Operations Manager

Are you a Warehouse Operational Leader looking to take the next steps in your career? Or perhaps you’re an experienced Warehouse Operations Manager who feels ready for their next opportunity to make their mark?

Here at GXO we have an exciting new opportunity for an Operations Manager to join our multiuser site in Ollerton. You’ll play a vital role in supporting the senior leadership team in ensuring colleagues meet or exceed operational requirements for our customers. This will involve organising colleagues and supervising workload to meet targets and KPIs, within the agreed timeframe.

This is a full-time, permanent role, with a shift pattern Monday – Friday 8:00am-4pm. However, some flexibility on hours and days will be required. This is logistics, after all.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £55,000. In addition, we offer 33 days annual leave (inclusive of 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:

• Review and evaluate the warehouse plans daily making recommendations for changes as appropriate to ensure all KPI’s are achieved and improved upon
• To manage and control all warehouse operational areas and ensure customer satisfaction and KPI’s are achieved to maintain and improve effective relationships with the customer.
• To understand the operational elements of the site’s budget to ensure that operational costs are controlled, and that waste of time, money and unnecessary costs are minimised.
• To attend regular agency review with the site HRM to assess supplier performance V forecast and to assess areas for concern for the coming month / season or peak period. 

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Experience managing a fast-paced warehouse operation within a senior leadership role
• Understanding & demonstrable experience of managing an E-fulfilment Operation
• Ability to establish and manage continuous improvement initiatives, whilst driving efficiency
• Highly analytical and IT literate, with experience of WMS systems

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.

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