Warehouse Team Manager
Job Title: Warehouse Team Manager
Function: Distribution
Contract: Full Time, Permanent 4 on 4 off Days and Nights rotating
Location: Bristol
Are you a Warehouse Team Manager at the top of your game and looking for a new challenge?
We have an opportunity for a Warehouse Team Manager to join our Bristol Depot. With strong commitment to quality and innovation, Warburtons has been a staple in British households for generations – this is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dedicated team and contribute to the success of a beloved brand!
Working with our Distribution site lead, Warehouse, and Distribution Teams at our Bristol site you’ll be an important part of our work family. Ensuring our quality products are ready to be delivered to our customers on time and in full, with your eye always on quality.
Here at Bristol, the team are dedicated to exceeding customer expectations, and we are proud to be keeping our nations eggs in soldiers!
Essential Ingredients
• Experience of leading, mentoring and developing a team, ensuring they are motivated, trained and with the company goals
• Transport knowledge would be advantageous
• Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams, including manufacturing, in order to maintain the highest quality and seamless supply chain operations
• Good working knowledge of SAP
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the warehouse team
The Recipe
As the Warehouse Team Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our Bristol warehouse. You will lead a team of warehouse/Primary team members, overseeing their activities, setting performance goals and driving a culture of excellence. Your strategic thinking and operational expertise will help us maintain the highest standards in ensuring the freshest products are delivered on time and in full to our customers.
As ‘Britain’s Best Loved Food Brand’ we have been baking bread since 1876. Today, we are proudly a fifth-generation family company supplying 18,000 retail customers from 12 bakeries and 16 depots, producing a range of over 70 products including gluten and wheat free. Our family of 5,000 colleagues throughout the UK, have recognised us as a Sunday Times Top 30 Best Big Companies to work for.
Family and values are what makes us different, and we are a proud bunch, join us and you too could be proud to be Warburtons.
About Us
Our Bristol Distribution depot is located at Severn Beach, near Bristol. You’ll find us a 15-minute drive from the M5 and 10 minutes from Severn bridge if you’re heading over the bridge from Wales (Toll Free)!
We have 3 state of the art manufacturing plants and Bristol Bakery is the proud home to one of our latest innovations, The Bagel! Bristol manufacture and distribute over 12 different types of bakery products producing over 160,000 units of freshly baked products to delight families across the UK.
Bristol is also a dedicated Driver Training Centre and Distribution hub!
Extra Dough
At last, and by no means least, you will want to know what your bread is worth.
• A slice of the annual profits
• Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra week’s annual leave
• Award winning pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Products you'll love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.
