Shift Manager

Morrisons; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK supermarket chain is looking for a Shift Manager to oversee the operations of a warehouse team. You will manage shift schedules, ensure effective resource allocation, and drive continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has experience in warehouse management and strong leadership skills. This role offers competitive benefits including discounts, holiday entitlement, and career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Six weeks holiday

15% store discount

Subsidised staff canteen

Free parking

Healthcare benefits

Career progression opportunities

Enhanced family leave

Qualifications

• Experience as a Shift Manager or equivalent in a fast-paced Warehouse/Distribution/Logistics environment.
• Proven experience in a people management role.
• Demonstrate ability to coach and encourage the team.
• Experience of managing budgets and controlling costs.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage all shift activities and scheduling.
• Monitor operational resource spend.
• Provide problem-solving guidance and coaching.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement.
• Develop Team Managers.

Skills

Resilience

People management

Coaching skills

Problem solving

Budget management

Leadership

Job description

Overview

More About The Role

Our Shift Managers know how to work at pace. It's ultimately their responsibility to manage our Team Managers and Warehouse Colleagues to ensure the right products are picked at a top pace so they can be sent to the right stores, on time! It's fast and ever-changing - are you up for the challenge?

Responsibilities

• Manage all shift activities within your team scheduling rotas to achieve labour requirements
• Managing resources to deliver objectives
• Monitoring operational resource spend
• Overseeing the operation and providing problem solving guidance and coaching to your team
• Driving a culture of continuous improvement within your teams
• Team Manager performance and development

About You

• As well as tons of resilience you must have:
• Experience as a Shift Manager or equivalent in a fast paced Warehouse/ Distribution/ Logistics environment
• Proven experience in a people management role with the ability to deliver strong results through a team
• The ability to coach and encourage your team and help them explore opportunities to continuously improve how they do their job
• Demonstrated the ability to problem solve, and implement process changes in order to improve operational performance.
• Experience of managing budgets and controlling costs
• Strong leadership and coaching skills in order to engage motivate and develop large teams with varying skill sets

In return for your hard work we will offer you:

• Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays)
• 15% discount in our stores available from the day you join us
• Additional 10% discount More Card for a friend or family member
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Subsidised staff canteen
• Free parking Market leading pension and life assurance
• Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more
• Long Service Awards Optional Payroll charity donations
• Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave

About The Company

From a Bradford market stall to the UK's 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer.

We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK in over almost 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet.

Every week, 11 million customers pass through our doors and around 97,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our (url removed) service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.

We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons