Depot Manager

I am recruiting for a Depot Manager who will be responsible in creating a culture to deliver, empower and optimise performance across the Distribution centre for the inbound and outbound operation based in Worcester

Depot Manager Key Tasks

• Develop a culture of aspiration & excellence

• Accountable and ownership of actions

• Demonstrates leadership capability through strong coaching, mentoring and people management skills that enables their team to deliver high performing results

• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues

• Responsible for contingency planning and incident control

• Promotes and instils the companies behaviours across all levels of the function.

• Responsible for process confirmation, legal and audit compliance

• Creating succession pathways both up through and across organisation to enable potential and growth

• Drives a best in class service model by reviewing, understanding and addressing adverse impacts to customer service

Dept Manager Experience

• CPC holder

• Experience of managing a budget of £15m + per annum

• Managing 3rd Party Subcontractors

• Experience managing large operational teams

• Driver Agency Management

• Fleet management of over 200 assets

• Strong operational knowledge of planning and Scheduling that operates 24/7

• Experience of working in large scale transport network and direct to customer deliveries

• Knowledge of transport management systems

• Strong numeracy and IT literate with good Excel and data handling skills

• Knowledge and understanding of transport KPI’s with understanding of financial management / performance of the operation.

• Experience in a unionised environment

• Ability to coach, train, develop direct reports

• Good decision-making skills, able to analyse, prioritise and plan as well as responding to quickly changing workloads

• Driving a culture of high performance, safety, compliance and Continuous Improvement