What you’ll be doing
You’ll lead performance across multiple depots, ensuring safe, compliant, and cost‑efficient operations that consistently deliver against service, people, and financial targets.
Key responsibilities include:
* You’ll take full ownership of operational performance across your depots, ensuring targets for service, cost, safety, and quality are met, and you’ll coach and develop teams to build strong leadership capability and succession readiness.
* You’ll champion the highest standards of health, safety, and compliance, embed a proactive safety culture, manage risk, review incidents, and implement corrective action.
* You’ll oversee labour planning and resource deployment, ensuring cost‑effective staffing models and compliance with labour standards.
* You’ll drive consistency by identifying and delivering improvements in productivity, efficiency, and ways of working, maintaining high standards across fleet utilisation, facilities, and asset management.
* You’ll lead the successful implementation of operational change, including capital projects and new equipment, ensuring safe, on‑time delivery and full integration into daily operations.
* You’ll keep senior leadership informed of performance trends, risks, and opportunities through clear reporting and insight.
* As a senior leader, you’ll champion inclusion and diversity, acting as a role model and ensuring commitments translate into meaningful action across your teams.
Location
This role can be based at our Manton 110 or Tamworth site.
What we’re looking for
At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work.
* Proven experience as a Depot Manager or in a similar operational leadership role
* Strong understanding of transport and warehousing best practices
* Qualified Transport Manager CPC (Certificate of Professional Competence) holder
* Demonstrated ability to lead through others across multiple sites
* Experience managing labour, budgets, and overall operational performance
* Excellent operational, commercial, and safety awareness
* Confident decision‑maker with the resilience to manage competing priorities
* Clear capability and aspiration to progress into an Area Depot Manager role
What you’ll get in return
* Competitive salary and job‑related benefits
* Holidays
* Competitive matched pension contribution
* Life insurance up to 4x salary
* Company share save scheme
* Greencore Qualifications
* Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
* Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
* Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
* Bonus
* Car allowance
* Individual PMI
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on‑the‑job training and development opportunities to further your career.
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