General Manager

General Manager

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Fast paced, highly pressurised food & drinks distribution centre based in Dagenham.

Looking for an experienced General Manager to drive performance and productivity with a strong focus on building a culture of continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Providing leadership, motivation and career development to the site management team, ensuring they achieve excellence day-to-day.
• Proactive in driving a continuous improvement culture; seeking out and driving improvement initiatives to ensure growth is managed successfully whilst maintaining challenging targets.
• Developing productive and effective relationships with key customer stakeholders to deliver the customer’s growth and longer-term plans.
• Identifying new opportunities within existing site operations through process optimisation, layout redesigns and systems implementations.
• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement to improve both colleague and customer satisfaction.
• Responsible for achieving the overall resource plan that meets current and future business needs of the company.
• Working with site leadership teams to develop improvement schemes within each department – maintaining optimum use of resources at all times.
• Seeking initiatives that ensure the contract supports the customer’s business plan, supply chain strategy and contract logistics strategy.

Qualifications

• Logistics distribution and supply chain background.
• Minimum 5+ years 3PL contract logistics experience at General Manager or Site Manager level.
• Previous contract logistics experience within Food, Drinks, Wholesale or FMCG is essential.
• Experience managing budgets up to £10m pa.
• Confidence and ability to build rapport, develop relationships with internal and external customers.
• Recognition of opportunities and synergies to enhance customer relationship and maintain and develop business growth opportunities.
• Energy, determination and commitment to operate in an environment where regular customer contact and scrutiny is the norm and the highest level of customer service is non-negotiable.
• Managed in excess of 150+ employees indirectly.
• Demonstrate skills in delivering continuous improvement initiatives using lean processes.
• IOSH and NEBOSH qualifications.
• Experience of Six Sigma or Prince2 methodologies would be advantageous.
• Live within a commutable distance to Dagenham. xwzovoh

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Distribution

EA First Ltd are acting as an Employment Agency for this permanent vacancy.

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