Warehouse Shift Manager (Nights)

GXO Logistics; Reading; On-site; GBP 39,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Warehouse Shift Manager to lead a dedicated team in a challenging freezer warehouse environment. This full-time role involves managing operations during the night shift, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and driving performance through effective leadership. With a competitive salary and a range of benefits including generous annual leave and high street discounts, this position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a leading logistics company. If you thrive in fast-paced settings and enjoy coaching teams to success, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

33 days annual leave

High street discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Workplace pension

Qualifications

• Experience managing a large team in a fast-paced warehouse environment.
• Strong understanding of health and safety management and food safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage work activities within a large team, ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Report performance KPIs and financial information, identifying trends.

Skills

Team Leadership

Health & Safety Management

Quality Management

Food Safety Standards

P&L Management

Job description

We are looking for a Warehouse Shift Manager to join us at our site in Reading on a full-time, permanent basis, supporting our customer, Waitrose. Working the permanent night shift, 10pm to 6am, any 5 days out of 7, you’ll provide leadership and guidance for your team, ensuring that they have all the tools they need to do their job and that the operation runs smoothly. This is a freezer warehouse, so you’ll need to be used to a chilly environment!

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £38,445.00 inclusive of night shift allowance, per annum, in addition we also offer 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays). You’ll have access to a variety of high street discounts, as well as a cycle to work scheme, a workplace pension and many other perks.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Manage and coordinate the work activities within your large team of warehouse colleagues, whilst ensuring a customer focused approach with a responsive nature to customer requirements
• Co-ordinate customer requirements, ensuring procedural conformance, customer satisfaction and that contractual obligations are met
• Carry out the timely reporting of performance KPI and financial information, identifying trends and acting on areas for development.
• Ensuring the operation meets or exceeds budgeted targets set up for export operation with the use of key operational cost drivers and P&L management
• Be responsible for H&S Management, Quality Management and Food Safety standards.

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Previous experience supervising or managing a large team in a complex, fast-paced warehouse environment with experience of H&S Management, Quality Management and Food Safety standards
• An understanding of key operational cost drivers and P&L or cost centre management
• Excellent team leadership skills with the ability to develop and coach teams to ensure excellent performance
• The ability to perform under pressure, efficiently managing conflicting priorities whilst keeping a level head

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.

About the company

GXO Logistics is an American global contract logistics company that manages outsourced supply chains and warehousing.