Job Title: Driver Operations Manager
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Shift: Monday – Friday 37.5 Hours
Location: Wednesbury
Salary: Up to £50’000 per year
Are you a Driver Operations Manager or a Transport Manager at the top of your game? Working alongside the Distribution Site Lead as part of the Management team you will engage and motivate a skilled team of Team Managers, manage budgets and define and implement driver operations strategy.
Here at Wednesbury, we’re leading the way for growth and innovation in the heart of the country.
Essential Ingredients
1. Working knowledge and experience of distribution management
2. Good working knowledge of SAP, specifically ERP module
3. Prior use of Distribution systems, processes & Operator Licence/Tachograph/ WTD regulations
4. Transport Management CPC
The Recipe
We’re going on a journey of innovation and continuous improvement, and you’ll drive, through the team, safe, efficient and timely delivery of products out to our customers and sites across the country. We work as part of a family and teamwork is very important to us, managing a team of Driver Operations Team Managers that oversee around 70 Class 2 Drivers across 40 routes and 40 Class 1 Primary Drivers.
The role will work with the Warehouse and Distribution management teams on a daily basis, co-ordinating collections and deliveries of our products into our customers, as well as from third party and into our other depots and sites across the UK and resource is allocated in the right areas and monitor and investigate deliveries are made on time and in full, while maintaining customer service standards.
With your previous experience, you will identify and drive a culture of continuous improvement, with your eye on the budget and be able to manage and maintain a fleet of vehicles in accordance with Company policy, health & safety and statutory and legal requirements.
Most importantly, people are our most precious ingredient, team development and passion comes from you!
About Us
Our Wednesbury Bakery and Distribution depot is in the heart of the Black Country with our people who are the Heart of The Black Country. We opened our doors almost 25 years ago and are incredibly proud of our loyal and committed team. Today we have nearly 400 colleagues onsite, ensuring our freshly baked products are delivered to families across the UK daily!
We bake and distribute over 2 million loaves of bread each week and are committed to our high standards of Health, Safety and sustainability and have our own mini power generating plant that provides both combined heat and power to the bakery. Wednesbury is the Home of the Tiger Bloomer.
Join us and you’ll have free onsite parking, hot food served in the canteen, freshly baked products stocked in the kitchen for you to enjoy and a great bunch of people to work with. You’ll find us just off J9 M6 and M5/M6 interchange junction.
As ‘the UK’s No. 1 Bakery Brand’ we have been baking bread since 1876. Today, we are proudly a sixth-generation family business, supplying over 18,000 retail customers from 11 bakeries and 16 depots, producing a range of over 70 products, including gluten and wheat free.
We are striving to be a net zero business by 2050 and believe that we must minimise our impact on the environment, whilst making a positive impact on the society we are a part of.
Extra Dough
You’ll want to know what your bread is worth:
5. Base Salary up to £50’000.00
6. A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
7. Family time is important to us and we know it will be to you, so you will have 5 weeks holiday and bank hols. Plus, the opportunity to purchase up to an extra week annual leave
8. Private medical insurance, health screening and life assurance
9. Award winning pension scheme with company contributions
10. Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
11. Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service