Senior Warehouse Shift Manager

Are you an experienced Shift Manager? Are you ready for your next step? Do you want the opportunity to excel?

Here at GXO, we are looking for Senior Warehouse Shift Manager for our drinks site in Derby. You will be supporting business growth and strengthen operational capability, support effective succession planning, and provide dedicated support to the Operations Manager. You will help ensure continuity of leadership, reduce operational risk, and maintain performance stability during periods of absence or transition. You will also enhance day to day decision making, improve responsiveness to operational challenges, and enable greater focus on strategic priorities by alleviating capacity pressures at management level. You will contribute to improved productivity, consistency in service delivery, and stronger stakeholder engagement across the function. Additionally, you will support talent development within the team, creating a clear pipeline of future leaders.

This is a full time, permanent position, working Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week with 30 min paid break, 09:00 to 17:00. Some flexibility is required, this is logistics after all!

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £48,000.00 and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, 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:

• Overall responsibility for the Warehouse function with management of legal and operational compliance for the department
• Management, control and reporting of all costs, KPIs and operational statistics within budget
• Effective communication with the customer and internal colleagues and managing and leading a performance driven team
• Workforce planning and effective resourcing to cope with picking volumes and recruitment, learning and development and colleague communications
• Employee Relations, including experience dealing with Disciplinary, Absence and Grievance matters
• Challenge current practices through the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiencies and effectively manage costs
• Responsible for ensuring financial competitiveness of the warehouse

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Previous experience in a Warehouse Management role with commercial and financial awareness, including budgeting
• IOSH Managing Safely
• The ability to manage disciplinary, absence and grievance meetings
• Computer literate in Microsoft Office with preferred experience in DLX / SAP
• ILM (Institute of Leadership & Management) – Level 3–5 in Leadership & Management
• CILT (Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport)
• Six Sigma / Lean Manufacturing certifications

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.