Delivery Manager

Booker; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Booker is seeking a delivery operations manager to lead a team across a branch, ensuring efficient, safe trading and top customer service. The role focuses on controlling delivery costs, improving efficiency, and delivering excellent customer experiences.

Experience in warehousing/transport and a hands-on management style will help you drive performance citywide. You will lead, train and motivate staff, engage with customers, and collaborate with regional teams to enhance ways of working and

Responsibilities

• Lead your team to ensure the branch trades efficiently, safely, and within legal constraints while delivering high customer service.
• Manage delivery costs and customer charges to meet targets.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and set challenging targets to minimise payroll cost.
• Understand the local market to provide the best service and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Develop and motivate staff, build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders.
• Work with regional teams to identify improvements and develop new ways of working.

Job description

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.

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.

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

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, 8 distribution centres, 5 Best Food Logistics sites, as well as 6 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.

We’re proud that Booker is a Disability Confident Committed Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support you can expect, please contact [e-mail]

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*

For more information about us please visit www.bookergro upjobs.co.uk