Warehouse Manager

PE Global Recruitment are currently recruiting for an experienced Warehouse Manager to join our client on a permanent basis. Excellent salary and benefits are on offer for the right candidate.

The Client:

As part of their Recipe for Growth and the opening of their new Newcastle West Warehouse facility, we are looking for a Warehouse Manager to join their team. This role will be responsible for a team of circa one hundred colleagues across the warehouse management, inbound and outbound teams and play a key part in the overall growth of the organisation along with helping to maintain their core ethos– keeping the customer at the heart of everything they do.

Key Accountabilities:

• General management and overall leadership of a team of section managers, team leaders, and colleagues across all logistics activities in line with strategic KPIs.
• Overall responsibility to ensure Inbound, Outbound and Inventory Managers are utilising and developing robust teams to ensure consistent long-term growth is achieved.
• Constant monitoring and evaluation of available data to ensure optimal warehouse layout and stock integrity is being achieved.
• To identify opportunities and implement initiatives for continuous improvements in ways of working, quality, consistency, and effectiveness of process.
• Create an inclusive and collaborative culture where the role of each team member in the contribution to the organisational goals is understood.

Requirements:

• Previous Warehouse Management experience is essential. Preferably from an FMCG background within a face paced environment. 
• Willingness to examine and challenge the status quo and break down silos where necessary with fact-based arguments to ensure continuous improvement of his/her team and the wider Operations team.
• Confident and consistent communicator who has an ability to flex his/her style to ensure the message is understood regardless of the audience.
• Highly analytical and comfortable with technology such as using internal data reporting tools to drill down into the data to see what is going on.
• Extremely organised and comfortable operating in a highly dynamic and fast paced environment.
• The ability and confidence to interpret often ambiguous data in making timely decisions based on evaluation of the associated risks and subsequent impacts on all stakeholders.
• Ability to delegate in line with setting the expectation, assigning responsibility and ensuring responsibility is taken by your team.
• Is collaborative and yet confident to constructively challenge for the right result with an ability to influence peers and senior managers.

Core Competencies:

• Understanding Your Customers – acts as a role model in personal approach to internal and external customer goals. Takes time to understand the underlying needs of the stakeholders beyond those initially expressed.
• Flexibility and Adaptability – Demonstrates understanding of how change impacts people. Anticipates resistance to change and works to support effective change initiatives.
• Building Effective Relationships – Is a role model for maintaining constructive and effective relationships with others across departments and other boundaries. Demonstrates effective communication techniques and skills and is seen as a team player.
• Communication and Listening – Exceptional communication skills – writes and speaks clearly in a variety of communication settlings and style.
• Successfully delivers messages to all levels of the business and stakeholders achieving the desired effect.