Warehouse Team Leader

Phoenix Medical Supplies; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical wholesaler in Scotland seeks a Warehouse Team Leader for their East Kilbride Distribution Centre. The candidate will coordinate warehouse activities, manage staff productivity, and ensure compliance with service level requirements. Successful applicants should possess numeracy and literacy skills, attention to detail, and experience in a similar role. Competitive salary and benefits included.

Benefits

22 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays

Access to High Street discounts

Free Parking

Employee Assistance Programme

Contributory Pension Scheme

Accredited Training Programmes

Responsibilities

• Act as a link between supervisors and warehouse staff.
• Coordinate, prioritise, and delegate warehouse activities.
• Ensure depot service level requirements are met.
• Manage productivity within the warehouse team.
• Control all aspects of staff operations to ensure duties are completed.

Skills

Numeracy and literacy skills

Attention to detail

Team Player

Communication Skills

Ability to prioritise own workload

Experience in a similar role

Job description

Overview

Job Type: Permanent. Job Sector: Unspecified. Region: Scotland. Location: Glasgow. Salary Description: Competitive. Posted: 21/10/2025. Recruiter: Phoenix Medical Supplies. Job Ref: kal-PHOENIXHealthcareDistributionLimited-45491-641. Job Views: 1.

About the company

PHOENIX Healthcare Distribution is a national full-line pharmaceutical wholesaler with a network of distribution centres nationwide. We pride ourselves on delivering a high quality supply chain service to our customers, who include pharmacy, GPs, and hospitals. All of our depots are licensed by the MHRA, and comply with BSI ISO Quality and Environmental standards. We operate twice daily deliveries from our distribution centres across Monday to Friday and on a Saturday morning, and our local teams are supported by a centralised function team, primarily from our Head Office in Runcorn. At Phoenix Medical Supplies we value, support and celebrate working with colleagues from all backgrounds. As part of our commitment to ensuring equal opportunities for all, we strive to support the residents in each and all of our local communities, gaining employment.

Opportunity

We are currently looking for a Warehouse Team Leader within our East Kilbride Distribution Centre. You will act as a link between the supervisors and warehouse staff providing immediate hands on leadership and supervision ensuring maximum effort and attention to detail in a safe and tidy environment. Your main responsibilities will include coordinating, prioritising and delegating warehouse activities in order to ensure that depot service level requirements are met at all time, effective management and control of productivity within the warehouse team, to ensure the achievement of contractual and internal KPI’s are met and control all aspects of staff operations within the depot to ensure all duties are carried out as required and encourage high standards of work from each employee.

Salary and hours

Salary: £26,208.69 Per Annum (£12.98 per hour). £0.20 per hour supplement for hours worked between 4pm and 10pm, and a 25% supplement for hours worked between 10pm and 6am.

Working Pattern: 38.83 hours per week, Monday - Friday 14:00-22:00 and 1 in 3 Sundays 08:00-12:00.

Training, wellbeing and benefits

You will receive a comprehensive induction from the Learning and Development Facilitators. We pride ourselves on ensuring the wellbeing of our employees and providing a good working environment and benefits package, which includes:

• 22 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with length of service
• Access to High Street discounts
• Free Parking
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Accredited Training Programmes

Essential skills and experience

• Numeracy and literacy skills
• Attention to detail
• Team Player
• Communication Skills
• Ability to prioritise own workload
• Experience in a similar role

Who we want

Our ideal candidate will be organised and self-motivated so if this sounds like you we are very keen to speak to you to discuss our opportunity further. You can apply here online by completing our short application. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

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