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Team Leader - Nights, Pedigree Wholesale Limited

Benefits and Pay

· Salary: £25,440 – £28,620 + 10% Shift Premium

· Full time permanent role (37.5 hours) Sunday – Thursday 22:00 – 06:00 + paid overtime

· Training & Development available

· Workplace Wellbeing Initiative

· Profit Related Pay based on company profits

· Competitive Holidays allowance

· Remote and flexible working available on specific roles

· Life Insurance after 3 months service

· Pension Scheme after 2 months service

· Instant access to a free, 24/7, confidential GP service for all Pedigree colleagues and their family

· Long service rewards

· Company sick pay scheme

· Staff discount on Pet Products from 3 months service

· On site staff car parking with electric charging points

Pedigree Wholesale is the UK's second largest Pet Specialist Wholesaler. Being operationally efficient and effective is central to our proposition. Our aim is to be the “Wholesaler of choice for suppliers, customers with the best team in the pet industry”.

Pedigree continues to grow and aspires to become a £100M wholesaler within 5 years. The overall business strategy for 2023 is to “Build now for 2025+”.

In terms what we do, we provide our independents and national account customers with a next day delivery service, picked from our own warehouses (6) and delivered primary on our own fleet. This drives customer loyalty and ensures the long-term success of the business and with over 200 suppliers and 9,000 products servicing over 2000 customers this is a complicated undertaking that requires careful and detailed planning supported by excellent team management and strict adherence to processes and rules.

The Role

This role requires a Team Leader to work alongside the Gamston Night Shift Manager to assist with the daily and strategic Operation of the warehouse to fulfil all customer demands through all of our delivery streams.

We are looking for a result driven individual, who is curious, tenacious, detail orientated and demonstrates leadership skills. Self-motivated and can build rapport at all levels of the business to give clarity of communication, deliver change and support a culture of right first time.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Shift Manager, responsible for Leading the Warehouse team to ensure all KPI’s and costs are met.

• Utilizing statistical information to manage individual & team performance.

• Responsible for ensuring all Warehouse/System processes are followed correctly at all times.

• In the absence of the Shift Manager, responsible for managing and reporting against all aspects of the Warehouse operation.

• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and added value whilst ensuring that key service levels are not only sustained but improved upon.

• Lead and develop Warehouse Team members to create a highly successful, Productive and engaged team.

• Ensure that all team members demonstrate a proactive approach to Health & Safety within the work place.

• Promote Company values within the Warehouse to create an excellent working environment.

• Pro-active approach to both employee engagement and development.

Nature and Scope

• Utilizing data to ensure specific and agreed KPI’s are met.

• Interpret and communicate all relevant data and or information to ensure the smooth running of the operations.

• Develop an empowering management culture.

• Comfortable working on a tactical or strategic level.

• Ensure that agreed standards are met at all times.

• Coaching & Mentoring management style.

• Uses data to determine results.

• Will act upon and follow up any other reasonable requests as identified by senior management.

Person Specification

• Action oriented with a proven track record of managing performance and Health & Safety.

• Knowledge and experience of materials handling equipment, together with warehouse management systems.

• Identify and participate in continuous improvement initiatives.

• Resilience to succeed in a fast-paced environment.

• Forward-thinking, with a customer centric focus.

• Self-starter and highly motivated with high energy level.

• Strong attention to detail and compliance.

• Creative and resourceful under pressure.

Skills

• Health & Safety.

• Management of costs.

• KPI creation and adherence.

• Motivating and the development of teams.

• Process and People management.

• Planning and IT.

• Communications both Verbal & Written.

Achievement

• Must have good numerical and literacy skills.

• Track record of utilizing data and people management to gain success.

• Experience within a people centric fast paced operation, (preferably in a high volume Wholesale/Retail/Warehouse environment).

Company Overview

Pedigree Wholesale is a market-leading supplier of pet and aquatic products, primarily selling to the UK independent retail sector. The company is 100% family-owned and run, with a strong reputation in the marketplace built on over 50 years of trading.

Employing around 225 people at their Head Office in Nottingham, the business has 6 depots nationally and revenues in excess of c.£65m. The business stocks and sells a broad range of SKUs (c.8,500) split across pet and aquatic and currently distributes to around 2,500 independent retailers nationally.

PEDIGREE CORPORATE VISION & VALUES

Vision

Our passion for pets drives us to offer pet owners the highest quality, best value products through great retailers who care.

Values

Love our customers: Our business is built on customer satisfaction and loyalty. We want our customers to love working with us, value our business relationship and actively recommend us to others.

Do the right thing: We are honest and open in our communication, we respect our employees and customers at all times. Our reputation is built on integrity which we uphold at all cost.

Be your best: We continuously strive to be the best we can. We are open to learning and feel rewarded by doing a great job every day.

Own it: We take personal responsibility for the areas under our control and will act upon every opportunity to improve the customer experience.

Win as a team: We achieve better results and are more agile when we work together towards common goals. We are open and challenging whilst

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £28,000.00-£31,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Financial planning services
• Free flu jabs
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• Wellness programme

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Night shift
• Overtime

Supplemental pay types:

• Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Nottingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Team Leader: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 22/05/2023