Depot Manager in Maidstone

Depot Manager

PPG | Maidstone

Full Time | Permanent

The Role

This role oversees the smooth running of our Maidstone depot, ensuring targets are met and employees are managed. Taking responsibility for the day‑to‑day operations of the depot while meeting or exceeding all customer expectations, whilst adhering to all internal processes and procedures. Working safely is part of the PPG way, and it is the Depot Manager’s responsibility to ensure the depot complies with all H&S regulations and operates in a safe manner.

Responsibilities

• Builds Effective Teams.
• Communicates clear goals and roles to team members.
• Ensures team has the right mix of skills and leverages the strengths of individual members.
• Rewards team efforts and accomplishments.
• Effective and proactive inventory management including slow and obsolete products.
• Competent with HR processes and people management including recruitment of new employment.
• Responsible for ensuring as a minimum requirement that all service level agreements for national & major local accounts must be always met.
• Ensures KPIs are set for all team members, monitors performance and puts corrective plans in place to address underperformance.
• Responsible for ensuring company vehicles are maintained, safe, fully compliant to UK road laws and secure.
• Monitor and act on driver behaviour using in‑vehicle telematics.

Skills and Attributes Required

• Monitors progress of performance and changes approach.
• Accordingly takes ownership of teams and own work, follows through on commitments.
• Independently anticipates and meets customer needs searching for ways to improve customer performance, uses customer insights to drive innovation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong people management skills; ability to manage a small team and delegate effectively where necessary.
• Effective use of staff resource across the depot depending on business needs at the time.
• Strong numeracy and literacy skills.
• Competent IT skills including the use of Office 365, WMS, CRM, and ERP systems.
• Proactive with a positive approach to challenges.
• Self‑motivated and able to motivate others to achieve common goals.
• Able to engage with business objectives and contribute to the wider strategy.
• Must be prepared to take overall ownership, accountability, and responsibility for the depot.

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Operational experience – ideally 5 years or equivalent in paint/non‑paint to body shop end users / distributors.
• Sales or customer management experience.
• Understanding of coatings business is preferable.
• People management qualification / previous experience.
• Stock processes / inventory management.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Financial, operational & EHS compliance.
• Computer literate.
• Warehousing (picking / packing).
• Planning / transport experience including route planning.
• EHS & sustainability.
• Valid clean driving licence.

A PPG offers equality of opportunities to all candidates and employees. We offer the opportunity to grow and develop your career in an environment that provides a rewarding workplace, encourages continuous learning and values the ideas and diversity of others. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without distinction of sex, pregnancy, race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. If you need an adjustment due to a disability, please email recruiting@ppg.com.