Operations Manager in Nuneaton

As an LKQ Digraph Operations Manager, your role is key in ensuring that the branch team are aligned in order to deliver excellence. You are responsible for ensuring that our colleagues represent LKQ Digraph professionally when dealing with both external customers and internal partners. If you would like to join an ever growing business, are passionate in empowering your peers and developing their talent, then please read on.

We are a people first organisation for our colleagues, the customer is at the heart of everything we do, and in turn we put our colleagues at the forefront of our business. As with many of our roles, we are happy to talk about flexible working options, we are committed to supporting a healthy work-life balance. We’re looking for people who love what they do, are passionate about delivering only the very best and make it their business to excel, whatever their role. We strive to support all our employees through their individual career paths and thrive within our business.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with your Branch Manager to support them in motivating a large team to put their best foot forward; this includes line management responsibility for the operations team.
• Responsibility for all operations in branch in order to ensure that we hit our operational KPI’s.
• Have an enthusiastic willingness to have a daily involvement in HR, performance management, succession planning and recruitment; our people are our most valuable asset.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety and branch standards; we need you to lead from the front and drive our safety first culture.
• Stock takes/audits, fleet management.
• Actively demonstrate behaviour in line with our Company core values.
• Promote a customer focused mindset within the branch.

Skills and Experience

• Leadership experience, with high levels of focus, energy and drive.
• Great communication skills; demonstrate the ability to manage customer accounts, both cash and credit.
• Good experience of managing stock takes and audits, with the ability to control stock and put measures in place to do so.
• Solid Health and Safety background.
• Demonstrate a passion and willingness to develop in the above areas, if not already having solid experience.

What we offer

• Pension.
• 25 days annual leave.
• Genuine career progression.
• Access to a 24 hour Employee Assistance Programme, offering financial and wellbeing support.

As part of LKQ Corporation, the world's largest auto parts provider, LKQ Digraph is the driving force keeping vehicles moving in the UK and Ireland. We employ colleagues in logistics and supply chain, to indoor or field based sales, or finance and legal, to marketing, communications and HR - the world really is your oyster when you work for LKQ Digraph.