Site Logistics Manager in Bristol

Nisbets Limited are currently recruiting for a Site Logistics Manager (PM shift) to join our Logistics team and play a key role in driving operational excellence, colleague performance, and continuous improvement across our sites. This role will be based on-site at our Digital Hub in Avonmouth. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the PM operation to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the site, delivering consistently high standards of safety, quality, productivity, and customer service. This is a highly collaborative role, working closely with Transport, Development, and Continuous Improvement teams to optimise processes, improve site performance, and support strategic decision making. You will lead initiatives to embed continuous improvement, champion new technologies, manage site costs, and develop a high performing team. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive, adaptable, and commercially minded leader with strong warehousing and operational management experience.

Responsibilities

• Team Management

• Recruit, train and manage colleagues, Team Leaders and Supervisors.
• Set performance goals, conduct 6 monthly performance reviews, and provide coaching and constructive feedback.
• Foster a positive, collaborative One Team culture.

• Champion the Nisbets Continuous Improvement Programme across the management team, ensuring adherence to parameters and regular audits.
• Identify, implement, and embed new ways of working or technology solutions to improve site performance.
• Monitor and control operational costs while maintaining high quality standards.
• Lead and participate in CI projects, identifying opportunities for efficiency and productivity enhancements.

• Ensure full compliance with all regulatory requirements and safety standards.
• Implement and maintain robust health & safety protocols.
• Act promptly on any compliance issues.
• Maintain and continuously improve service and quality control standards.

• Collaborate cross functionally to meet customer expectations and resolve operational issues.
• Identify opportunities to elevate the customer experience.

• Contribute to the development and management of the site budget.
• Understand cost drivers, including COS% and actual spend.
• Use forecasting models to set productivity expectations for the 13 week forecast.
• Resource effectively across permanent staff, agency labour and overtime to balance flexibility with cost control.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in warehousing, preferably within an FMCG environment.
• Strong leadership and people management capability.
• Experience providing operational briefings at all levels, from colleagues through to board.
• Strong decision making and problem solving skills.
• Knowledge of health & safety regulations.
• Demonstrable experience in budget and financial management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

Nisbets is committed to providing equality of opportunity for all colleagues. We aim to ensure our workplaces are free from discrimination and that not only colleagues but also our potential future colleagues are treated fairly and with dignity and respect. Therefore, please inform us of any reasonable adjustments that we may need to make to the application or interview process.

Here at Nisbets, we aim high and we dream big. From a one-man operation in 1983, to the UKs market leader today its always been our determination to hit whatever goal we set ourselves, no matter how big. And weve done it time and time again.

We are looking for experts. Passionate, forward thinkers who obsess about our customers as much as we do. We need strivers, trailblazers and problem solvers who are as determined to grow, develop and succeed as we are.

We are determined to take the next step. But we need your help to do it. Its all about you.

If you are looking for a forward-thinking business on which to leave your mark; where your work is valued; where you will test your skills and then develop them further than you thought you could - Nisbets is for you.

You will be pushing the boundaries with us, day in day out. You will work in a fast-paced, ever changing environment. You will collaborate with a wide range of other experts around the business, bringing big ideas to life, and play a leading role in taking our journey to the next level.

We are a business with heart. From the small indie diner to the Michelin-star restaurant, Nisbets deliver the equipment they need to excel. If you join our team you will be working in a family-owned business that isn't afraid to let you grow. That understands the value of innovation. And that puts our impact on the environment, our commitment to ethical trading and our determination to being a fully transparent business at the forefront of all we do.

Ready to take the next step with us? Apply today.