Warehouse Manager
Competitive Salary
BBF Limited
Blackburn, Lancashire
The Warehouse Manager will provide leadership and management support to the warehouse teams based at both the Blackburn and Shadsworth Bakery sites.
They will work to ensure the successful delivery of professional inbound, stock holding and outbound processes to appropriately service the bakeries whilst maintaining a safe working environment, compliance with required standards and providing the necessary support to direct reports and cross-functional colleagues.
Who are we looking for?
Previous experience managing warehouse operations within a similar-sized food manufacturing environment.
Management experience in Health and Safety, food safety and GMP compliance.
Demonstratable understanding of stock management and WMS systems (preferred).
Strong people management and influencing skills, with a keen eye for detail.
Results-driven with a continuous improvement mindset and a flexible, can-do attitude.
Able to work autonomously, prioritise effectively, and stay objective under pressure.
Strong team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
IT literate with working knowledge of ERP systems and Excel.
Desirable: Valid FLT licence.
The role of Warehouse Manager at BBF
Maintain and continuously improve all aspects of health and safety, food safety and GMP.
Oversee the maintenance of all racking, FLT's, and storage areas, ensuring all safety checks (weekly, monthly, yearly) are completed in line with HSE guidelines.
Lead continuous Improvement initiatives across the yard, storage, systems and vehicle management processes.
Drive waste and cost reduction through minimising damages and operational errors.
Work closely with operations and site teams to ensure smooth movement of goods in and out of the factory.
Attend daily and weekly site review meetings, ensuring actions are clearly communicated and delivered to conclusion.
Resolve service-impacting issues effectively, both internally and externally.
Liaise with Supply Chain and 3PLs on transport requirements to ensure alignment with production plans.
Ensure all vehicle temperature checks and inspection sheets are completed to the required standards.
Accurately process all incoming and outgoing paperwork into the ERP system, collaborating with Finance to resolve any invoice discrepancies.
Monitor and maintain stock storage locations within the ERP system, ensuring correct batch/date is shown and transfers to external storage are timely and accurate.
Working collaboratively Identify and resolve stock date and batch rotation issues.
Provide training, mentoring, and support to build a high-performing, multi-skilled warehouse team.
Set up and maintain warehouse KPIs, ensuring accurate reporting and performance tracking.
Manage the CHEP pallet system, including stock counts and reporting requirements.
Lead and complete all scheduled and ad hoc stock counts and reporting results and investigating / resolving variances..
Who are BBF Limited?
BBF Limited are one of the UK's leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.
Our team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cakes, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more!
We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.
With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join BBF Limited! We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it!
On top of making some delicious cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too! Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you'll be coming to work smiling.
What benefits do we offer?
Financial
Competitive Salary
4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit
Access to 'Company Shop' - a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products
Health & Wellbeing
25 days holiday per annum (plus statutory holidays)
24/7 Access to a GP
24/7 Bereavement Support
Personal & Professional Development
Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team
Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses
A few other bits
Quarterly and Yearly BBF Star Awards - recognising those who have gone above and beyond!
Free on-site parking
Free refreshments
Recruitment Agencies
All our recruitment is managed centrally via the internal recruitment team. We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren't adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly and therefore any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won't be liable for a fee. Please don't speculatively contact us in relation to this vacancy or any oth