatch Warehouse Manager in Leicester

Responsible for the safe, effective, and efficient warehousing operations within the business, ensuring we have cover for our operations 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. Ensuring that we are legally compliant and always audit ready whilst making sure our customers' orders are dispatched on time and in full. Lead and develop an effective warehouse strategy to achieve our short, medium, and long-term goals whilst driving operational performance and developing strong relationships both internally and externally. As a key member of the management team, you will need to contribute fully to the development of Gearys Visons and strategy.

The main responsibilities include:

• Full responsibility for Day-to-day management of the warehouse teams.
• Full Warehouse H&S Responsibility
• Full Warehouse KPI responsibility.
• Full responsibility for Issue resolution, putting solutions in place, driving a continuous improvement culture, improving our warehouse processes, and effectively communicating changes to the warehouse teams and wider business.
• Key communicator to both internal and external stakeholders
• Responsible for escalation on day-to day issues for third party haulier.
• Responsibility for making sure inventory is taken to ascertain correct stock balances, damages, and expiries.
• Identify, develop, and mentor talent across the business that creates a pipeline of successors.

At Geary's, we look for people who show up every day to do their best. We’re a passionate, friendly team and look for the same qualities in our new recruits. We firmly believe your attitude and approach is just as important (if not, more so) than the skills and experience on your CV.

What we’re looking for:

• 5 years + experience in a similar role - Essential.
• Previous experience of managing a warehouse team with more than 20+ employees indirectly before - Essential.
• A logistic, distribution and supply chain background - Essential.
• Experience of working with third party hauliers - Essential.
• Strong IT systems knowledge and skills including Excel - Essential.
• IOSH or Equivalent
• Experience of managing budgets up to 200K+ per year - Advantageous.
• Worked in a food manufacturing environment previously - Advantageous.
• Knowledge and experience of using Sage 200, Warehouse Management systems or similar - Advantageous.
• Knowledge of project management, continuous improvement, and lean techniques - Advantageous.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, at point of interview, and for the tenure of employment contract. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK. If you have not heard from us within seven days, unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion, but we wish you every success in your search for a new position.

At Geary's Bakeries, we’re on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We’re passionate about re-imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and have done, since 1906. We are 'born and bread' in Leicestershire and proud of our long-standing heritage. Today, we operate from three sites on a 24/7 operation. We’re made up of towards 900 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry. The business has grown rapidly from £5m in annual sales to £125m+ in the last 15 years with strong and consistent profitability. We have an ambition to increase sales to more than £200m+ in the next 3-5 years. A clear Vision and Strategy has been articulated, and this is being backed with major capital investment and a renewal and upgrading of the people, processes, and systems.