Transport Regional General Manager

Menzies Distribution Solutions Ltd; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Volunteer day

Pension scheme with employer match

Job summary

Menzies Distribution Solutions Limited is recruiting an experienced Regional General Manager to lead transport and warehouse operations across multiple sites. You will identify opportunities, provide operational leadership, build strong customer relationships and drive continuous improvement to maximise profitable growth.

The role requires strategic planning, budgeting and a strong focus on health and safety, with travel across England as required.

Qualifications

• Senior logistics leadership experience in multi-site environments.
• Proven track record in customer relationship management.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing budgets.
• Excellent people management and performance coaching.
• CPC qualification or equivalent is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership to the region and drive continuous improvements.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships and service standards.
• Lead budgeting, planning and achievement of financial targets.
• Drive efficiencies and growth across sites using PDCA cycles.
• Ensure health and safety standards and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Customer relationship management

Leadership

Change management

Financial acumen

People management

Time management

Education

Graduate or equivalent

CPC Qualified

Tools

CPC

Job description

Menzies Distribution Solutions Limited are currently recruiting for an experienced Regional General Manager to join our business.

As a Transport Regional General Manager, Warehouse Associated , you will identify, organise and manage existing activity, providing operational leadership to the region as well as driving continuous business improvement with a focus on maximising profitable business growth. Building strong customer relationships and delivering the highest standards of customer service. Assess operational efficiencies, creating standardised process and procedures, implementing improvements and changes to drive efficiencies across the region. Identify business development opportunities and implement cost saving initiatives through strong leadership and development of the team. Ensuring all legislative and regulatory requirements are upheld and the highest standards of health and safety are always maintained. Developing a culture of exceptional customer service and service delivery.

The Details:

• Salary: £70k Per Annum (Dependant on experience) + Car Allowance
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Location: Various Sites around England - Field Based with the need to travel as and when the business requires.
• Monthly Pay

Key Duties and Accountabilities (will include but not be limited to):

• Building and maintaining excellent customer relationships to develop a constantly improving service. Building trust and credibility, thoroughly understanding the customers' needs and their supply chain structure. Seek to identify and deliver organic growth opportunities with existing customers and drive for synergy benefits between customers and other sites within other Business Units.
• Ensure that the company`s values and vision are achieved through the development of an open, interactive and communicative culture.
• Participate in the sales process including defining the service, negotiating the contract and building close working relationships with customers.
• Work closely with other business stakeholders to drive the business strategy.
• Participate in the budgeting process and manage and work within the annual operating budget. Monitor operational metrics and challenge operational colleagues to ensure budgeted financial targets are exceeded.
• Drive operational efficiencies and business growth - plan, do, check, act (PDCA).
• Ensure all legislative and regulatory requirements are met with particular emphasis on tachograph, driver's hours, maintenance schedules and records. Exercise operational controls in order to protect the company's Operators License and regularly audit systems to ensure compliance
• Set clear goals and targets for direct reports through the PDR process, recognise good performance and professionally manage poor performance.
• Provide a safe working environment, seeking opportunities to raise the profile of Health and Safety across the region
• Regularly review and define the capability required in the team and generate career progression opportunities for individuals who have the potential to develop.

Key Experience and Qualifications:

• Experienced Logistics professional, graduate or with relevant qualifications who will have previously operated at a senior level and preferably have managed a multi-site region
• Demonstrable experience of customer relationship management
• Good Transport and warehouse knowledge
• Proven capability of leading a function through significant change
• Experience of driving efficiency savings and business growth
• Good financial and business acumen with experience of managing budgets
• Excellent people management skills - driving accountability and delivering results through teams
• CPC Qualified

Technical skills and behavioural competencies:

• Customer Focused
• Planning and organising
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Problem solving and decision making
• Continually improving
• Leading and engaging people
• Developing self and others
• Managing people and performance
• Time For You: Relax with 28 days of annual leave.
• Give Back: Receive a paid day to volunteer for a charity of your choice.
• Appreciating You & Others: Celebrate special moments with Value Awards! Driver of the Year Awards, with 3 days paid leave for our finalists, including a fun filled day out for you and your partner and attendance to the awards ceremony with guest speakers.
• Your Future: Join our contributory workplace pension scheme for financial security.
• Exclusive Discounts: Through your Healthcare Cash Plan you will have access to a discount portal, where you can make savings on travel and hotels, cinema tickets, days out and much more. We also offer 20% off your mobile line rental at EE!
• Progression & Training: Unique Industry Training such as: LST, Moffett, Manual Handling, Double Decker & Load Security. A paid day leave per year for your periodic CPC Training provided by us.
• Health & Wellness: Healthcare Cash Plan, allowing you to claim cash back on a range of healthcare products and services including dental, optical, chiropody, and specialist consultations, tests, and scans. In addition to this there is Virtual GP access, On-Demand Physio, Gym Discounts, Online Health Assessments & 24/7 Counselling.

INCLUSION

Menzies Distribution Solutions is committed to creating a fair and inclusive environment where employees feel safe, proud and valued. We encourage ways of working that treat everyone fairly and with respect, and we look to create opportunities to improve the diversity of our workforce across all areas of the business.

We seek to attract and recruit people from the widest talent pool, who reflect the society in which we work. And we aim to encourage an inclusive culture where people can feel empowered to be the very best they can be, and to reach their full potential creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.