Warehouse Operations Manager
Warehouse Operations Manager - Lutterworth
9 Month Maternity Cover FTC - Monday- Friday - 2pm-10pm
If you’d enjoy being part of a busy and fast paced business with great benefits, and plenty of opportunities for career progression – join us at BSS as a Warehouse Operations Manager at our Magna Park based National Distribution Centre (NDC) and share our success and good times with a hard-working, friendly bunch of people.
What you’ll do?
To manage and coordinate the day to day operations of the NDC whilst effectively communicating with other departments within the Supply Chain. Provide leadership and direction to all operational colleagues and foster an environment of continuous improvement. Ensure the operations are run safely, efficiently, within budget and deliver the agreed standards of KPI performance and service level agreements.
What we are looking for?
You will be open, approachable and proactively engage with a diverse range of colleagues and have the ability to allow colleagues to be their genuine self whilst fostering a highly effective and efficient work ethic. You will have determination and resilience and the ability to have fun engaging with your team and the business
Ideally you will have a minimum 2 years of operational supervisory experience or above within a warehouse operation. And at least 5 years experience of warehouse distribution processes. You will have the ability to plan and prioritise workload. Be empathetic and understanding of colleagues health, safety and wellbeing. Excellent communication skills both written and oral and have strong leadership and listening skills.
Preferably you will have been IOSH trained or equivalent. You must hold a current UK Driving Licence.
What’s in it for you?
You’ll be supported by some of the best training & development in the industry. Our impressive internal Learn & Earn Apprenticeship Programmes (LEAP) means, whatever it is you do with us, it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop new skills across the Travis Perkins Group.
We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
- Competitive performance related bonus
- Save-As-You-Earn scheme
- Buy-As-You-Earn scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Colleague discounts across a variety of Group businesses; plus special discounts across our Merchanting businesses.
About us
We are BSS Industrial - We are a leading distributor of heating, pipeline, process and mechanical services equipment to the Building Services and Industrial sectors. Established over 110 years ago, we became a part of the Travis Perkins Group in 2010 and now have more than 50 BSS branches, along with a National Distribution Centre at Lutterworth in the East Midlands and a National Tube Distribution Centre in Coventry.
We have a wealth of experience in our people - technical support, customer care, product engineering and design along with our market leading own brand - BOSS.
We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves.
You be you, it makes us, us.
Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.
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