General Manager

Bis Henderson; Hastings; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in the United Kingdom seeks a General Manager to oversee operations in Hastings. The role involves managing warehouse and transport functions, ensuring compliance, and maintaining high performance against key metrics. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing large teams within supply chain or logistics and be skilled in budget management and team motivation. Excellent communication and a full UK driving license are required. This position offers competitive remuneration and additional benefits.

Benefits

Additional benefits

Qualifications

• Experience managing a large team in logistics.
• Proven record of achieving targets in fast-paced settings.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety regulations.
• Experience managing budgets and KPIs.
• Motivated with a strong work ethic.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Managerial experience in supply chain or FMCG.
• Full UK driving license required.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of the depot with a hands-on approach.
• Lead and motivate team towards demanding goals.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety regulations.
• Conduct staff appraisals and disciplinary procedures as necessary.
• Meet and exceed network service levels.

Skills

Team management

Health and Safety knowledge

Budget management

Communication skills

Logistics experience

Job description

Location: Hastings

Salary: £75K + additional benefits

Summary

As General Manager, you will provide effective leadership across warehouse and transport functions, ensuring smooth, efficient, and compliant operations. You will continuously review and challenge processes to identify improvements, operational efficiencies, and commercial opportunities.

You will hold full accountability for depot performance, including managing budgets, maximising profitability, and achieving agreed service, cost, quality, and compliance KPIs. This is a highly visible role where your decisions will directly influence business results.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility for actively managing the day‑to‑day running and operational procedures/performance of this depot with a "hands on approach".
• Leading and motivating a team in the pursuit of demanding cost, productivity and quality targets.
• Responsible for Compliance, Health and Safety and Depot Cost Analysis.
• Staff appraisals and disciplinaries when necessary.
• Ensuring we meet and exceed challenging network service levels will be a key requirement of this role.

Qualifications

• Have previous experience in managing a large team of people.
• Demonstrate a background of success in achieving and exceeding targets whilst delivering an outstanding experience in a fast‑paced environment.
• Exhibit practical knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety regulations.
• Have experience of managing a budget, working to operational KPI's and financial targets.
• Be motivated and passionate.
• Have a strong work ethic and desire to work as a team.
• Demonstrate excellent communication both verbally and written and the ability to build excellent relationships with peers, team members and key stakeholders.
• Have experience working within Supply chain, logistics, FMCG, warehouse or distribution at management level, including managing fleet operations.
• Have a full UK driving licence.

CPCProcessing Your Data Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Bis Henderson Recruitment is a leading provider of recruitment, interim management and consultancy services to the supply chain and logistics industry. Should you respond to this advertisement we may store your CV and contact details and will process this data for recruitment purposes only. Should we process your data, then we will always tell you that we are doing so. Please visit our website to read our Privacy Policy in full, in this Policy you will find information about our compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.

All applicants must have an unrestricted right to work in the UK as our client will not support visa sponsorship for this role.