Logistics Team Leader

Greencore; Northampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading convenience food provider in Northampton is seeking a Logistics Team Leader to manage inbound and outbound logistics processes. You will lead and develop a diverse team, ensuring adherence to safety and efficiency standards. Ideal candidates will have experience in logistics and possess strong leadership skills. This role offers competitive pay and development opportunities within a vibrant team. Working weekends is a requirement, highlighting the commitment needed for success in this role.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Enhanced parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Must be able to work weekends.
• Experience in logistics ideally as a manager.
• Knowledge of distribution and warehouse operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver logistics processes safely.
• Supervise team activities to ensure safety.
• Provide leadership and direction to logistics teams.

Skills

Logistics and distribution experience

Team leadership

Knowledge of safety policies

Goal setting

Job description

Shift pattern available: Friday to Tuesday, 06:00-14:30

Pay rate: Competitive

(Please note that the anticipated start date for this position is early January)

Why Greencore

We're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast‑moving business, we're proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK.

Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals.

In FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of 1.8bn.

Our extensive direct‑to‑store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development.

We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

Here at Northampton, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products every day. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.

What you'll be doing

As Logistics Team Leader you will lead a team to deliver the inbound or outbound processes safely and accurately in line with the logistics plans.

• Direct team members to follow standard operating procedures and use allocated resources to deliver outputs as determined by the Logistics plans
• Supervise team activities to ensure safety, for self and others, always
• Provide leadership and direction to the logistics teams to ensure that people are engaged, focused and delivering their potential
• Implement and embed continuous improvements by ensuring team members understand and use new/improved process, practices and systems to enhance team performance
• Ensure that all team members have the skills and understanding necessary to successfully complete their role and receive on the job training and have training plans in place to support their ongoing development
• Produce all necessary documentation and information to ensure that a clear audit trail of activity is available for review and analysis
• Participate as a member of a cross‑functional operations team to identify and build collaborative working relationships which deliver solutions to immediate issues and identify ways in which performance across the operational team can be improved

What we're looking for

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Must be able to work weekends
• Experience of logistics and distribution, ideally gained as an operative or people manager
• Demonstratable knowledge of the distribution/warehouse business
• Experienced in implementing safety policies and procedures
• Experience leading and managing a diverse team
• Experience setting a goal / target and supporting others with achieving the goal

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job‑related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.