Warehouse Shift Manager - Back Shift
£42,500 - £56,500 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 5)
Back Shift (2pm to 10pm), 5 days over 7, every other weekend
Newhouse, ML1 5GH
We're looking for a Warehouse Shift Manager to join us at our Newhouse depot to look after all aspects of the warehouse operation during each back shift (2pm to 10pm). The role comes with an attractive salary and benefits package.
In this role, you'll lead, develop, and engage a multi-skilled team of depot colleagues. We'll also look to you to drive health and safety within the depot and be responsible for controlling costs and delivering our colleague engagement programmes.
What you'll do
- Take ownership of the day-to-day running of the back shift
- Lead, engage, coach and develop a large team of warehouse colleagues and team managers
- Be responsible for maintaining the health and safety of your colleagues
- Make sure that key operational metrics, targets and budgets set for the shift are met, with an emphasis on performance management
- Build positive relationships with a range of internal and external partners, including 3rd party agencies, suppliers, and trade unions
This role would suit people who have
- Experience managing a large team within a complex and a passion for supporting and developing others
- A familiarity with Manhattan and SAP warehouse management systems would be preferred, but isn't essential
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail, with the ability to coordinate the workloads of yourself and your team
- Excellent relationship building skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams
- Strong leadership and communication skills
Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Private healthcare
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
- YuLife app - rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands
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Building a diverse environment
We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing
Please note that we may close applications for this role early
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