General Manager
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.
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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