General Manager

Do you have strong site management experience in a large-scale distribution operation? Are you a confident leader with a keen eye for detail and eagerness for continuous improvement? Are you commercially focused with the ability to drive change and operational improvements?

Here at GXO, we are currently recruiting for a General Manager to join our team in Swindon, supporting our customer Iceland. As a General Manager, you will provide inspirational leadership and management for the two fast-paced sites in Swindon while continuing to develop added value to customer propositions in order to strengthen organisational dependencies and partnership while maintaining and building on the site safety culture within the operations.

This is a full time, permanent position, predominately working, Monday to Friday, 08:00 till 17:00.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £105,000.00 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company car or car allowance of £595.00 per calendar month plus a performance-related bonus, 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:

• Responsibility for all warehouse, transport and supporting operations through effective performance management while achieving operational delivery performance and adherence to all company and customer/Site KPI’s
• Create and deliver effective leadership of the depot, manage defined processes and empower site to be operationally robust with a culture that is focused on maintaining and continuously improving ‘world-class’ health and safety and ESG standards
• Encourage and empower the team to take ownership of their objectives and targets and systematically track performance ensuring shortfalls are promptly addressed
• Ensure that site costs and revenue are well managed and reported accurately. Liaise with the finance team in the financial budgeting process to build the site P&L

What you need to succeed at GXO

• Significant experience in a fast-moving logistics environment; previous grocery experience would be preferred
• Strong financial acumen - you’ll be accountable for a multi-million-pound budget
• Experience of managing Trade Union relationships is advantageous
• Experience in a customer-facing role, with exposure to project management, driving change and implementing a CI culture 

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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