Warehouse Operative jobs in United Kingdom

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Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

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04.06.2025

19.07.2025

On Site (5 days a week)

Location - St Edmunds DC | Fortress Way | Suffolk Park, Bury St Edmunds | Suffolk | IP32 7FQ

As a Distribution Centre Manager, you'll be responsible for the overall management, performance, and safety of the depot. This includes overseeing daily operations, managing teams, ensuring customer satisfaction, KPIs, and maintaining compliance with company policies and regulations. You'll drive continuous improvement initiatives and optimize processes to achieve operational excellence.

Join us at Greene King, the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. With a rich 220-year brewing and pub history, our 39,000-strong team are the guardians of a wholly British pub experience.

• Responsible for the adoption of cultural transformation towards operational excellence, focusing on safety and continuous improvement/lean methodologies to eliminate waste while delivering Safety, Service, Cost, and Environmental goals.
• Implement cultural change within the distribution operation, prioritizing safety and continuous improvement at all levels.
• Ensure on-time and in-full delivery targets are exceeded.
• Lead initiatives to improve employee engagement across the site.
• Manage the site P&L and budget, ensuring risks are mitigated and opportunities seized.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to maintain confidence in service delivery.
• Ensure statutory compliance and governance, including maintaining O licence standards.

• Experience in operational excellence and lean methodologies.
• Project management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong management experience within logistics, supply chain, or operations.
• Proven leadership in motivating and developing diverse teams, with a results-driven and engaged approach.
• Solid understanding of budgeting, financial management, and cost control.