Distribution Centre Manager

JR United Kingdom; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the hospitality sector as a Distribution Centre Manager. You'll oversee daily operations, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and ensure compliance with regulations. This role requires strong leadership and management skills, focusing on operational excellence within logistics and supply chain environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational excellence and lean methodologies.
• Strong management experience within logistics, supply chain, or operations.
• Proven leadership skills with ability to motivate diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing daily operations and managing teams to ensure safety and performance.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives and optimizing processes.
• Managing site P&L and budget, ensuring compliance with regulations.

Skills

Operational excellence

Lean methodologies

Project management

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Management experience

Leadership

Financial management

Cost control

Job description

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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 are proud of our heritage. Today, our 39,000-strong team continues to uphold what is uniquely British—the pub experience.

Your role as Distribution Centre Manager:

• Responsible for fostering a culture of operational excellence using continuous improvement and lean methodologies, focusing on eliminating waste while ensuring safety, service, cost-efficiency, and environmental sustainability.
• Implement cultural transformation initiatives emphasizing safety and continuous improvement at all operational levels.
• Ensure targets for on-time and in-full deliveries are consistently met.
• Lead efforts 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-licence regulations.

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 diverse teams, focusing on results and engagement.
• Solid understanding of budgeting, financial management, and cost control.