Warehouse Shift Manager - Fresh

Morrisons; Northwich; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Morrisons is seeking a dedicated Shift Manager to oversee warehouse operations, manage team activities, and promote continuous improvement. Ideal candidates will have prior experience in shift management within fast-paced environments, alongside strong leadership skills. Join us in delivering quality products to our customers and enjoy competitive benefits including discounts, holiday allowances, and career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Six weeks holiday

15% store discount from day one

Career progression opportunities

Subsidised staff canteen

Free parking

Market leading pension and life assurance

Healthcare benefits including Digital GP

Discounts at high street shops and cinemas

Qualifications

• Experience as a Shift Manager in a fast-paced Warehouse/Distribution environment.
• Proven experience in people management, delivering strong results through a team.
• Ability to coach and develop teams to continuously improve.

Responsibilities

• Manage all shift activities and resources within the team.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement.
• Oversee operations, providing problem-solving guidance.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Coaching

Continuous Improvement

Tools

WMS

JDA

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

About you

As well as tons of resilience you must have:

• 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

In return for your hard work we will offer you:

• 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.

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