Job Title: Warehouse Team Manager
Function: Distribution
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Location: Basingstoke
Are you a Warehouse Team Manager at the top of your game and looking for a new challenge?
Working with our Depot Manager, Warehouse, and Distribution Teams at our Basingstoke 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.
We are dedicated to the investment in our search for the right people to support us to achieve our vision of being Britain's best food business.
Here at Basingstoke, the team are dedicated to exceeding customer expectations, and we are proud to be keeping our nations egg’s in soldiers!
Essential Ingredients
1. Previous experience of operating at a management level within a distribution company (advantageous)
2. Previous experience as a Team Manager, or Key Operative with experience in managing teams, coaching and mentoring
3. Prior use of Distribution systems, processes & Operator Licence/Tachograph/ WTD regulations.
4. Good working knowledge of Health, Safety and Environment and Food Safety Legislation / BRC standards.
5. Strong communication skills, articulate and able to develop effective, long-term relationships with key stakeholders and peers.
6. Analytical and organised in approach with good problem-solving skills.
The Recipe
As the Warehouse Team Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our Basingstoke warehouse. You will lead a team of warehouse 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 4,500 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
Basingstoke Distribution Depot is proud of our One Team culture and the role we play in distributing our freshly baked products to our customers. Basingstoke has around 80 colleagues working across distribution and warehousing from a wide range of nationalities, who support in the delivery of over one million items per week. Our drivers pick and deliver to West London from Watford to Croydon, Including Central London as far as Battersea, Fulham, and Bayswater.
Extra Dough
At last and by no means least, you will want to know what your bread is worth.
7. A slice of the annual profits
8. 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 weeks annual leave
9. Award winning pension scheme
10. Life assurance
11. Products you'll love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
12. Continued investment in your personal development
13. Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!