Manager in Training in Glasgow

Most Goods In Managers spend their first two years tidying up someone else's operation. This one is the opposite. You'd be walking into a site that already works, at the exact moment it gets significantly bigger. We're working with a well-established food business on the appointment of a Goods In Manager for their site near Glasgow. The role is a brand-new one, purely due to growth.

Here's what's actually on the table. A big capex project is currently racking out a third chamber. When it lands, cold storage capacity on site grows by around 60%. This is happening now, and whoever takes this role owns how it gets absorbed into the operation.

The structure underneath you is fluid, and the business has been open about that. Around 5 or 6 direct reports, plus around 60 people across intake and raw materials, plus the yard and forklift team. If you'd run it differently, they want to hear it. That's an unusually honest starting position, and it's rare to be handed a team of that size and told to shape it rather than protect it.

The work itself doesn't get boring. Alongside the full-pallet volume, the site handles major retailer products and it demands a reactive, thinking style of management rather than a repetitive one. There's multi-million pounds of raw material sitting on site at any given time, regular vehicles in per day, and hundreds of pallets out. Add in operations that peak seasonally and no two days look identical.

You'd also get to properly own a system rather than fight one. A bespoke WMS, Power BI screens live on the floor driving pallet allocation. If you're someone who has always suspected the data could be doing more for you, this is a site where that's already half-built.

And it's a Monday to Friday role which could be a huge positive if you're currently doing a mix of shifts. Honestly, there might be some weekend flexibility expected while the new structure settles, but this isn't a permanent rotating weekend commitment.

What you'll need:

• Experience running goods in, intake or a cold store at real volume. Hundreds of pallets a day, not 50.
• A chilled or frozen background, chilled food is pretty much what we want to see though.
• The credibility to lead 60 people through line leaders, and the appetite to develop those line leaders rather than work around them.
• Genuine systems capability. You'll be expected to own the WMS, not delegate it.
• Discipline around booking schedules, timings and adherence, the kind that comes from a process-driven environment.
• Major retailer experience would be a real advantage.

If you've been quietly wondering whether your current site is ever going to invest, or ever going to let you change anything, this is worth a 20 minute conversation.

Location: Glasgow area (relocation support available if required)

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000, depending on experience

Looking for candidates with the following backgrounds:

• Goods In Manager
• Warehouse Manager
• Intake Manager
• Cold Store Manager
• Raw Materials Manager
• Depot Manager
• Operations Manager (Warehousing)
• Warehouse Shift Manager

This role is being advertised by Redhook Global Talent on behalf of one of its clients. Redhook Global Talent is a specialist recruitment firm dedicated to the global protein industry.