Logistics Manager

What you'll be doing

• A major part of the role will be leading our relationships with our 3PL warehouse partners.
• You'll establish clear expectations, track performance against meaningful KPIs and make sure actions are followed through when things aren't where they need to be.
• You'll have a strong commercial focus too, managing logistics costs, challenging storage, handling, fuel and additional charges, and identifying opportunities to improve utilisation and productivity.
• You'll also:
  • Lead the commissioning and operational start-up of new or changing warehouse operations, ensuring effective mobilisation and readiness.
  • Lead warehouse transitions and transfers across inbound and outbound operations, coordinating activity across internal teams, customers and logistics partners.
  • Plan and manage customer migration, stock transfers and systems cutover, ensuring clear ownership, sequencing and operational control throughout.
  • Identify and manage service risks during warehouse transitions, putting appropriate contingency and mitigation plans in place to protect customer service.
  • Own stock accuracy performance across our external logistics network, ensuring discrepancies are properly understood and resolved.
  • Translate production and demand plans into clear warehouse and transport capacity requirements.
  • Identify capacity constraints and operational risks early and put effective plans in place.
  • Ensure our logistics network supports customer service and OTIF performance.
  • Lead the resolution of recurring logistics and service issues.
  • Support contract renewals, tenders and commercial negotiations with logistics partners.
  • Lead agreed warehouse, logistics, rail and multimodal improvements.
  • Provide clear reporting across service, cost, stock, capacity, risks and actions.
  • Lead, support and develop the Logistics team, creating clear accountability and helping people perform at their best.
  • Continuously look for better ways of working across the logistics network.

About you

• You'll bring strong experience within logistics, warehousing or 3PL management, ideally gained within FMCG, manufacturing or another high-volume environment.
• Crucially, you'll have experience of warehouse commissioning, start-up or significant operational transition.
• You'll understand what it takes to move from planning into live operation while maintaining control of stock, systems, service and customer requirements.
• You’ll be comfortable operating at both an operational and commercial level - able to get into the detail when required while keeping sight of wider business priorities.

We’d particularly like to hear from you if you have:

• Strong experience managing external logistics or warehousing partners.
• Experience commissioning or starting up warehouse operations.
• Experience leading warehouse transitions or transfers, covering inbound and outbound operations.
• Practical experience of customer migration, stock transfers and systems cutover.
• Experience identifying and managing service risk during major logistics or warehouse change.
• A good commercial understanding of warehousing and transport operations.
• Experience managing inventory controls and stock accuracy.
• Strong supplier-management and negotiation capability.
• Confidence using data to understand performance and constructively challenge where required.
• Strong organisational skills and a reputation for following things through.
• Experience leading and developing others.
• The ability to take a strategy or pla

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