Warehouse Manager

Are you an experienced Warehouse Manager looking for a new challenge? Perhaps you’re already leading a large warehouse team but looking for that step up in to a Warehouse Manager role? Whatever your circumstances cargo-partner could, be your answer!

For over 40 years, we have served our clients with our Air, Ocean, Road, and Warehousing portfolio and we have enjoyed another very successful year at cargo-partner having strengthened our global position by joining the Nippon Express Group.

In our relatively short time in the UK we have enjoyed remarkable success and as we strengthen our service offering we have recently acquired a 2,000+ sqm warehouse site at our Basildon branch. We are now looking for a multidisciplinary Warehouse Manager that ideally has experience in managing logistics clients and a history of supporting the development of a road distribution product both in the UK and internationally – an understanding of efulfillment would also be advantageous.

This opportunity is most definitely a challenge and will best suit someone that leads by example with a history of evaluating processes and implementing process change. The Warehouse Manager will be focused on maintaining and enforcing high standards and procedures and will lead a team of 7 FTEs as they work closely with our Basildon Branch Manager who oversees the entire operation.

As we invest in our warehouse/overland product across Western Europe now is a great time to help us write our success story here in the UK.

Who are we?

cargo-partner are a global info-logistics provider offering a comprehensive portfolio of air, sea, land transport and warehousing solutions. With nearly 40 years expertise in information technology and supply chain optimization, we design tailor-made services for a wide range of industries to create competitive benefits for our customers all around the world. We are a diverse workforce with over 160 offices in more than 40 countries across the globe.

Responsibilities:

· Responsibility for the management of the warehouse, including people management responsibility for the warehouse employees

· Structuring and organizing work flow efficiency and implementation of logistics processes

· Communicating directly with the clients regarding their current business

· Organizing inventory activities when required

· Operating the Warehouse Management System (LogSpace), where applicable

· Handling dangerous goods, if applicable (transport documents, proper storage of dangerous goods, records of dangerous goods)

· Responsible for the warehouse equipment (forklifts, tools, etc.) checks functionality status, organizing maintenance/service if needed, evaluating if more or less equipment is needed

· Investigating accidents and troubleshooting problems.

· Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by establishing and enforcing standards and procedures and by complying with legal regulations

· Ensuring that warehouse staff complete all necessary training and any subsequent retraining

· Compliance of employees in the warehouse to standards and rules

· Responsible for the on-boarding and training of new team members

· Coaching, mentoring and developing own team members

· Set and evaluate performance targets for each subordinate

· Conducts appraisal interviews with subordinates

What we are looking for:

· An experienced multidisciplinary warehouse manager with experience managing logistics clients and a history of supporting the development of the road distribution product (domestically & internationally)

· A leader who knows what best practice and good looks like

· A motivational manager who likes to empower and encourage staff development

· Someone who takes a pride in their work and is both quality and results focused

· A manager who enjoys the challenge of improvement and is also commercially focused - familiar with customer engagement that assist with developing robust client partnerships and create potential selling opportunities