Warehouse Manager

BBF Limited; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in food manufacturing is seeking a Warehouse Manager to lead operations at their Blackburn site. In this pivotal role, you will oversee warehouse teams, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards while driving continuous improvement initiatives. Your leadership will enhance stock management processes and ensure the smooth flow of goods in and out of the facility. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team dedicated to quality and customer satisfaction, with a focus on professional development and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

25 days holiday per annum

Access to Company Shop

Free on-site parking

Free refreshments

Life Assurance

24/7 Access to a GP

Personal & Professional Development

Quarterly and Yearly Awards

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing warehouse operations in food manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of health, safety, and food safety compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage warehouse teams ensuring safety and compliance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and manage stock effectively.

Skills

Warehouse Operations Management

Health and Safety Compliance

Food Safety Standards

Stock Management

People Management

Continuous Improvement Mindset

Communication Skills

Education

Experience in Food Manufacturing

Management Experience

Tools

WMS Systems

ERP Systems

Excel

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Blackburn, Lancashire

The Warehouse Manager will provide leadership and management support to the warehouse teams based at both the Blackburn and Shadsworth Bakery sites.

Competitive Salary

BBF Limited

Blackburn, Lancashire

The Warehouse Manager will provide leadership and management support to the warehouse teams based at both the Blackburn and Shadsworth Bakery sites.

They will work to ensure the successful delivery of professional inbound, stock holding and outbound processes to appropriately service the bakeries whilst maintaining a safe working environment, compliance with required standards and providing the necessary support to direct reports and cross-functional colleagues.

Who are we looking for?

Previous experience managing warehouse operations within a similar-sized food manufacturing environment.

Management experience in Health and Safety, food safety and GMP compliance.

Demonstratable understanding of stock management and WMS systems (preferred).

Strong people management and influencing skills, with a keen eye for detail.

Results-driven with a continuous improvement mindset and a flexible, can-do attitude.

Able to work autonomously, prioritise effectively, and stay objective under pressure.

Strong team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills.

IT literate with working knowledge of ERP systems and Excel.

Desirable: Valid FLT licence.

The role of Warehouse Manager at BBF

Maintain and continuously improve all aspects of health and safety, food safety and GMP.

Oversee the maintenance of all racking, FLT's, and storage areas, ensuring all safety checks (weekly, monthly, yearly) are completed in line with HSE guidelines.

Lead continuous Improvement initiatives across the yard, storage, systems and vehicle management processes.

Drive waste and cost reduction through minimising damages and operational errors.

Work closely with operations and site teams to ensure smooth movement of goods in and out of the factory.

Attend daily and weekly site review meetings, ensuring actions are clearly communicated and delivered to conclusion.

Resolve service-impacting issues effectively, both internally and externally.

Liaise with Supply Chain and 3PLs on transport requirements to ensure alignment with production plans.

Ensure all vehicle temperature checks and inspection sheets are completed to the required standards.

Accurately process all incoming and outgoing paperwork into the ERP system, collaborating with Finance to resolve any invoice discrepancies.

Monitor and maintain stock storage locations within the ERP system, ensuring correct batch/date is shown and transfers to external storage are timely and accurate.

Working collaboratively Identify and resolve stock date and batch rotation issues.

Provide training, mentoring, and support to build a high-performing, multi-skilled warehouse team.

Set up and maintain warehouse KPIs, ensuring accurate reporting and performance tracking.

Manage the CHEP pallet system, including stock counts and reporting requirements.

Lead and complete all scheduled and ad hoc stock counts and reporting results and investigating / resolving variances..

Who are BBF Limited?

BBF Limited are one of the UK's leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.

Our team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cakes, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more!

We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join BBF Limited! We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it!

On top of making some delicious cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too! Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you'll be coming to work smiling.

What benefits do we offer?

Financial

Competitive Salary

4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit

Access to 'Company Shop' - a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products

Health & Wellbeing

25 days holiday per annum (plus statutory holidays)

24/7 Access to a GP

24/7 Bereavement Support

Personal & Professional Development

Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team

Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses

A few other bits

Quarterly and Yearly BBF Star Awards - recognising those who have gone above and beyond!

Free on-site parking

Free refreshments

Recruitment Agencies

All our recruitment is managed centrally via the internal recruitment team. We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren't adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly and therefore any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won't be liable for a fee. Please don't speculatively contact us in relation to this vacancy or any oth

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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