Job Title Warehouse Manager Location Bristol, BS35 3UT GB (Main)
Job Description
Working in partnership with M&S, at Gist we deliver industry-leading logistics and supply chain transformation.
We value, celebrate, and believe in the power of individuality and strive to create a work environment where everyone can be themselves. We want you to join us, bring your authentic self to work and unlock your full potential.
Gist is currently recruiting for a Warehouse Manager to join our Thornbury, Bristol site on a full-time Permanent basis.
As Warehouse Manager, you will be responsible for leading a group of Site Operations Managers to ensure the efficient and cost-effective fulfilment of customer requirements. The Warehouse Manager will report to the General manager of the site and help shape the business and its objectives as part of the senior leadership team at site. You’ll also support build the operational structure and create teams that can implement and sustain continuous improvement, as well as be responsible for the people agenda and ensuring that your team understand the key priorities and can monitor performance effectively.
What’s in it for you?
Gist is an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and evolving business built on our core values. Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for Gist just that little bit more special…
1. 20% M&S discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food
2. 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (rising with length of service)
3. Car Allowance
4. Discounted rates on healthcare cash plan
5. Private Medical Health Insurance
6. Attractive annual bonus scheme, based on M&S performance and personal objectives
7. Auto Enrolment Pension or competitive Defined Contribution Pension Scheme
8. Life assurance (up to 4 times salary)
9. Access to a wide range of wellbeing support – including our Employee Assistance Programme
10. A first-class welcome with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development
11. Cycle to work scheme
Role details:
Salary: Circa £62,000 per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week
Working pattern: Any 5 from 7
Location: Gist Ltd, Short Way, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 3UT
What you’ll do:
Your key accountabilities will include:
12. Maintaining a continued focus around safety, ensuring the safety of our people and colleagues is your first priority
13. Creating a stable and high performing team within the warehouse function
14. Succession and development of Warehouse Site Operations Managers, Team Managers, Apprentices and Operatives ensuring a healthy internal pipeline within our organisation
15. Building and owning the warehouse business plan
16. Driving best in class performance, continuous improvement and efficiency within the warehouse function through your people
17. Delivering bottom up ownership of risk management and compliance
18. Delivering exemplary service to our customers with sustainable year on year improvement
19. Identifying, securing and executing growth opportunities with our customer
20. Effectively motivate, manage and inspire your Operations Managers to develop and grow the skills of their teams, to perform at the highest possible standard
21. Effectively manage the levels of manpower and other resources required to meet the customers SLA’s
22. Standing-in for the General Manager during periods of absence – acting up as a manager to your peers and their teams and fulfilling the GM’s duties in full
23. Proposing innovative ideas and suggestions for improvement – encouraging and listening to the suggestions and opinions of those around you to enhance the service we provide to our customers
24. Ensuring all requirements relating to safety, health, environment and quality are being fully implemented – where any issues arise, promote our Involve culture to enable your teams, and the wider teams to lead the way in solving these issues and ensuring a 100% safe environment at all times
25. Ensuring compliance with all Hygiene and Safety statutory requirements
Who you are:
Your skills and experience will include:
26. Versatile, with a well-rounded operational background
27. Motivational, forward thinking and adaptable style of management – consistently investing in your team to ensure that they are given every opportunity to succeed and develop
28. Ability to identify and evaluate potential risks and, where possible, develop solutions to mitigate these
29. An open-minded approach to management – encouraging the views of others, and investing in them, giving the team themselves the opportunity to implement positive change
30. Excellent understanding of reporting and recording performance statistics
31. Strong working knowledge of different systems and how to fully utilise them
32. Excellent relationship building skills
33. An understanding of Trade unions and how best to resolve an issues which may arise
34. Desire to fully embrace being part of a wider team – happy to lend a hand to others where needed
Why Gist?
At Gist we are united by our core values; with safety and people at the heart of everything do, we are progressive, accountable, collaborative, and ethical.
Our objective is to establish a performance-focused environment that is fair and inclusive, where everyone can develop, and connect meaningfully to their manager, the Gist vision, and M&S. We are fiercely protective of everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing, and align firmly to M&S’s sustainability commitments in Plan A.
Gist will play an integral part in the M&S journey as it pushes boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring era. As part of the M&S group, there’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Join us and make an immediate impact.
Gist aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment. If it’s meaningful to you, it’s important to us.
Our Internal Recruitment Team fulfil all vacancies on a direct basis. Unsolicited contact by unapproved agencies (sharing speculative CVs) will not be accepted and introductory fees will not apply.
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Recruiter Kobayashi, Stephanie