Warehouse Operations Manager
Are you an experienced Warehouse Operational Leader? Are you a strong people-person with a drive to develop relationships? Are you from a food or beverage background?
Here at GXO, we are currently on the lookout for a Warehouse Operations Manager to join our Costa Coffee team in Wellingborough. You will drive “best in class” service whilst ensuring an efficient warehouse operation. You will be people focused and strive to maintain and develop your team whilst having a strong customer relationship.
Pay, benefits and more:
We’re looking to offer a salary range of between £58,000.00 to £68,000.00 dependent on experience and 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:
- Plan and control all warehouse activities to ensure client service KPI’s are achieved
- Control of operational costs in accordance with agreed budgets
- Recruitment, training, discipline, development and deployment of staff.
- Provision of adequate levels of supervision, guidance, communication and opportunities for staff involvement
- Through effective leadership and clearly defined processes, ensure an operationally robust programme for building ’world-class’ health and safety standards, including Food and Hygiene and HSE requirements
- Comply with NSF/BRCGS standards
- Maintaining high standards of customer service throughout all areas of responsibility
- The control of goods receipt, replenishment, stock control operations and associated administration
What you need to succeed at GXO:
- Good working knowledge of known WMS systems, including voice-pick
- Strong leadership, communication and influencing skills, very people-focussed
- A track record of service improvements through cultural change/staff development
- Experience in warehouse management, from either Food, Retail or FMCG environments with experience of working in multi-temperature environments is highly desirable
- Experience in warehouse management utilising cage/tote pick distribution methods
- Significant budgetary and labour control
- A track record of service improvements through cultural change/staff development with experience of rapidly and successfully integrating new customer demands
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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