Central Operations Manager

CMA CGM; Ashby-de-la-Zouch; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive annual leave

Pension and life assurance

Employee benefits platform with retail

Job summary

CEVA Logistics is seeking a Central Operations Manager based at the Head Office in Ashby-de-la-Zouch with nationwide travel. You will lead operational performance across the national portfolio, drive improvements, and ensure contraction profitability while promoting best practices and system utilization.

You will bring extensive experience in logistics operations, transformation programs, and a track record of delivering measurable improvements in service, cost, and safety across complex

Qualifications

• Experience in multi-site logistics operations and supply chains.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills with data-driven approach.
• Health and safety leadership across complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational performance to meet service, financial, KPI, and customer objectives.
• Identify challenges and risks; drive recovery plans and improvements for profitability.
• Establish and improve national operating standards and best practices.
• Mitigate risks related to service, cost, health and safety, quality, and compliance.
• Lead transformation initiatives and adopt new systems and ways of working.

Job description

Central Operations Manager

Ashby de la Zouch, GBR CEVALogistics Contract Logistics Permanent contract Full Time

CEVA Logistics provides global supply chain solutions to connect people, products, and providers all around the world. Present in 170+ countries and with more than 110,000 employees spread over 1,500 sites, we are proud to be a Top 5 global 3PL.

We believe that our employees are the key to our success. We want to engage and empower our diverse, global team to co-create value with our customers through our solutions in contract logistics and air, ocean, ground, and finished vehicle transport. That is why CEVA Logistics offers a dynamic and exceptional work environment that fosters personal growth, innovation, and continuous improvement.

At CEVA Logistics, weRise inMotion. Your career is always on the move,growingas fast and as far as your ambition takes you. Join a global team ofnearly 200nationalities, shaping the future of global trade, moving essential goods, forging new paths, and pushing boundaries to serve an ever-changing world. The pace is fast, the challenges are real, but the rewards are greater: growth, purpose, and the chance to make a meaningful impact. This is more than a job.It’sa journey on which you rise.

YOUR ROLE

Are you an experienced operations leader with a strong background in logistics, transformation and continuous improvement? We’re looking for a Central Operations Manager to play a key role in driving operational excellence and sustainable business performance across our national portfolio.

This role is based at our Head Office in Ashby-de-la-Zouch with nation wide travel.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

• Lead operational performance, ensuring service, financial, KPI, customer and colleague objectives are achieved.
• Identify operational challenges and performance risks, leading recovery plans and improvement activity to strengthen service delivery and contract profitability.
• Establish and continuously improve national operating standards, promoting consistency, process compliance, effective system utilisation and best practice.
• Identify and mitigate risks relating to service, cost, health and safety, quality, compliance and customer commitments.
• Lead transformation and continuous improvement initiatives, challenging existing processes and supporting the adoption of new systems, tools and ways of working.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We’re looking for a commercially minded and influential operations leader with extensive experience in multi-site logistics operations, ideally within a third-party logistics environment. You’ll bring a strong understanding of warehouse operations, operational flow, end-to-end supply chains and a range of product lines, alongside proven experience in new business implementations, supporting challenging contracts and driving business process excellence and continuous improvement.

You’ll have a track record of developing and delivering operational strategies, leading transformational and cultural change, and managing health and safety across complex operational environments. With strong analytical and decision-making skills, you’ll be confident using performance data to identify opportunities, manage risk and deliver measurable improvements in service, cost and profitability.

WHAT DO WE HAVE TO OFFER?

With a genuine culture of reward and recognition, we want our employees to grow, develop and be part of our journey. We offer a benefits package that includes competitive annual leave entitlement with a fantastic holiday buy scheme, pension and life assurance along with access to an employee benefits platform that offers discounts on gym memberships and money off vouchers for a diverse range of retail, travel and hospitality brands. There’s no doubt that you will be compensated for your hard work and commitment.

ABOUT TOMORROW

We value your professional and personal growth. That’s why we share plenty of career opportunities for you to thrive within CEVA. Join CEVA for a challenging career.

CEVA Logistics UK&I is committed to attracting, acquiring and retaining the best possible candidates in an equal and inclusive way that is consistent with employment legislation and best practice. We aim to select the best available person for every vacancy irrespective of age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, political beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment and marital or civil partnership status.
Please note that candidates will be subject to the necessary right to work checks for the UK and Ireland.

Information at a Glance

Rise in motion with CMA CGM Group: where ambition meets opportunity.

Join a global team of nearly 200 nationalities, shaping the future of global trade, moving essential goods, forging newpaths, and pushing boundaries to serve an ever-changing world.

The pace is fast, the challenges are real, but the rewards are greater: growth, purpose, and thechance to make a meaningful impact. Thisis more than a job. It’s a journey on which you rise.