Depot Manager – Materials Handling
Location: West Midlands
My Client is looking for a high-calibre Depot Manager to take full ownership of its West Midlands operation.
This is not a caretaker role. You’ll run the depot as if it’s your own business accountable for people, profit, performance and customer delivery. If you’ve managed a materials handling, plant, or equipment hire depot before, you’ll know exactly what this involves.
The Role
You will have end-to-end responsibility for depot performance, covering service, sales, parts, engineers and customers.
Key responsibilities:
* Full P&L responsibility for the depot
* Leading and developing service, sales, parts and admin teams
* Driving revenue growth, utilisation and margin improvement
* Ensuring service delivery, uptime and SLAs are met
* Managing engineer productivity and depot efficiency
* Owning customer relationships and resolving escalations decisively
* Enforcing H&S, compliance and operational standards
* Recruiting, coaching and retaining high-performing staff
* Reporting on performance and executing regional strategy locally
What We’re Looking For
* Proven Depot Manager / Branch Manager experience
* Background in materials handling, forklifts, plant, powered access or hire
* Strong commercial acumen ,understands numbers, margins and recovery
* Confident leader who holds people to account
* Comfortable making tough decisions and managing pressure
* Customer-focused but commercially firm
The Package
* Competitive basic salary (dependent on experience)
* Bonus linked to depot performance
* Company car
* Pension, holiday and full benefits package
* Clear progression within a growing, ambitious business