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Job Title: Warehouse Manager (Nights)
Location: Unit 7a, Odhams Trading Estate, St Albans Road, Watford, WD24 7RY
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Working Hours: 40 hours per week, 18.00 to 03.00 Sunday to Thursday with a 60 minutes lunch break.
Main Purpose Of Role
To manage the night shift team ensuring that goods are moved in and out of our warehouse in accordance with operational systems and processes meeting customer needs. The nightshift team are managed in accordance with current Health and Safety, Food Safety Standards and protocols.
About Us
Vegetarian Express specialise in delivering plant-based ingredients, ideas and inspiration to chefs across the UK for eating out of home. With the astronomical rise in popularity of plant-based, vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, Vegetarian Express are uniquely placed in Foodservice to meet with this demand, and as such are rapidly growing and expanding.
Nationally we supply more than 4,000 skilled chefs from customers such as Compass, Baxterstorey and CH&Co, as well as a ton of Independent operators and events such as The Chelsea Flower Show, Wimbledon and Wembley Stadium to name just a few.
Vegetarian Express work with customers to create plant-based menus that are enticing, better for consumers health, the planet and commercially for businesses.
Vegetarian Express are proud to be a certified B Corporation. This means they are part of a growing number of progressive businesses around the world that truly believe in the power of business to do good things and, more importantly, are doing something about it.
Key Responsibilities
* To ensure that the team picking and packing accuracy is maintained ensuring that all customer expectations are met and any necessary paperwork is maintained and accurate.
* To direct the team to follow the relevant pick sheets through WMS handheld technology in order to complete pick accuracy.
* To ensure the team follow all correct procedures, and ensuring that safe working practices, timekeeping and food safety standards are followed.
* To ensure and maintain the team correctly pick Chilled frozen and ambient products for customer orders, they are correctly packed and dispatched to the customers on the correct date, and that the relevant paperwork is completed.
* To ensure that all areas of the warehouse, fridges and freezers clean and tidy and meet the necessary food safety standards, highlighting any stock related issues that may affect product integrity.
* System generated EPOD and routing information is sent to GEOPAL once the pick and invoicing has been completed.
* To communicate with the Depot General Manager and stock controllers if there are issues and problems as soon as possible, to help make the resolution of issues easier.
* Liaise with our day shift team ensuring the foundations are set for the night shift team to complete the pick fully.
* To carry out stock counts for the stock controllers and other counts as required on an ad-hoc basis.
* To suggest improvements to the Company's purchasing, logistics and warehousing systems as appropriate and to implement agreed changes in systems.
* Health and safety responsibility for the warehouse during the night shift maintaining a safe working environment for all colleagues.
* Working directly with the night shunter to enable safe loading of vehicles and maintain temperature controls throughout the shift.
* Work with the Depot General Manager to ensure the team have the correct training and development in place and up to date qualifications.
* Be at hand for the team both answering enquires and providing support.
* Motivate and educate the team to achieve KPI's
* Line Management responsibilities for the team including conducting performance reviews, performance management, recruitment, managing holidays & absences, provide regular coaching, feedback, training, 1 to 1 s.
* To undertake any other duties as appropriate within competence as required by line manager setting a one team approach and collaborative working relationship
Salary & Benefits
* Competitive basic salary dependant on experience (incl. night shift weighting)
* 25 days holiday plus public holidays
* Option to purchase additional annual leave (up to 3 days)
* Cash health plan (money back for dentist, opticians, physio etc.)
* Life assurance (4 x salary)
* Staff discount on ALL products
* Pension (3% employer and 5% employee)
Candidate Criteria
Qualifications;
* UK driving licence
* Reach Truck Licence
Experience Required;
* Previous good line management experience in a standalone management role
* Minimum of three years' experience in a warehouse operations management role
* Previous experience of following performance management and absence management procedures.
Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Logistics Manager, Warehouse Operations Manager, Distribution Centre Manager, will all be considered.
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Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Management and Manufacturing
* Industries
Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
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