Warehouse Team Manager - Back shift

Co-op Group; Coventry; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail cooperative in Coventry seeks a Warehouse Team Manager for the back shift. This role involves managing a large team, driving performance, and ensuring safety standards. The ideal candidate will have a logistics background, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to team effectiveness. This position offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including holiday entitlement and discounts on products.

Benefits

Competitive salary

31 days holiday per year

30% off Co-op branded products

Pension up to 10% employer contributions

Free eye tests every 2 years

Qualifications

• Experience managing a large team.
• Ability to work at pace and accuracy.
• Track record of meeting critical performance measures.
• Understanding of warehouse policies and procedures.
• Strong organization skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a sizeable team of warehouse operatives.
• Inspire, engage and coach your team.
• Drive warehouse standards and policies.
• Analyze performance data.
• Identify areas for process improvement.

Skills

Team management

Logistics or FMCG knowledge

Communication skills

IT skills

Planning skills

Job description

Overview

Warehouse Team Manager - Back Shift
£35,650 - £39,215 plus great benefits
2pm till 10pm, 5 over 7 days including weekends
39 hours per week, Permanent, Full time
The Co-operative Retail Logistics, Unit D2; Central Boulevard, Coventry, CV6 4BX

What you’ll do

• manage a sizeable team of warehouse operatives
• inspire, engage and coach your team to be highly efficient
• work towards tight deadlines and critical measures
• develop and build positive relationships with various internal business partners
• drive warehouse standards, procedures and policies- particularly health and safety
• analyse performance data
• identify areas to improve process within your team and the warehouse operations
• plan and organise the delivery of own and your team’s workload

This role would suit someone who has

• previously managed a sizeable team, preferably from a logistics or FMCG background
• the ability to work at pace and accuracy
• a great track record of reaching and exceeding critical performance measures
• an understanding and great knowledge of warehouse policies and procedures
• great planning skills and able to organise your own and team’s workload
• an understanding of how poor service can impact stores and customers
• strong and confident communication skills
• excellent IT skills

Benefits and rewards

At Co-op you'll do work that matters, and you'll be rewarded for your hard work with a competitive salary (including additional shift allowances) and a benefits package which includes holidays starting from 31 days per year (including bank holidays), 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores, a pension with up to 10% employer contributions, plus:

• Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Free employee assistance programme with extensive health, financial and wellbeing support
• Access to credit unions for loans and savings, plus rental deposit loans and season ticket loans
• Free eye tests every 2 years
• On-site facilities including a subsidised canteen and free parking

Equality, diversity and recruitment

At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate. You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process. You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

We reserve the right to remove a vacancy before the scheduled closing date.