Warehouse Team Leader (Afternoons)

Are you someone who enjoys a challenge and seeks to push themselves and others to succeed? Are you feeling stagnant in your current role and crave a place that promotes growth and celebrates your strengths? Do you want to be a part of developing contract?

We are currently searching for an experienced Warehouse Team Leader to join our team at our site in Bedford. You will lead a team and coordinate activities to achieve business goals by focusing on continuous improvement and promoting a team-based culture.

This is a full-time, permanent position with a Sunday to Thursday shift pattern, covering the hours of 14:00 – 22:00.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £30,450.00 per annum, and 28 days annual leave inclusive bank holidays. Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more! 

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• You’ll operate as a working team member and conduct tasks in all areas of the warehouse

• Ensure that they and individuals within their team comply with working practices that result in delivering a clean and safe workplace

• Providing focus on health & safety, productivity, accuracy, and quality by helping to lead the operational shift team by encouraging a team ethic to achieve daily targets for each shift

• Monitor progress and performance against key performance indicators and costs against budget

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Knowledge of the end-to-end warehouse processes and health and safety

• Experience working in a complex, fast-moving logistics/warehouse environment

• The ability to work on your own initiative, whilst effectively leading a team

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.