Delivery Manager

Booker Group; Hempstalls; Teletrabalho; GBP 32 000 - 45 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Booker colleague card 10% off and 3x 2

Tesco colleague discount 10%–15% after

Tesco Mobile 10% off

Car, pet and home insurance discounts

Eye tests and glasses discounts

Health checks at Tesco Pharmacy

RAC breakdown discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Save As You Earn share scheme after 3m

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Resumo da oferta

Booker Group in East Stoke-On-Trent is seeking a Delivery Operations Manager to lead a team, ensuring efficient, safe delivery operations with high customer service standards.

Based in a delivery location, you will use your warehouse/transport experience to manage costs, drive efficiency, and develop your team while delivering great service to customers.

Qualificações

• Experience of managing a warehouse operation.
• Engaging with customers and building strong relationships.
• Developing new ideas and challenging a team to improve delivery service.

Responsabilidades

• Leading your team to ensure branch trading is efficient, safe and customer-focused.
• Managing delivery costs and customer charges to meet targets.
• Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce payroll costs.
• Understanding local market to offer the best service and high customer satisfaction.
• Managing your team to meet customer service requirements and engaging with customers for feedback.

Conhecimentos

Team leadership

Customer service

Planning & organizing

Formação académica

Management CPC qualification

Descrição da oferta de emprego

• Location Speedwell Road Parkhouse Industrial Estate East Stoke-On-Trent
• Contract TypePermanent
• Hours38
• Closing Date 17 November, 2026
• Business Unit Booker Group

Speedwell Road Parkhouse Industrial Estate East Stoke-On-TrentST5 7QJ

About the role

Do you want to work for a company that truly delivers? Planning your route to success?

We are looking for someone who can lead a team to ensure that the delivery department is trading efficiently, safely, within legal constraints and offers the highest customer service standards. An experienced manager who is dedicated to keeping customers happy, takes pride in their work and has a proven track record of motivating, developing and challenging their team to improve the delivery operation. Can you deliver this?

Based in one of our delivery locations, experience, knowledge and skills in warehouse / transport are essential.

Main Responsibilities

Leading your team to ensure your branch is trading efficiently, safely, within legal constraints and offering the highest customer service standards.

Managing delivery costs and customer charges to achieve agreed targets.

Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and setting challenging targets to minimise payroll cost

Understanding the local market in order to offer the best service in your area ensuring fantastic customer service and satisfaction.

Managing your team effectively to cover all customer service requirements and engaging with customers, using feedback to improve service and satisfaction

Working with the regional team, assisting the business to identify opportunitieswhile developing or improving ways of working.

You will need

Previous experience and knowledge of deliveries/ transport are essential in addition to:

Experience of managing a warehouse operation

Engaging with customers and building and maintaining strong relationships

Developing new ideas and challenging a team to improve the delivery service

Identifying talent and encouraging development in a team

Motivating a team to build a strong customer service culture

Communicating openly and being able to influence key stakeholders

Planning and organising effectively

A “Hands on approach” is beneficial

Management CPC qualification is beneficial

What's in it for you

At Booker, along with being a great place to work and giving you an opportunity to get on in your career, we also offer the following fantastic package of benefits:

• A Booker colleague card with 10% off purchases at Booker and double discount events up to three times a year.
• After 3 months service, a Tesco colleague discount card with 10% increasing to 15% off most purchases at Tesco for a 4 day period after every four-weekly pay day, ie. thirteen times a year. In addition to 10% off at Tesco Cafe and 20% off all F&F purchases.
• 10% off pay monthly & SIM only deals with Tesco Mobile for yourself, along with further great deals through-out the year.
• Up to 30% off car, pet and home insurance at Tesco bank. Terms and conditions apply.
• Free eye test when you spend £50 or more. You can also save 30% when you spend £50 or more on glasses, prescription sunglasses and contact lenses.
• 50% off health checks at Tesco Pharmacy.
• Exclusive access to discounted RAC breakdown cover rates
• An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases including a cycle to work scheme.
• After 3 months service, you can join our annual Save As You Earn share scheme which allows you to buy Tesco shares in the future at a discount.
• Retirement savings plan (pension) - save up to 5% and Booker will match your contribution.
• Life Assurance - You are covered for death in service life cover of up to three times annual pay
• Health and Wellbeing support and resources including our 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme and Virtual GP for you and your family.

Booker is the UK's leading food & drink wholesaler. We are privileged to serve independent retailers, caterers and small businesses, from locations across the country. We operate over 190 cash and carry branches, eight distribution centres, five Best Food Logistics sites, as well as six support centre locations across the UK.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Booker means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Booker and Best, we always welcome conversations about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we may be able to support you.

Please note We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, and driving roles. On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview. *Booker Group is part of Tesco plc, however, is operated separately from the core Tesco business and as such the benefits offered will be different from those offered at Tesco*

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