Shift Operations Manager Warehouse

Aviva Plc; Northwich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK supermarket chain is seeking a Shift Manager in Northwich to oversee team operations in a fast-paced warehouse environment. The role involves scheduling, people management, and driving continuous improvement within the teams. Ideal candidates will have previous experience in a similar role and strong leadership skills. The position also offers extensive benefits including generous holiday, discounts, and career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Six weeks holiday including bank holidays

15% store discount

Career progression opportunities

Subsidised staff canteen

Free parking

Market leading pension and life assurance

Healthcare/Well-being benefits

Enhanced family/maternity/parental leave

Qualifications

• Experience as a Shift Manager in a Warehouse/Distribution/Logistics environment.
• Proven ability to deliver strong results through people management.
• Experience managing budgets and controlling costs.

Responsibilities

• Manage all shift activities and team scheduling.
• Provide problem-solving guidance and coaching to your team.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement within teams.

Skills

People management

Problem-solving

Coaching

Budget management

Leadership

Continuous improvement

Operational performance

Tools

JDA

WMS implementation

Job description

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?

Other tasks include

• 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

Qualifications / Experience

• 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
• Experience in JDA or the implementation of a WMS.
• 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

Benefits

• 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 us

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 Morrisons.com service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.

We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.