Warehousing and Despatch Manager

Overview

Job Title: Warehousing and Despatch Manager

Location: Oldham

Salary: 55k per year + Pension + Bonus + PMI

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Purpose

To lead and motivate (through two Team Leaders), a team of 20+ shift-based drivers, ensuring delivery targets and objectives (KPI\’s) and strategy, through a culture of continuous improvement. Ensuring that all activities are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards of quality, customer service, and stock control.

A hands-on leader, directly contributing to the overall achievement of the wider business objectives by solving problems, exploiting opportunities, developing standards / systems, and managing change.

Key Requirements

• Proven warehouse management experience (manufacturing / logistics preferred)
• Relevant quality management and systems experience
• Previous experience working within a busy operational management team, leading people

Leadership Attributes

• Clarity of Vision – Understand the totality of the situation and see clearly what needs to be done and how to achieve it.
• Coaching and Mentoring Skills – Coach and support employees to ensure skills and practices are embedded.
• Analytical Ability – Translate business objectives into realistic plans.
• External Orientation – Has a clear understanding of the external environment, and the changing needs of the internal / external customer.
• Entrepreneurial Drive – Is constantly energised to improve business results in both the short and long term. Takes initiatives and has the tenacity and resilience to ensure achievement.
• Leadership of Teams – Inspires teams to support business direction, develops team capability.
• Leadership of Individuals – Inspires subordinates, sets high standards for performance. Holds subordinates accountable for achieving these standards. Build skills and capabilities of subordinates.
• Influencing Skills – Successfully influences without hierarchical power and maintains positive relationships with colleagues.
• Integrity – Stands up for convictions / values and takes difficult decisions. Admits mistakes freely and openly.
• Commitment to team – Works co-operatively as a member of a team and is committed to the overall team objectives rather than own interests.
• Learn – Actively learns from own failures / successes and those of others.
• Manages and Respects Differences – Able to manage diversity in such a way that enables / promotes creativity and innovation.

Principle Accountabilities

• Ensure all Health & Safety and Quality standards are in place, understood, and adhered to.
• In conjunction with the HR Director ensure operations staff are trained and competent to undertake relevant duties – including flexibility / mobility of labour throughout the operation.
• Plan and monitor workloads, shift pattern, overtime, and holiday cover to ensure continuity of operations
• Work closely with the site Production Manager to ensure all manufacturing lines are suitably serviced.
• Optimise use of available space through dynamic allocation of \’zones\’ for internal board stock, finished goods stock bays, loading bays, stand trailers, outside warehousing, and shunting operations.
• Ensure stock accuracy is maintained through product scanning, labelling, cyclical stock checks
• Ensure FIFO stock rotation principles are in place and adhered to including the timely management of quarantined stock, obsolete stock, and part pallets.
• Safeguard customer service through on-time loading and unloading of outbound and inbound deliveries.
• Provide reports / analysis and opportunities for improvement recommendations for relevant KPIs.
• To undertake other roles and tasks as requested that are commensurate with the level and function of this post.
• Play an active part in the wider Operations Management Team to deliver added value to the business.

Key Performance Indicators

• Accident / incident Rates.
• Quality complaints / incidents / waste.
• Customer service levels.
• Labour Utilisation (Cost per ksm / overtime / headcount).
• Absence levels.
• Warehouse related downtime e.g. manufacturing not waiting for FLT resource.

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Distribution Manager, Warehouse Operations Manager, Logistics Manager, Inventory Manager, Supply Chain Manager, Despatch Manager, Warehouse Manager, may also be considered for this role.