Salary starting from £37,155, 10% bonus potential, 25 days annual leave, and a generous pension scheme.
Job Type: Full time, Permanent
Location: Gatwick Mail Centre
Position: Work Area Manager
Shift Pattern:
Tuesday to Saturday, 06:00 - 14:12
What does the role involve?
As a Work Area Manager, you will be responsible for managing operations in a specified area. Leading a dedicated team of 26 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. 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. You will have line management responsibility, managing your team’s sick absence, attendance, training, and development, and will be involved in our programme of continuous improvement.
What skills and experience are we looking for?
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:
1. Leadership Focus: Ensures the basics are right, takes a 'one company' approach, creates positive energy, implements strategy, and takes account of relevant issues.
2. People Focus: Understands the value of diversity & inclusion, uses delegation, coaching, empowerment, and feedback, identifies and develops talent.
3. Resilience Focus: Is approachable, provides reassurance to others, and is positive and realistic even under pressure.
4. Achievement Focus: Ensures 'best day every day' by implementing standards of excellence and builds confident teams using a coaching style.
5. Improvement Focus: Implements transformation, reduces costs, and identifies improvements to ways of working across areas of the business.
6. Customer Centric Focus: Implements a customer-first culture and introduces ways to improve the customer experience.
Benefits:
* Family Friendly Support: Enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave, and shared parental leave.
* Discounts and Offers: More than 800 offers to help you save on groceries, days out, holidays, and household bills.
* Supportive and Generous Sick Pay.
* Your Wellbeing: 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life.
Application Process:
If you are interested in applying, please complete your application online and submit your current CV.
Assessment:
The assessment will enable you to showcase your suitability for management positions within Royal Mail through a capability-based interview and a short management scenario exercise provided on the day.
Closing Date: Monday 24th Feb 2025. Please note this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
Note: If you are NOT a passport holder of the country for the vacancy, you might need a work permit.
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