Distribution Centre Manager

JR United Kingdom; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading pub company as a Distribution Centre Manager. This role involves overseeing the depot's performance, driving safety and operational excellence, and engaging with teams to meet delivery targets and ensure compliance. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership, operational experience, and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in logistics, supply chain, or operations management.
• Proven leadership skills to motivate diverse teams.
• Solid understanding of budgeting and financial management.

Responsibilities

• Manage the overall performance and safety of the depot.
• Implement cultural change emphasizing operational improvement.
• Ensure compliance and manage the site P&L and budget.

Skills

Operational excellence

Lean methodologies

Project management

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

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sheffield, south yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Posted:

04.06.2025

Expiry Date:

19.07.2025

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Job Description:

On Site (5 days a week)

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, KPIs, and maintaining compliance with company policies and regulations. You'll drive continuous improvement initiatives and optimise 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 history rooted in brewing and pub culture for over 220 years, our team of 39,000 are the guardians of a distinctly British pub experience.

Your role as Distribution Centre Manager:

• Responsible for adopting a cultural transformation towards operational excellence, focusing on safety, service, cost, and environmental sustainability, using continuous improvement/lean methodologies.
• Implement cultural change emphasizing safety and operational improvement at all levels.
• Ensure on-time and in-full delivery targets are met.
• Enhance 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 O licence adherence.

What you'll bring:

• Experience in operational excellence and lean methodologies.
• Project management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Management experience within logistics, supply chain, or operations.
• Proven leadership skills to motivate and develop diverse teams, focused on results and engagement.
• Solid understanding of budgeting, financial management, and cost control.