Leading Hand - Decant PM Lutterworth, England
Job description
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
The successful candidate will be responsible for leading a team of warehouse operatives, ensuring all KPI’s and productivity levels are maintained in line with company targets, ensuring all health and safety regulations are adhered to, along with:
- Experience in leading and motivating staff.
- Being an excellent communicator and motivator with the ability to delegate and empower teams to achieve.
- Have the ability to lead a team to achieve KPI’s and objectives and ensure the site operates effectively and efficiently.
- Have the ability to co-ordinate work and allocate resources amongst the team.
- Experience in Warehouse Management Systems would be an advantage.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Being willing to work in all area’s of the warehouse and prioritise as per operational requirements.
- Commitment.
- Be able to cover the Supervisor role when required.
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE
- Experience in a Warehouse environment within a Distribution background.
- Good organisational skills.
- Ability to co-ordinate works and allocates resources amongst team.
- Commitment – sees the job through to completion.
SKILLS/ ABILITIES
- Team Leader skills, leading and motivating staff.
- An awareness of Health and Safety in the warehouse.
WHAT DO WE DO?
VOW is one of the UK and Ireland’s leading wholesalers of business products with its headquarters in Sheffield, England. The company distributes over 20,000 products from its three automated distribution centres in England and Ireland to over 3000 resellers and customers.
The major product categories distributed by VOW include general office supplies, paper and computer consumables, cleaning, catering, janitorial, health and safety, PPE, premises management, office furniture and a variety of technology and machines.
VOW offers a wide range of business services including marketing initiatives, e-commerce solutions, business development programmes and logistics options, all which help to grow VOW’s Resellers’ businesses.
VOW is proud to work with all the major dealer groups in the UK and Ireland including an exclusive relationship with Office Friendly and strong relationships with Integra, Nemo, Challenge, Office Club, and the CB Group.
OUR BENEFITS
We offer a competitive range of benefits, including free parking (subject to site availability), contributory pension plan, Employee Assistance Programme, retailer and lifestyle perks and discounts, paid charity support day, staff discounts, an opt-in medical plan and eyecare assistance. Our employees hard work can be rewarded through the evo Honours reward programme and long service recognition schemes. We support and encourage our employees training and development with access to a e-learning platform covering a wide range of topics and the opportunity to complete a fully funded Apprenticeship or Adult Learning courses (terms apply).
We also have a generous holiday package and a holiday purchasing scheme. All our employees either get their Birthday off every year or a voucher in their birthday month, and in most areas of the business we close between Christmas and New Year!
DIVERSITY AND ANTI-DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT
It is our people that make us successful and so we are committed to making evo an inclusive workplace.
We encourage a diverse culture, in which we value you for being you, and the excellent contributions you make to business, no matter your age, gender, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, race, nationality or religion. evo expect their employees to respect one another and treat their colleagues, and others that they come into contact with, as they would wish to be treated themselves.
evo are proud to be a ‘Disability Confident’ accredited employer. We have a strong CSR and ESG ethos which is reflected in our Company values and the work we do.
