Warehouse Manager

Working in partnership with M&S, at Gist we deliver industry-leading logistics and supply chain transformation.

We value, celebrate, and believe in the power of individuality and strive to create a work environment where everyone can be themselves. We want you to join us, bring your authentic self to work and unlock your full potential.

Gist is currently recruiting for a Warehouse Manager to join our Enfield site on a full-time Permanent basis .

As Warehouse Manager , you will be responsible for leading a group of Site Operations Managers to ensure the efficient and cost-effective fulfilment of customer requirements.

The Warehouse Manager will report to the General Manager of the site and help shape the business and its objectives as part of the senior leadership team at the site. You’ll also support building the operational structure and create teams that can implement and sustain continuous improvement, as well as be responsible for the people agenda and ensuring that your team understands the key priorities and can monitor performance effectively.

What’s in it for you?

Gist is an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and evolving business built on our core values. Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for Gist just that little bit more special:

• 20% M&S discount on most things from furniture, fashion, and food
• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (rising with length of service)
• Discounted rates on healthcare cash plan
• Private Medical Health Insurance
• Attractive annual bonus scheme, based on M&S performance and personal objectives
• Auto Enrolment Pension or competitive Defined Contribution Pension Scheme
• Life assurance (up to 4 times salary)
• Access to a wide range of wellbeing support – including our Employee Assistance Programme
• A first-class welcome with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development
• Cycle to work scheme

Salary: Competitive
Hours: 37.5 per week
Working pattern: Any 5 from 7
Location: Gist Ltd, 158 Brancroft Way, Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 7QP

What you’ll do:

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Maintaining a continued focus around safety, ensuring the safety of our people and colleagues is your first priority
• Creating a stable and high performing team within the warehouse function
• Succession and development of Warehouse Site Operations Managers, Team Managers, Apprentices, and Operatives ensuring a healthy internal pipeline within our organisation
• Building and owning the warehouse business plan
• Driving best in class performance, continuous improvement, and efficiency within the warehouse function through your people
• Delivering bottom-up ownership of risk management and compliance
• Delivering exemplary service to our customers with sustainable year-on-year improvement
• Identifying, securing, and executing growth opportunities with our customers
• Effectively motivate, manage, and inspire your Operations Managers to develop and grow the skills of their teams, to perform at the highest possible standard
• Effectively manage the levels of manpower and other resources required to meet the customers SLA’s
• Standing-in for the General Manager during periods of absence – acting up as a manager to your peers and their teams and fulfilling the GM’s duties in full
• Proposing innovative ideas and suggestions for improvement – encouraging and listening to the suggestions and opinions of those around you to enhance the service we provide to our customers
• Ensuring all requirements relating to safety, health, environment, and quality are being fully implemented – where any issues arise, promote our Involve culture to enable your teams, and the wider teams to lead the way in solving these issues and ensuring a 100% safe environment at all times
• Ensuring compliance with all Hygiene and Safety statutory requirements

Who you are:

Your skills and experience will include:

• Versatile, with a well-rounded operational background
• Motivational, forward-thinking, and adaptable style of management – consistently investing in your team to ensure that they are given every opportunity to succeed and develop
• Ability to identify and evaluate potential risks and, where possible, develop solutions to mitigate these
• An open-minded approach to management – encouraging the views of others, and investing in them, giving the team themselves the opportunity to implement positive change
• Excellent understanding of reporting and recording performance statistics
• Strong working knowledge of different systems and how to fully utilise them
• Excellent relationship building skills
• An understanding of Trade unions and how best to resolve an issues which may arise
• Desire to fully embrace being part of a wider team – happy to lend a hand to others where needed

Why Gist?

At Gist we are united by our core values; with safety and people at the heart of everything we do, we are progressive, accountable, collaborative, and ethical.

Our objective is to establish a performance-focused environment that is fair and inclusive, where everyone can develop, and connect meaningfully to their manager, the Gist vision, and M&S. We are fiercely protective of everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing, and align firmly to M&S’s sustainability commitments in Plan A.

Gist will play an integral part in the M&S journey as it pushes boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring era. As part of the M&S group, there’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Join us and make an immediate impact.

Gist aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment. If it’s meaningful to you, it’s important to us.

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