Salary £35,294 - £38,207 (dependent on experience), 10% bonus potential, 25 days annual leave and generous pension scheme
Full time, Permanent
As a Work Area Manager, you will work in a busy mail centre, responsible for managing operations in a specified area.
Monday to Friday, Hours between 14:24 - 22:36, Due to operational needs flexibility is required.
Leading a dedicated team of full and part time employees, you’ll hold regular one to one and team meetings and review the area’s performance and plans on a daily basis. Championing health and safety initiatives, increasing efficiency, and identifying areas of improvements are essential to your role.
Supporting the Shift Manager, you will provide a high quality of service to our customers and ensure all operational targets are met. With line management responsibility you’ll manage your team’s sick absence, attendance, training and development and you’ll get involved in our programme of continuous improvement.
As this is an extremely interesting and varied role, we are looking for candidates who are flexible, can work under pressure and possess excellent leadership and communication skills. As a leader within the business, you must demonstrate evidence on your CV of the following:
Leadership Focus: Ensures the basics are right, takes a 'one company' approach, creates positive energy, implements strategy, takes account of relevant issues. People Focus: Understands the value of diversity & inclusion, uses delegation, coaching, empowerment and feedback, identifies and developing talent, collaborates, takes time to know and understand others needs and perspectives, ensures a supportive environment where achievements are recognised.
Resilience Focus: Is approachable, provides re-assurance to others, agile in adapting to new challenges, communicates regularly and informally, deals with ambiguity, is positive and realistic even under pressure.
Builds confident teams using a coaching style and ensures others are held accountable. Improvement Focus: Implements transformation, reduces costs and ensures value for money, embraces innovative work practices, makes rational and informed decisions, identifies improvements to ways of working across areas of the business, implements new processes and services to meet changing customer needs.
If you are interested in applying, please complete your application online and submit your current CV.
At Royal Mail we connect companies, customers and communities across the country, delivering a ‘one-price-goes-anywhere’, universal postal service to more than 30 million addresses. As one of the UK’s leading companies, we are focused on being recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe.
Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. To help you prepare, we’ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.
Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.
For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: Early January