Shift Manager / Area Manager - #1717481

As we continue to grow at ID Logistics, were looking for two Shift Managers / Area Managers to help drive our success at our new site in Leeds. We need someone whos ready to take charge, lead by example, and support their team while also fostering their own personal growth. If you have a passion for leadership and are eager to apply your skills to help us achieve our ambitious goals, wed love to hear from you!

About You

You will share our passion for the fast-paced environment of Warehousing and logistics as well as having a passion for leading, supporting and coaching your team to see the amazing results that can be achieved. You will provide strong leadership across the warehouse operation to ensure a safe, efficient and first-class service is delivered for our customer. You will focus on landing and embedding the site and its team along with centrally driven continuous improvement initiatives. As you would expect there will be site KPI performances metrics for you and your team to work towards and deliver in order to meet budgetary requirements and achieve our service level agreements with our customer.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads effective people management process adherence, and continuously develops the team through on-going coaching and feedback
• Lead the team, carrying out daily reviews of workload activity, stock volume and demand within your shift/team.
• Deliver effective and meaningful shift briefs and regular briefs to your teams, ensuring clear communication channels of relevant and key information.
• Manage and develop the team to deliver key outputs
• Actively champion wellbeing within the team
• Engage and inspire colleagues, measured through employee surveys
• Identifies and nurtures talent within the team to drive a succession pipeline for the future
• Accountable to recruiting to agreed headcount, through both permanent and temporary resource where appropriate to react to labour turnover.
• Create a customer centric culture across the operation by engaging and inspiring their team.
• Respond to customer demands, and in-day fluctuation in volume, leading the team to deliver in a changing environment
• Build strong working relationships with key stakeholders and customer, ensuring a professional flow of information is in play
• Accountable for stock inventory and stock maintenance, with follow up actions if required
• Delivers a consistent performance against the sites KPIs
• Operates within legislation, policy and process in all matters relating to safety, health and environment and ensures risks are minimised
• Actively support business transformation, implementing change at pace
• Support in the overall planning for peak activity within the specific area of the operation
• Work with colleagues in Shift Manager positions to ensure there is adequate cover for the operation
• Be prepared, if necessary to step up to cover peers or line manager for any periods of absence
  
  

Your Skills & Experience

• Ideally you will have at least 2 years experience in a Leadership position
• Ideally you will have previous experience of leading other managers although this is not essential
• Previous experience working within a warehouse / logistics operation
• Proven experience working to drive performance and thrive in a performance and results orientated environment
• Be able to demonstrate how you have a people first leadership style, always working to engage and motivate your team to get the maximum output and performance
• Be agile, able to respond to changes and supporting new initiatives
• You will be a strong communicator, able to work with and influence where necessary your colleagues, piers, managers and other key stakeholders
• You are a key driver and champion of change and continuous improvement.
  
  

About Us

ID Logistics is an international contract logistics group with a presence in 18 countries,representing more than 8.0 million square meters of warehousing facilities in Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, with 38,000 employees. With a client portfolio balanced between retail, industry, detail picking, healthcare and e-commerce sectors, ID Logistics is characterised by offers involving a high level of technology.

We have been growing for more than 20 years, with an ethos of everyone being united and where innovation is constant. We have a demanding job to do, and we must move fast while being rigorous and precise.

We launched our UK business in June 2023, our first unit growing and relocating to accommodate the significant business growth. We are now getting ready to launch our 2nd site in Leeds. This really is an exciting time to join the UK team, to support creating its solid foundations for a promising future.

Operational excellence is one of the founding values of ID Logistics and each employee contributes to it: all your ideas, we will listen to them, and all your past experiences will enrich us.

This is a full-time on-site position based from Leeds. The role will be based on one of two shifts. Either Mornings 6am to 2pm or Afternoons 2pm to 10pm.

Please note we may review and progress applications ahead of the closing date.

We are not looking for agency support currently.