Overview
Warehouse Manager
Warehouse Manager – Ayr – £34,650p.a. + benefits. An experienced warehouse manager is required to assist the Site Operations Manager with running the Bensons warehouse effectively to enable daily, weekly and monthly objectives to be met. Ensuring all inbound and outbound activities are completed to plan to deliver excellent service, whilst maintaining high standards of health and safety and cost control. Liaising with other departments to ensure all customer orders are completed on time and in full.
Working hours : 8am -5pm Monday to Friday. Flexibility is a must during peak periods and to cover absence.
The Role
- Support a safe and legally compliant Warehouse Operation
- Supporting the Site Operations Manager ensuring that all processes are adhered to on site.
- Supporting the warehouse operations, operating plans, equipment and resourcing levels meet demand.
- Exemplifies the company’s values and behaviours. Be an inspirational leader communicating consistently.
- Customer focused, ensuring all colleagues understand the impact their role has on customer service; managing performance to improve NPS.
- Provide innovative solutions to continuously improve performance
- Coach and mentor the team building talent and succession plans throughout the Warehouse Operation.
- Work closely with the Site Operations Manager to ensure efficiencies can be identified and best in practice procedures put into place.
- Supporting objective setting and performance reviews are in place for all colleagues.
- Help to Organise service and maintenance of MHE in line with legal requirements.
The Skills needed…
Qualifications & Experience
- Previous experience within a warehousing operation at management level in warehousing and distribution environment
- Experience using a warehouse management system
- Previous supervisory experience
- Able to demonstrate the ability to improve team performance
- Knowledge of Health and Safety
- Computer literate
Personal Qualities & Behaviours
- Acts in a respectful way, leads the team from the front, taking on the views of the team. Creates respectful environments that support the wider wellbeing of the team.
- Puts the customer at the heart of every process. Supports and drives processes that deliver and reward excellent customer experience and actively researches customers needs and trends
- Is colleague focussed and uses a structured approach to ensure team and individual development. Creates an environment that is inclusive and engenders trust whilst actively seeking team ideas and involvement
- Embraces change and communicates said change effectively. Actively seeks challenging opportunities for themselves and others whilst creating open cultures that speak up and allow challenge
- Is resourceful and keeps up to date with industry changes acting upon them. Creates environments that allows new ideas to progress, utilising all departments and resources
- Energises by creating a positive can do environment. Uses initiative to celebrate success of individuals and teams. Is seen as a role model by their peers
- Shows determination in ensuring the team delivers to standard taking responsibility for departmental performance. Supports the department through challenges. Understands and communicates the broader company goals and objectives ensuring department alignment
- Inspires the department through great communication, leads by example and supports other departments where needed, working alongside peer group
- Ensures clear process to ensure all colleagues are included in relevant decision making. Directs the department activity and supports other departments in an inclusive fashion
The Benefits
In return for your contribution to the team’s performance, we offer a competitive base salary plus
all these extra benefits:
- *Employee discount scheme for Bensons products
- *Medicash – cashback options for Health and wellbeing services (dental, optical, virtual GP, other healthcare services and more)
- *Unum Income Protection – for peace of mind if you’re off work long term due to illness
- *Pension scheme – provided by Legal & General
- *Discounted Gym membership
- *Cycle to Work scheme
- *Annual leave buy & sell scheme – you can top up your holiday entitlement or sell unused days to suit you
- *Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
- Access to Retail Trust services (guidance and support on retail issues, mental health, wellbeing & financial topics)
- Learning and development programmes to gain new knowledge and skills
- Career progression – access to internal opportunities to build your career within Bensons for Beds
- *Long service awards and ‘Love to Shop’ voucher rewards to spend as you like
(*qualifying periods and terms apply)
About Bensons for Beds
We’re Bensons for Beds! We put Sleep Wellness™ at the heart of everything we do. With 100 years of experience in sourcing and manufacturing the best quality beds, frames and mattresses, at Bensons we understand how to design the perfect, tailored sleep experience. We have 170+ locations and employ c 1800 colleagues. Under new ownership of Alteri Investors we have an ambitious 3 year plan to grow the business further and achieve our mission of being the market leading bed retailer with a strong omnichannel presence.
If you’re looking for a great Warehouse role, we would love to have a chat….
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract – Full Time
Salary: £34,650pa + Benefits
