Operations Manager

RS UK & Ireland; England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in integrated supply solutions seeks an Operations Manager to oversee service excellence across multiple UK sites. The role involves managing teams, driving operational improvements, and ensuring client satisfaction, making it essential for a skilled professional with a strong leadership background.

Qualifications

• Ability to lead a team to deliver strong results.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for building client and stakeholder relationships.
• Operational background with success in engagement and influence.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams in site-based operations ensuring high performance.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement.
• Manage relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal Skills

Operational Management

Continuous Improvement

Job description

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Locations covering - Hyde, Middleton, Stoke and Aycliffe.

As the Operations Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring we deliver exceptional service to our clients within our integrated stores solutions and ensure the successful delivery of all sites operational elements and people management contained within this.

You will lead teams of site-based colleagues such as envoys, stores managers and supervisors within a geographical location and ensure a consistent approach to delivering excellence across the board.

What you will be doing:

• Delivering a program to drive a consistently high performance in operational management as measured through the Opex program.
• To engage with and communicate to clients within the region the on-site transformational benefits that your team are delivering.
• To manage a plan to ensure a consistent approach to behaviours, knowledge, attitude and output across the site-based teams and supporting functions.
• To ensure a full program of activities is in place across all integrated stores solutions relating to SLA and KPI metrics such as but not limited to SSL review, obsolescence reviews, goods receipt and processing.
• To embed and drive a culture of continuous improvement across all site locations and throughout the team.
• Utilise data to identify opportunities and drive efficiencies in the above processes.
• Supporting new business by providing a centre of operational excellence with the region to use as a benchmark for industry best practice, assisting in reference visits.
• Develop strong client relationships through the communication and management of the above.
• Manage all elements relating to the stores solutions that deliver against the RS Integrated Supply Client satisfactions scorecard.
• Manage a team of site-based stores personnel and all relevant line management accountabilities connected with this.
• Work collaboratively with the Client services manager and the strategic partner managers to ensure all service elements of client contracts are achieved.
• To act as a point of resolution and first contact for the client for all relevant matters.
• To provide a full and clear training program to drive consistent performance across all locations.
• To carry out such other duties which are consistent with the nature and responsibilities of the job role.
• Drive a program of activity to ensure the full team are clear on objectives and how this links to the Client service metrics and the RS Integrated Supply 2025 strategy.
• Measurable activities to drive performance both internally and externally.
  
  

What do I need to be successful?

If you have the following skills and experience, we want to hear from you:

• Ability to lead a team to deliver strong results.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build long term relationships with clients and stakeholders at site level with a self-awareness required to operate successfully at a senior level.
• Leadership of teams across multiple locations with demonstrable success in engagement and influence.
• Ability to interpret reports and KPI data into deliverable actions.
• Operational background which can credibly demonstrate the above.
• Can do attitude – the ambition and drive to challenge, deliver excellence and be positive about change.
  
  

We are RS Integrated Supply.

Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we’re the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses.

RS Integrated Supply is one of the world’s leading providers of Integrated Supply Solutions to manufacturing industries for the provision of MRO (indirect) products. Our portfolio consists of Procurement Services, Transactional Processing, Stores Management and Inventory Optimisation enabled by industry leading digital platforms. We deliver world class results to world class companies in industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Foods, Beverage, Automotive and Aerospace.

We are one team. We deliver brilliantly. We do the right thing. We make every day better. These are our values. They unite our c.9,000 global colleagues and differentiate us from our competition. They are a mix of how we work today and how we must step up for the future. Most importantly, it is one set of values shaped by our people, for our people.

Together, we can make great things happen. Aim for amazing and beyond.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

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