Area Cluster Manager

GXO; Orpington; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A logistics company is seeking an Area Cluster Manager for the Southeast of England. This full-time position involves leading management teams across multiple sites, monitoring operations to meet health and safety standards, and managing KPIs. Offering a salary of up to £50,000 plus benefits including a company car. Candidates should foster effective teamwork and possess leadership skills.

Benefits

Salary of up to £50,000

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company car or car allowance

Private medical & dental insurance

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Support a good team working spirit and ensure effective communication within leadership teams.
• Ability to work independently under pressure in a changing environment.
• Experience in managing stores and distribution or similar background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and guidance to management teams to meet objectives.
• Monitor operational activities to achieve customer contractual obligations.
• Report weekly production figures for internal and customer KPI's.
• Liaise with HR on operational concerns and employee relations.

Skills

Leadership and guidance

Team working spirit

Initiative under pressure

Job description

Are you ready for that next step in your career and ready for a regional role? Perhaps you are already in a regional role looking for that next challenge? Whatever the reason, this could be the role for you!

Here at GXO, we are currently looking for a Area Cluster Manager to join our team in the Southeast of England supporting our new business win, SGN. You can be based at any of the sites within your cluster— Orpington (St Mary Cray), South Godstone, Ashford, Horsham with regular travel expected between locations. As the Cluster Manager you will be responsible for the controlling and managing of multiple controlled and uncontrolled sites within your region while ensuring that the operation is managed effectively and efficiently, leading and monitoring productivity to ensure KPI’s are completed to meet Health and Safety Standards.

This is a full time, permanent position, predominately working Monday to Friday, 09:00 till 17:00. With this being a regional role, we do ask for some flexibility if or when required.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £50,000.00, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company car or car allowance of £450.00 per calendar month, a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Providing leadership and guidance for the management teams to enable them to meet objectives, encouraging open communication between them to address operational issues effectively and in a timely manner
• To monitor the depot’s operational activities ensuring that contractual obligations for customers are achieved, generating solutions for continuous improvement in service
• Collate and report the weekly production figures to support the creation of the weekly internal and customer KPI’s pack
• Liaise with HR in relation to operational/mamangement concerns and any other employee relations issues

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Support and encourage a good team working spirit and ensure that the leadership teams work effectively and communicate frequently to achieve the business objectives
• Ability to work on own initiative, while working under pressure in a continually changing and demanding environment
• Experience of managing a stores and distribution environment or similar background preferable, but not essential

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