Work Area Manager

TN United Kingdom; Crawley; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK is seeking a Work Area Manager for the Gatwick Mail Centre. The role involves managing operations, leading a diverse team, and ensuring high-quality service delivery. Candidates should possess strong leadership and communication skills, with a focus on continuous improvement and customer satisfaction. The position offers a competitive salary starting from £37,155, a 10% bonus potential, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Generous pension scheme

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

24/7 wellbeing services

Discounts and offers on various services

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience managing a team.
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to challenges.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage operations in a specified area at Gatwick Mail Centre.
• Lead a team of 26 employees, conducting meetings and performance reviews.
• Champion health and safety initiatives and identify areas for improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Flexibility

Resilience

Customer Service

Job description

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Salary starting from £37,155, 10% bonus potential, 25 days annual leave, and a generous pension scheme

Full timePermanent

As a Work Area Manager, you will work in Gatwick Mail Centre and be responsible for managing operations in a specified area.

Shift Pattern

Tuesday to Saturday, 06:00 - 14:12

What does the role involve?
Leading a dedicated team of 26 full and part time employees, you will hold regular one to one and team meetings and review the area’s performance and plans on a daily basis. Championing health and safety initiatives, increasing efficiency, and identifying areas of improvements will be essential to your role.

Supporting the Shift Manager, you will provide a high quality of service to our customers and ensure all operational targets are met. You will have line management responsibility and the role will involve managing your team’s sick absence, attendance, training and development and will get involved in our programme of continuous improvement.

What skills and experience are we looking for?
As this is an extremely interesting and varied role, we are looking for candidates who are flexible, can work under pressure and possess excellent leadership and communication skills. As a leader within the business, you must demonstrate evidence on your CV of the following:

Leadership Focus:Ensures the basics are right, takes a 'one company' approach, creates positive energy, implements strategy, takes account of relevant issues. Uses platforms to recognise superstars, appeals to both the heart and the brain when communicating.
People Focus:Understands the value of diversity & inclusion, uses delegation, coaching, empowerment and feedback, identifies and developing talent, collaborates, takes time to know and understand others needs and perspectives, ensures a supportive environment where achievements are recognised.
Resilience Focus:Is approachable, provides re-assurance to others, agile in adapting to new challenges, communicates regularly and informally, deals with ambiguity, is positive and realistic even under pressure.
Achievement Focus:Ensures 'best day every day' by implementing standards of excellence, asks questions of others, shares learning, provides guidance. Builds confident teams using a coaching style and ensures others are held accountable. Uses resources to ensure delivery. Keeps promises. Is trusted by teams and colleagues.
Improvement Focus:Implements transformation, reduces costs and ensures value for money, embraces innovative work practices, makes rational and informed decisions, identifies improvements to ways of working across areas of the business, implements new processes and services to meet changing customer needs.
Customer centric Focus:Implements a customer-first culture, introduces ways to improve the customer experience, puts the customer at the heart of decision making, monitors goals for customer service, promotes investment and change which improves the end-to-end customer experience.

• Family friendly support- enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers- there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*
• Supportive and generous companysick pay
• Your Wellbeing-you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone

*Available only to perm employees

Application process
If you are interested in applying, please complete your application online and submit your current CV.

Assessment
The assessment is designed to enable you to showcase your suitability for management positions within Royal Mail. You will take part in a capability-based interview and a short management scenario exercise provided on the day.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: Thursday 5th June 2025 . Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.