Shift Manager - Aberdeen (Collections)

DPD Group UK; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday trading

Enhanced parental leave

Free life assurance 4x salary

Free onsite car parking

Health kiosks at locations

Discounted shopping for retailers

Milestone days off

Eye test support

Job summary

DPD Group is seeking an experienced Shift Manager to strengthen our depot operations team in the UK. You will manage a high-performing team, oversee collections and returns, and ensure compliance with company standards and ISO procedures, while delivering key KPI targets.

You will work in a fast-paced environment with a focus on operational excellence, HR responsibilities, and proactive reporting. This role offers growth opportunities and a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced operation with proven people management responsibility.
• Strong communication skills capable of inspiring and leading a team.
• Decisive problem-solving, time management and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Achieve depot objectives related to operational performance, compliance, financial targets and HR tasks.
• Oversee processing of collections and returns at the depot.
• Analyse systems and reports, ensuring timely updates and data accuracy.
• Drive collection targets, early volume and ETA performance.

Skills

People management

Team leadership

Communication skills

Decision making

Time management

Reporting & data analysis

Google Chrome proficiency

Tools

Google Chrome

Job description

• Days of Work: Friday to Tuesday
• Hours of Work: 13:30 - 22:00

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. When joining DPD you are not just starting a job, you are vital to our journey to be the most customer centric, inclusive, sustainable and leading parcel delivery provider within the UK who embraces and drives change, placing our people and our customers at the heart of what we do.

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 relating to

• Operational Performance
• Compliance to all company and legislative requirements
• Financial targets and objectives
• HR tasks and responsibilities

You will achieve these througheffective management of employees, maintenance of company operating standards and ISO operating procedures specific to your 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.

Other key accountabilities will be;

• Ensure Collection Service targets are achieved
• Ensure depot targets for Early Volume are achieved
• Ensure company target for Collection ETAs is achieved
• Ensure company target for Saturn Success is achieved
• Ensureall 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.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.

Additional Information

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.