Warehouse General Manager - Immediate Start

As General Manager, you will lead the strategic development, success, and growth of your site, balancing operational excellence and customer focus, with effective commercial decision-making.

Key Responsibilities of the General Manager:

• Build a strategic plan for the year ahead, moving away from day to day by supporting the site leadership teams to achieve their objectives.
• Use data to identify trends and actions to sustain, develop or improve the unit/site performance.
• Leverage technology, systems, and people to drive improvements.
• Responsibility for managing and exceeding site financial and operational targets.
• Understand the detail and the various levers under operational influence and how they impact targets.
• Support and develop senior-level client relationships where needed.
• Involvement in the sales process to grow the business.
• Be a confident and passionate advocate of our business.
• Ensure we operate a ‘safety first’ mentality in our approach.
• Manage operational teams ensuring they achieve their objectives through support, development, and feedback.
• Lead on promoting the values and act as a leadership role model.
• Lead the site Colleague Voice Forums and other Site communication and engagement activity to drive engagement, performance and continuous improvement.
• Continually challenge the site structure, to ensure it is fit for purpose, with correct management ratios deployed, and with accountabilities and targets in place.
• Create and manage development plans to ensure we retain and grow talent within the business.

Required Skillset:

• Understands and can demonstrate the role of technology in operational efficiency. A high level of technical proficiency.
• People and team focused.
• Experience of delivering productivity gains.
• Develops others through coaching interventions.
• Excellent analytical, organisational, and planning skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Significant logistics and warehouse experience is critical.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing 3PL business located in their Germany Site. To be considered for this opportunity, apply below or for more information contact Tim Burrows on 07377694325 or email tim.burrows@irlamassociates.co.uk.