Shift Manager

DPD Group UK; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading delivery company in Maidstone is seeking an experienced Shift Manager to enhance depot operations. This role involves achieving operational objectives, managing a high-performing team, and ensuring compliance with standards. Candidates should possess strong communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and excellence in data analysis. The position offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and opportunities for career advancement.

Benefits

Holiday trading

Enhanced maternity and paternity package

Free life assurance

Free onsite car parking

Health kiosks at locations

Discounted shopping

Milestone days off

Free eye tests

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced operation with people management experience.
• Ability to inspire, motivate, and manage a team.
• Demonstrated problem resolution and decision-making skills.
• Ability to perform comprehensive reporting.

Responsibilities

• Achieve depot objectives in operational, compliance, financial, customer service, and HR tasks.
• Oversee processing of collections and returns to the depot.
• Handle inbound customer service queries effectively.
• Ensure trailers depart on time.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Decisive decision-making

Problem resolution skills

Time management skills

Data analysis

Resilience

Self-motivation

Tools

Google Chrome applications

Job description

Overview

• Contract Type: Permanent / 40 Hours Per Week
• Salary: £39,676 plus Bonus
• Location: Maidstone Depot, Larkfield, Kent ME20 6WT
• Days of Work: Monday to Friday
• Hours of Work: 10am Start

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service. You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of nearly £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career.

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible. Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!!!

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer.

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Shift Manager, to help strengthen our depot operations team.

As a Shift Manager you will be required to achieve depot objectives in terms of operational, compliance, financial, customer service and HR tasks and responsibilities, through effective management of employees, maintenance of company operating standards and ISO operating procedures specific to own areas of accountability.

In this role you will be working closely with our Drivers and Warehouse Operatives. You will be responsible for overseeing the accurate processing of any Collections and Returns to the Depot. You will also be dealing with any inbound customer service queries ensuring appropriate action is taken and the query is dealt with in an effective manner.

Other key accountabilities will be;

• Ensure trailer departures from Depot and customer sites leave at the designated time
• Ensure all parcels are collection scanned
• Ensure depot target for PPMHR is achieved
• Ensure company target for security searches is achieved
• Ensure all relevant systems and reports are analysed and updated in a timely manner.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for :

You will have experience in a fast paced operation with proven and demonstrable people management experience, involving direct accountability and responsibility for motivating and leading a high performing team, ideally within a Transport Setting. We would also expect:

• You will have strong communication skills with the ability to inspire, motivate and manage a team.
• Decisive and effective decision-making, problem resolution and time management skills.
• Demonstrate high levels of resilience, self-motivation and flexibility.
• Excellent computer skills with the ability to use Google chrome applications
• The ability to do comprehensive reporting, alongside analysis of data is a key requirement for this role.
• You will be highly vigilant to any unscrupulous activity taking swift and appropriate action when required.
• Demonstrate the core DPD DNA values of Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Caring and Accountability.

Benefits

About our benefits:

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few…

• Holiday trading
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package
• Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
• Free onsite car parking for all employees
• Health Kiosks visiting every location
• Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
• Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
• For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.

If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today.