Depot Manager

Depot Manager – Materials Handling

Location: Sheffield

My Client is looking for a high-calibre Depot Manager to take full ownership of its Sheffield operation.

This is not a caretaker role. You’ll run the depot as if it’s your own business accountable for people, profit, performance and customer delivery. If you’ve managed a materials handling, plant, or equipment hire depot before, you’ll know exactly what this involves.

The Role

You will have end-to-end responsibility for depot performance, covering service, sales, parts, engineers and customers.

Key responsibilities:

• Full P&L responsibility for the depot
• Leading and developing service, sales, parts and admin teams
• Driving revenue growth, utilisation and margin improvement
• Ensuring service delivery, uptime and SLAs are met
• Managing engineer productivity and depot efficiency
• Owning customer relationships and resolving escalations decisively
• Enforcing H&S, compliance and operational standards
• Recruiting, coaching and retaining high-performing staff
• Reporting on performance and executing regional strategy locally

What We’re Looking For

• Proven Depot Manager / Branch Manager experience
• Background in materials handling, forklifts, plant, powered access or hire
• Strong commercial acumen ,understands numbers, margins and recovery
• Confident leader who holds people to account
• Comfortable making tough decisions and managing pressure
• Customer-focused but commercially firm

The Package

• Competitive basic salary (dependent on experience)
• Bonus linked to depot performance
• Company car
• Pension, holiday and full benefits package
• Clear progression within a growing, ambitious business

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