Inbound & Bulk Store Operations Manager

Hachette UK Distribution; South Oxfordshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

34 days annual holiday including Bank Holidays

Pension Plan and Life Assurance

Cycle to Work scheme

Generous discounts on books

Mental Health First Aiders and EAP

Job summary

A leading book distribution company in the UK seeks an experienced Inbound & Bulk Store Operations Manager to oversee operations and ensure the efficient integration of stock into the supply chain. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, operational expertise, and the ability to collaborate across departments to support business growth. This full-time role offers various employee benefits including annual leave, pension plans, and more.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to manage and connect across departments.
• Operational excellence and safety focus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee inbound operations and ensure safe inventory handling.
• Lead the team in maintaining operational excellence.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to support business growth.

Skills

Operational expertise

People management

Partner relationship management

Job description

Base pay range

This range is provided by Hachette UK Distribution. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Who we are and what we do

We, Hachette UK Distribution, are the leading book distribution company in the UK. We are one of the most advanced distribution centres in Europe, with leading-edge automation and modern systems which will ensure world-class service to customers and publisher clients. We ship in excess of 60 million books globally each year and supply one out of every four books to the UK trade.

Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.

Hachette UK Distribution is part of the Hachette UK publishing group.

What you\'ll be doing

As operational demands continue to grow across our distribution network, the Inbound & Bulk Store Operations Manager plays a critical role in ensuring the seamless flow of inbound goods, efficient use of materials handling equipment, and the smooth integration of stock into our wider supply chain. This role is central to maintaining operational excellence, supporting service levels, and enabling the business to scale while meeting the evolving needs of our publishers and customers.

Operating at the heart of our distribution centre, this position provides strategic and hands-on leadership across inbound operations, with a focus on the timely and accurate receipt, put-away, and storage of inventory. With direct responsibility for Inbound processes and all the bulk storage and internal truck tramming activities, the successful candidate will ensure that the site and team members remain safe, agile, compliant, and optimised for continuous flow. The role also has the responsibility for all sites waste management activities and partner relations. This includes managing people, processes, systems, and equipment in a fast-paced and high-volume environment where precision, speed, and safety are critical.

Who we are looking for

This is not just a leadership role—it is a business enabler. The Operations Manager will be expected to work closely with other site leaders, senior stakeholders, publishing partners, and logistics providers to ensure our warehouse performance supports business growth, customer satisfaction, and future service innovation. The ideal candidate will demonstrate operational expertise, strong people management, partner relationship management and the ability to connect the dots across departments to create a streamlined, resilient, and high-performing flowing operation.

What we offer

Our people are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this. Therefore, we offer an extensive list of benefits that include:

• 34 days annual holiday including Bank Holidays
• Pension Plan and Life Assurance schemes
• Company enhanced family policy including maternity, paternity and shared parental
• Reward programme giving discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• 2 Community Days per year
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Generous discounts on books we publish
• Mental Health First Aiders / Champions and an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Wide-ranging training library
• Development Programmes including Mentoring
• Staff Events
• Many employee networks to join
• Free onsite parking
• Free tea and coffee

Our commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

We will notify all candidates of the outcome of their application.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Distribution
• Industries
• Book Publishing

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