Team Leader - Warehouse Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Job description
About The Role
Did you know that Alliance Healthcare delivers to over 17,000 pharmacies, doctors, hospitals and health centres twice a day from across the UK?
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated team worker looking for the next step or a change in your career? Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role? If so we might have just what you are looking for!
About The Role
As a team leader in our warehouse you will be the first point of contact for team members in the achievement of daily targets, set by the management team, with a focus on guiding and developing your team.
Some of the roles you could be doing include:
- Driving the daily performance of warehouse operatives to achieve or exceed budgeted productivity and quality targets.
- Implement the daily staffing plan, ensuring optimum output at all times.
- Deliver training on operational processes including Good Distribution Practice (GDP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Conducting team briefings, training and 121s along with return to work interviews for initial absences
- Carry out duties in the warehouse such as picking, packing.
By becoming a Warehouse team leader, you will be responsible for leading a team in processing customer orders accurately and efficiently, assuring the in-time delivery of possible life-saving products.
Shift Pattern – We are recruiting team leaders to work 14:00 to 22:00 on a shift pattern that is 5 out of 7
Rates of Pay – We offer pay of £22,776 PA made up of basic pay (£2.11) additional shift allowances rates. Additional overtime is available.
About You
- Previous experience in a warehouse environment including knowledge of Warehouse and Distribution Processes
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to use your own initiative
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Excellent time management
- Previous experience of leading a small team would be highly desirable.
Due to the nature of the position, you will need to be capable of standing and walking for long periods of time as well as bending and lifting in line with Health and Safety Regulations.
We can offer a good quality working environment for our team as well as varied benefits targeted to your wellbeing both within and outside work:
- Employee assistance programme with legal and financial advisors as well as mental health counselling.
- Perks at Work with discounts in various retailers as Currys PC World, Samsung, John Lewis and more
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Contributory Pension Scheme after 3-month service
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Service Based Holidays
- Career Development and internal progression opportunities inlccuding the possibility of standing in for your line manager in their absence.
About The Company
Alliance Healthcare is a leading distributor and wholesaler of pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare products and part of the backbone of the NHS.
Our service centres play a pivotal role in the success of our business and are responsible for ensuring that we deliver potentially life-saving medicines to an extensive network of local customers on a twice daily basis
Everything we do will impact the end user, the patient. It is our responsibility to offer reliable service that ensures that our customers receive the product needed, where and when they need it.
Our diversity and inclusion vision is to create a culture where we value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to powering greater collaboration and innovation, inspiring us to help people across the UK lead healthier and happier lives.
