Ancillary Services Manager Location: Heathrow Consolidation Centre (HCC) Reports to: Head of Customer Experience About the role We are looking for an experienced and proactive Ancillary Services Manager to lead and develop operational teams across multiple departments at Heathrow Consolidation Centre. This is a varied leadership role with responsibility for Multiuser Warehouse operations, Additional Services, Customer Service, short-term strategic delivery, and quality assurance. You will play a key role in ensuring safe, efficient, compliant day-to-day operations while also driving process improvement, financial control, service excellence, and revenue growth. The successful candidate will be a strong people leader with excellent operational knowledge, commercial awareness, and the ability to turn business priorities into clear, actionable plans. Key responsibilities Multiuser Warehouse (MUW) Manage day-to-day Multiuser Warehouse operations, ensuring safe, efficient and compliant performance. Act as the subject matter expert for OMNI and SOM systems, troubleshooting issues and resolving them wherever possible before escalating to IT. Maintain system data integrity and ensure adherence to operational workflows. Create, update and maintain training documentation, SOPs and process guides. Deliver training where required, while coaching and mentoring colleagues to improve capability and performance. Regularly review warehouse processes, identify inefficiencies and implement improvements. Work closely with the Heathrow Retail Account Manager, Senior Account Manager and Reach teams to support business-as-usual operations. Monitor KPIs and operational performance, addressing inaccuracies and underperformance proactively. Act as the escalation point for operational issues, investigations and stock discrepancies, ensuring timely root cause analysis and resolution. Ensure compliance with health and safety, company policies and audit requirements. Maintain accurate reporting and operational documentation for review by the Head of Customer Experience. Additional Services Lead and manage day-to-day BAU operations within the Additional Services department, including parcel deliveries and oversight of monthly financial invoicing processes. Ensure services are delivered efficiently, accurately and in line with company KPIs and contractual agreements. Provide hands-on operational support where needed to maintain continuity and performance. Oversee financial reporting for Additional Services, ensuring accuracy, transparency and timely submission. Create and maintain a monthly review dashboard, providing analysis of revenue performance, trends and growth opportunities. Monitor revenue generation against targets, identifying risks and underperformance. Identify and develop new Additional Service opportunities across the business and Heathrow Airport to drive revenue growth. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to introduce and implement new service offerings. Ensure compliance with operational, financial and governance standards. Maintain accurate documentation, reporting and audit trails for all Additional Service activity. Act as escalation point for operational issues, including delivery investigations where applicable. Customer Service Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the Customer Service department. Manage holiday approvals and coordinate sickness and holiday cover. Create, maintain and adjust staff rotas to ensure appropriate cover at all times. Monitor attendance and address absence issues as required. Oversee accurate logging and maintenance of call records in AMIS. Manage shared email inboxes, ensuring prompt and professional responses to external correspondence, including booking requests. Maintain high office standards, ensuring organisation, professionalism and compliance. Develop and implement customer service procedures and best practices. Identify and drive process improvements across the department. Ensure adherence to company policies and the BSL Labour Agreement. Monitor team performance, provide coaching and drive continuous improvement. Produce accurate operational reports for review by the Head of Customer Experience. Short-Term Strategy Lead the development and execution of short-term strategic plans aligned with business priorities and operational objectives. Translate strategic goals into clear, actionable plans with defined timelines, deliverables and ownership. Monitor performance against targets, identifying risks and implementing corrective actions where needed. Analyse operational and financial data to support informed decision-making. Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure aligned delivery of key initiatives. Provide regular progress updates and performance reporting to the Head of Customer Experience and Head of Operations. Conduct post-implementation reviews to assess impact and capture lessons learned. Remain flexible and adapt plans in response to evolving business needs and external factors. Quality Assurance Provide guidance to management on process development, process support and conformance. Oversee Root Cause Failure (RCF) initiatives to address process anomalies, identify non-compliance and support corrective action. Oversee implementation of Irreversible Corrective Actions (ICA) to reduce non-conformities, minimise operational disruption and improve resilience. Work in partnership with relevant Heads of Department to support strong internal and external audit results. Business as Usual Actively participate in Monthly Management Reviews (MMRs) and customer meetings, including monthly and quarterly reviews with HAL where required. Coach, mentor and support all levels of management in achieving operational excellence in innovation development, innovation execution, project management and process control. Act as the gatekeeper for knowledge-based solutions stored in the AMIS system. Support European deployment opportunities as they arise. Key relationships External Retail Business Partners Retail Inbound Suppliers Internal HCC Head of Operations Head of Customer Experience Operational Managers Additional Services Team CTIMs HR Finance IT Line Level Leaders What were looking for Strong operational leadership experience across warehousing, customer service or multi-function service environments Excellent people management, coaching and mentoring skills Strong commercial awareness and confidence working with financial and performance data Experience in process improvement, compliance, audits and operational reporting Ability to manage multiple priorities and departments effectively Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills Experience using operational systems such as OMNI, SOM and AMIS would be highly advantageous Salary to be discussed Why join us? This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a broad and impactful role within a fast-paced operational environment at Heathrow. You will have the chance to lead teams, improve performance, support strategic initiatives and help shape future service growth.