Warehouse Shift Manager Harlow, England
Job description
About the opportunity
We are currently recruiting for an exciting opportunity as a Warehouse Shift Manager supporting our Harlow Distribution Centre Team. As a Warehouse Shift Manager, you will Provide leadership, motivation, training and support the development of the team, deliver against customer requirements and operational performance.
This role will be based at our Harlow Distribution Centre in Essex and include managing a team.
Week 1 - Friday, Saturday, Sunday 07:00 – 19:00
Week 2 - Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday 07:00 – 19:00
Works on a two week rotation.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
What you'll be doing...
As Warehouse Night Shift Manager your duties will consist of:
- Effectively lead and manage the shift management team
- Delivery of Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Coordinate, monitor and manage day to day activity ensuring that shifts and resource are correctly assigned to project and task
- Support shifts as required during times of on shift management absence
- Flexible to support network and sites outside core business hours
- Support site leadership team in the delivery of longer-term improvement projects
- Support and facilitate training and upskilling of management
- Problem solve in timely fashion to stop issues escalating
What you'll need...
- Strong distribution experience; stock control and clothing experience preferred
- Shift management or Warehouse management experience
- Financial understanding and acumen
- Able to problem solve and make decisions
- Strong knowledge of Health and Safety Law and requirements
- Dispatcher experience an advantage
- IT literate – MS Office and Dispatcher WMS
What we can offer...
- Competitive salary
- Potential to earn bonus
- Free on-site car park
- Onsite coffee lounge
- Discount Card – 10% discount on most purchases in store including PEP&CO
- Family Friendly Benefits
- Loyal Service Awards
- My Staff Shop – exclusive discount portal
- Apprenticeships & Career Development
- Life Assurance Cover
- Health & Wellbeing – employee assistance programme to support you
- Holiday Allowance – increasing by one day per year (up to 33 days), and ability to purchase additional holiday
- Pension
About us...
You have come to the right place if you want to be part of our success story and have a bright future.
It all started in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990 with our first store. We now have over 900 stores and around 18,500 talented colleagues in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, offering each and every one of our seven million wonderful customers every day amazing value.
We offer thousands of quality products in-store with over 1,000 well-known brands. The majority are just £1, but as a multi price retailer, customers can enjoy competitively priced products from fresh, frozen and ambient food to health and beauty, gardening, clothing, and so much more.
Retail Week nominated us as Value Discounter of the Year in 2019, reflecting our team’s relentless focus on offering customers simplicity and amazing value.
In 2011 Dealz was born. The first stores opened in Blanchardstown and Portlaoise in Ireland. We continue to trade and have expanded rapidly in Ireland, Spain and Poland. Customers enjoy our winning formula of great value top brands and our extensive range, including many local products. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised as one of the Top 100 companies to work for in Ireland in 2022.
Our incredibly popular fashion brand PEP&CO is available in over 500 stores. It offers great value fashion for the whole family. It was nominated in the 2019 Retail Week Awards as Private Label of The Year.
The 2020 acquisition of Fultons, the north of England frozen food retailer, is another key part of our transformation programme, bringing our customers broader ranges and more choice. In 2022, we purchased the online discount retail business, Poundshop.com. The acquisition is another step in the transformation of Poundland and will provide the infrastructure to power a national roll-out of our ecommerce operation.
We have recently opened seven brand new stores, including our large format stores and revamped 55 stores. We are also expanding our fresh range to another 30 stores over the coming months. Our continued success is driven by offering our customers high-quality products at ultra-low prices each and every day.
If this sounds like you and you can make a real difference, apply today!
