About The Role
Do you thrive on making things happen today—not tomorrow?
As a Depot Manager, you’ll be the driving force behind our Luton Depot’s success. Your mission is to deliver outstanding operational performance while empowering your team to make the right decisions—even when they’re not the easy ones.
You’ll set the standard for excellence by ensuring compliance with operational policies, transport legislation, health and safety, and people management. Your leadership will create a productive, positive environment where your team can excel.
Working closely with our District and Depot Management teams, you’ll play a key role in shaping a strong, sustainable future for our operations.
Salary: between £38,000.00 and £42,000.00 per annum
Hours: Monday-Friday (37.5 hours per week)
Job type: Full time / Permanent contract
Location: Park Avenue Industrial Estate, Park Avenue, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 3BP
Here's What You Can Expect To Be Doing
Leadership and Support:
Lead a motivated and engaged workforce, ensuring a positive working environment that drives success across all teams.
Foster a fun and supportive culture, ensuring the wellbeing and development of all direct reports through coaching, support and encouragement.
Manage self-employed drivers, addressing any challenges, managing expectations and working closely with your Driver Account Manager.
Execute HR Procedures such as investigations, disciplinary meetings and performance management with fairness and consistency.
Operational Excellence:
Monitor and manage depot performance against agreed Key Performance indicators to ensure continuous improvement.
Manage the depot's budget, including cost management and ensuring cost-effective delivery.
Ensure the depot remains fully compliant with transport legislation and operational requirements.
Maintain high operational efficiency through effective people management, setting clear performance expectations and ensuring the smooth execution of daily tasks.
Provide daily and weekly reports to the District Manager
A Few Things About You
Excellent logistical knowledge including transport legislation
CPC is desirable but not essential
Understanding and ability to manage budgets effectively
Understand all relevant Health and Safety legislation
Ability to interpret and analyse data and produce management reports
Be able to challenge the existing processes, identify inefficiencies, and implement changes to continuously improve service delivery
Ensure your team consistently delivers a high level of service that meets customer expectations, ensuring long-term satisfaction and loyalty
Be able to provide a fair and constant approach to people management
Promote a culture where the team members are supported, motivated and operation at full potential
AO is for everyone:
When it comes to appliances and electricals, we’ve got the lot. Washing machines? Yep. TVs? Check. Laptops? Absolutely. Everything except doorbells (just kidding, we’ve got those too).
We’re known for helping our customers brilliantly - and it’s no different for AOers. We care about more than what’s on your CV, because together we can do extraordinary things.
Our Benefits
33 days holiday (Including Bank Holidays)
At least 5% contribution pension scheme
Healthcare Cashback Scheme
Exclusive Staff Discount
Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Packages
Expression of wish service
Make a difference days (x2 fully paid charity days a year)
Share-save Scheme
To see all our benefits and perks, visit our AO Benefits page