Work Area Manager
Salary starting at £38,303 plus £862.48 per month night shift allowance, 10% bonus potential, 25 days annual leave and defined contribution pension scheme.
Full time, Permanent.
Shift pattern: Monday - Friday 22:00pm / 23:00pm to 06:00am/ 07:00am. A degree of flexibility is required to meet operational requirements.
Location: Greenford Mail Centre, Green Park Way, Greenford, UB6 0GG.
As a Work Area Manager, you will work in a busy mail centre and be responsible for managing operations in a specified area.
The role
Leading a dedicated team of up to 15 full and part time employees, you will hold regular one to one and team meetings and review the area’s performance and plans on a daily basis. You'll have line management responsibility for managing your team’s sick absence, attendance, and training, while engaging with the team to drive performance.
Championing health and safety initiatives, increasing efficiency, and identifying areas of improvement will be essential to your role. Supporting the Shift Manager, you will provide a high quality of service to our customers and ensure all operational targets are met.
Skills and experience
As this is an extremely interesting and varied role, we are looking for candidates who are flexible, can work under pressure, and possess excellent leadership and communication skills. As a leader within the business, you must demonstrate evidence on your CV of the following:
* Managing and leading a large team to maximise performance.
* People skills - good communication skills, able to engage and motivate team members to work to high standards.
* Target driven with a track record of improving performance and achieving KPIs.
* Experience of introducing change/improvements and successfully leading people through change.
* Data analysis and problem solving – ability to use data to identify trends in performance and then develop solutions/make improvements.
* Relationships – able to build effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders to achieve business benefits. Experience from a logistics/parcel distribution background would be beneficial.
About Us
At Royal Mail we connect companies, customers and communities across the country, delivering a ‘one-price-goes-anywhere’, universal postal service to more than 30 million addresses. As one of the UK’s leading companies, we are focused on being recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe.
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.
Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind.
We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.
We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
Closing Date: Monday 7th October 2024. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached. Interviews expected: Week Commencing 28th October 2024.
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