Production Supply Manager - Aberdeen Mail Centre

None; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Mail is seeking a Production Supply Manager for their Aberdeen Mail Centre, responsible for leading a team to ensure accurate traffic forecasting and efficient resource allocation. This role demands strong leadership and analytical skills, as well as the ability to manage change effectively. Candidates should demonstrate a flair for data management and a collaborative spirit to inspire their team.

Benefits

Pension scheme

25 days annual leave

10% bonus potential

Qualifications

• Relevant leadership experience in a production or finance environment.
• Ability to manage large volumes of data effectively.
• Proven ability to build relationships and influence at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Manage production data recording and support daily, weekly, monthly resource allocation.
• Collaborate with shift managers for innovative staffing solutions.
• Lead continuous improvements to enhance business competitiveness.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Communication

Change management

Education

Degree in Maths or equivalent

Job description

Job reference number324838

Production Supply Manager - Aberdeen Mail Centre

Salary starting at £39,777, 10% bonus potential, 25 days annual leave and pension

Full time

Permanent

Aberdeen Mail Centre

About the role
Reporting to the Optimised Production Leader, you will manage a team of administration staff responsible for leading the production of an accurate traffic forecast and to support the efficient daily, weekly and monthly resourcing of the Plant. Ensuring all traffic data recording and reporting is robust and to business standards you will be expected to hit business targets.

You will need to work with shift managers across the plant to find innovative new ways of working to ensure staffing solutions are cost effective and robust plans are in place for seasonal events to ensure clearances are maintained. The role will involve a high level of continuous improvements to keep the business competitive.

Please Note: Although the scheduled hours for this role will be between 07:00 - 16:00 there will be significant need for flexibility to work around business needs, including late and weekend shifts particularly around peak periods.

About you
We are looking for an organised, analytical thinker used to dealing with large volumes of data who also has experience of change management.

In order to excel in this role you must be a flexible, hard-working and creative individual with a can do attitude who can work to tight deadlines and challenging targets. Although leadership skills are important as a manager we are more focused on your ability to build relationships and influence people at all levels across the business.

What skills and experience are we looking for?

A degree in Maths or equivalent would be beneficial but if you have extensive experience and knowledge of working in a production or finance environment this is not essential.

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.

Shift patterns: Monday - Friday 41 hours a week between 07:00 - 1600

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

Assessment process
Your face to face 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 more details of which will be provided on the day.

Assessment process
Your face to face 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 more details of which will be provided on the day.

About Us

At Royal Mail we connect companies, customers and communities across the country, delivering a ‘one-price-goes-anywhere’, universal postal service to more than 30 million addresses. As one of the UK’s leading companies, we are focused on being recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe.

Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we’ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

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

Closing Date: 24th June . Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
Shortlisting: Week commencing 24th June
Interviews expected: Week Commencing 7th July

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