Warehouse Shift Manager

GXO Logistics, Inc.; Worden; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Dental insurance

Company pension

GP service

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

MyBenefits discounts

Cycle to work

On-site gym

Dining room & shop

Job summary

GXO Logistics, Inc. in Leyland is seeking a Warehouse Shift Manager to lead the warehouse teams across departments and ensure the operation runs smoothly. You’ll be safety focused and drive continuous improvement while leveraging Warehouse Management Systems.

This is a full-time, permanent role on a 5 from 7 shift pattern (14:00–22:00) with a salary up to £48,000 per annum, inclusive of shift allowance. Benefits include leave, pension, and more.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising or managing a large team in a fast-paced warehouse.
• Understanding of operational cost drivers and P&L or cost centre management, health & safety, and CI.
• Strong team leadership and coaching skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate work across warehouse departments to meet customer needs.
• Ensure procedural conformance, customer satisfaction and contractual obligations.
• Report performance KPI and financial information; identify trends and opportunities.
• Manage budget targets using cost drivers and P&L awareness.

Skills

Team leadership

Customer focus

KPI reporting

P&L management

Health & Safety

Continuous improvement

Tools

Warehouse Management System (WMS)

Job description

Are you a Shift Manager looking for a new challenge? Maybe you’re ready for your next step? Do you enjoy providing guidance to your colleagues, enabling them to develop their skills?

Here at GXO, we are currently recruiting for a Warehouse Shift Manager to join our team in Leyland, supporting our customer, Waitrose. As a Warehouse Shift Manager, you’ll provide leadership and guidance for the warehouse teams across departments, ensuring that they have all the tools they need to do their role and that the operation runs smoothly. You’ll be safety focussed and have experience of driving continuous improvement and know your stuff when it comes to warehouse management systems.

This is a full time, permanent position, working an any 5 from 7 shift pattern of 14:00 till 22:00.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £48,000.00 per annum (inclusive of shift allowance).

• 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays).
• flexible dental insurance plans
• a company sponsored pension scheme
• a 24/7 online GP service
• life assurance
• a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme
• our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts
• a cycle to work scheme
• cashback cards
• a saving scheme
• subsidised, on-site gym
• colleague dining room and shop!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Manage and coordinate the work activities across the departments of warehouse colleagues, whilst ensuring a customer focused approach with a responsive nature to customer requirements
• Co‑ordinate customer requirements, ensuring procedural conformance, customer satisfaction and that contractual obligations are met
• Carry out the timely reporting of performance KPI and financial information, identifying trends and acting on areas for development
• Ensure the operation meets or exceeds budgeted targets set up for export operation with the use of key operational cost drivers and P&L management

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Previous experience supervising or managing a large team in a complex, fast‑paced warehouse environment
• An understanding of key operational cost drivers and P&L or cost centre management, health & safety and continuous improvement
• Excellent team leadership skills with the ability to develop and coach teams to ensure excellent performance
• The ability to perform under pressure, efficiently managing conflicting priorities whilst keeping a level head

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains

GXO is a leading provider of cutting‑edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.

GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.