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Distribution Centre Manager

JR United Kingdom

Plymouth

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GBP 40,000 - 60,000

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Job summary

As a Distribution Centre Manager at a leading company, you will ensure the depot's operational excellence by overseeing daily performance and compliance while implementing improvements to enhance safety and efficiency. You will leverage your management skills to lead teams, drive engagement, and exceed delivery targets.

Qualifications

  • Experience in operational excellence and lean methodologies.
  • Strong management experience within logistics, supply chain, or operations.
  • Solid understanding of budgeting and financial management.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee daily operations, ensuring customer satisfaction and safety.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives and optimize processes.
  • Manage the site P&L and budget while ensuring statutory compliance.

Skills

Communication
Interpersonal skills
Project management
Leadership

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Location - | St Edmunds DC| Fortress Way |Suffolk Park, Bury St Edmunds | Suffolk |IP32 7FQ |

As a Distribution Centre Manager, you'll be responsible for the overall management, performance, and safety of the depot. This includes overseeing daily operations, managing teams, ensuring customer satisfaction, meeting KPIs, and maintaining compliance with company policies and regulations. You'll drive continuous improvement initiatives and optimize processes to achieve operational excellence.

Join us at Greene King, the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. With a rich 220-year brewing and pub history, we create a unique business. Our team of 39,000 are the guardians of what’s wholly British—the pub experience.

Your role as Distribution Centre Manager

  • Responsible for adopting a cultural transformation towards operational excellence using continuous improvement/lean methodologies, focusing on eliminating waste while ensuring Safety, Service, Cost, and Environmental standards are met.
  • Implement change to foster a culture of safety and continuous improvement at all levels of the operation.
  • Ensure on-time and in-full delivery targets are exceeded.
  • Lead initiatives to improve employee engagement across the site.
  • Manage the site P&L and budget, ensuring risks are mitigated and opportunities seized.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to maintain confidence in service delivery.
  • Ensure statutory compliance and governance, including adherence to O license requirements.

What you'll bring

  • Experience in operational excellence and lean methodologies.
  • Project management skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong management experience within logistics, supply chain, or operations.
  • Proven leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop a diverse team, focusing on results and engagement.
  • Solid understanding of budgeting, financial management, and cost control.
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