Warehouse Administration Manager

Do you thrive in a fast‑paced warehouse environment where strong leadership, smart systems and engaged teams make all the difference? Are you ready to take ownership of administration performance across two busy warehouses and help shape how the business operates? Keen to develop, coach and drive our team?
If so, join us as our Warehouse Administration Manager!

As our Warehouse Administration Manager, you will work closely with our Stock & Systems Manager, for our Home Delivery Network, based in Brackmills - Northampton. Leading our team of up to 28 colleagues, this is a mixture of Line Managers and Admin colleagues, to deliver efficient, compliant and high‑quality administrative operations. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you’ll drive productivity, engagement and continuous improvement whilst ensuring stock accuracy, audit integrity and legal compliance.

This is a full time, permanent position with contracted hours of 40 per week. Core hours, Monday to Friday between 8.00 am to 5.00pm (with flexibility for business needs due to operating across 3 shifts).

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £34,720.92 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Lead and develop a team of Line Managers and Administrators across two warehouses, driving engagement, performance, attendance, training and continuous improvement
• Manage administration operations and stock returns, ensuring system accuracy, audit trails, quality standards and legal compliance
• Plan and control weekly labour and workload demands, proactively identifying risks and improving administrative efficiency and productivity
• Partner with senior leadership to set, measure and deliver operational targets, taking corrective action and supporting business priorities
• Champion Health & Safety, people processes and compliance, leading investigations, disciplinary processes, and fostering a culture of open communication and lean thinking

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Proven admin team wrangler — you’ve successfully led Administration teams and know how to keep things running smoothly in a busy operation
• A brilliant communicator who can switch from shop‑floor chats to senior‑level conversations without missing a beat
• A natural leader who leads from the front, takes ownership, and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves when needed
• Tech‑savvy and confident using Google and Microsoft tools
• Health & Safety smart, with hands‑on experience keeping warehouse environments safe, compliant and audit‑ready

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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