Warehouse & Logistics Manager

Our prestigious Packaging Client requires to appoint an experienced Warehouse and Logistics Manager for their site in Greater Manchester.

The role will report to the Operations Director and will have 6 Immediate Reportees: Warehouse Coordinator, 3 Warehouse Team Leaders, Transport Contract Manager, Pallet Contractor.

The main purpose of the role is to manage the warehousing and logistics functions to ensure excellent service is provided to customers within budgeted costs.

Main Duties:

To ensure the Warehousing and Despatch/Transport functions are co-ordinated to meet the joint needs of the customer and the plant.
To ensure stockholding is well managed, both in terms of warehousing and stock control.
To manage and control the transport contractor to ensure best service to customers is maintained within budget.
To manage and control the Pallet Contractor to ensure best service to both the plant and customers is maintained within budget
To develop robust procedures and systems

Dimensions:

Responsible for ensuring Product is effectively delivered to customers.

Key Results Areas include:

Warehousing
Stock control
Transport
Pallets

Key Performance Indicators include:

OTIF
Stock levels (finished goods and raw materials)
Off-site warehouse costs
Transport costs
Pallet costs

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

5 years management experience in similar role
Communication and presentations skills.
Commercial awareness
Specific Logistics Industry knowledge
Intelligent Problem Solver
IT skills.

***Please supply CV in word rather than PDF***

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.