Job Title: Warehousing and Despatch Manager
Location: Oldham
Salary: GBP55k per year + Pension + Bonus + PMI
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent.
Role Purpose
To lead and motivate (through two Team Leaders), a team of 20+ shift-based drivers, ensuring delivery targets and objectives (KPIs) and strategy, through a culture of continuous improvement. Ensuring that all activities are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards of quality, customer service, and stock control. A hands‑on leader, directly contributing to the overall achievement of the wider business objectives by solving problems, exploiting opportunities, developing standards/systems, and managing change.
Key Requirements
* Proven warehouse management experience (manufacturing / logistics preferred)
* Relevant quality management and systems experience
* Previous experience working within a busy operational management team, leading people.
Leadership Attributes
* Clarity of Vision: Understand the totality of the situation and see clearly what needs to be done and how to achieve it.
* Coaching and Mentoring Skills: Coach and support employees to ensure skills and practices are embedded.
* Analytical Ability: Translate business objectives into realistic plans.
* External Orientation: Has a clear understanding of the external environment, and the changing needs of the internal / external customer.
* Entrepreneurial Drive: Is constantly energised to improve business results in both the short and long term. Takes initiatives and has the tenacity and resilience to ensure achievement.
* Leadership of Teams: Inspires teams to support business direction, develops team capability.
* Leadership of Individuals: Inspires subordinates, sets high standards for performance. Holds subordinates accountable for achieving these standards. Build skills and capabilities of subordinates.
* Influencing Skills: Successfully influences without hierarchical power and maintains positive relationships with colleagues.
* Integrity: Stands up for convictions / values and takes difficult decisions. Admits mistakes freely and openly.
* Commitment to team: Works cooperatively as a member of a team and is committed to the overall team objectives rather than own interests.
* Learn: Actively learns from own failures / successes and those of others.
* Manages and Respects Differences: Able to manage diversity in such a way that enables / promotes creativity and innovation.
Principal Accountabilities
* Ensure all Health and Safety and Quality standards are in place, understood, and adhered to.
* In conjunction with the HR Director ensure operations staff are trained and competent to undertake relevant duties: including flexibility/mobility of labour throughout the operation.
* Plan and monitor workloads, shift pattern, overtime, and holiday cover to ensure continuity of operations.
* Work closely with the site Production Manager to ensure all manufacturing lines are suitably serviced.
* Optimise use of available space through dynamic allocation of zones for internal board stock, finished goods stock bays, loading bays, stand trailers, outside warehousing, and shunting operations.
* Ensure stock accuracy is maintained through product scanning, labelling, cyclical stock checks.
* Ensure FIFO stock rotation principles are in place and adhered to including the timely management of quarantined stock, obsolete stock, and part pallets.
* Safeguard customer service through on‑time loading and unloading of outbound and inbound deliveries.
* Provide reports / analysis and opportunities for improvement recommendations for relevant KPIs.
* To undertake other roles and tasks as requested that are commensurate with the level and function of this post.
* Play an active part in the wider Operations Management Team to deliver added value to the business.
Key Performance Indicators
* Accident / inci
Seniority Level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
* Full-time
Job Function
* Management and Manufacturing
* Industries: Advertising Services
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