Job Summary
A leading FMCG food Manufacturer is currently recruiting for a Head of Distribution / Distribution Site Manager to lead an expanding SME Food Manufacturing Warehouse and Distribution facility. This role will be hands on and strategic, requiring proven experience in hands on Stock management / Stock control as well as outstanding leadership skills.
Former experience in a small to medium Food Manufacturer / Food 3PL will be essential.
Reporting into the Owner, this Head of Distribution / Distribution Site Manager will manage the distribution operations comprising warehouse and logistics for wholesale, and the assembly and dispatch of retail across multiple selling platforms. Stock numbers and control.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that the site meets the site financial requirements in relation to budget and forecast (to reflect volume changes).
- Lead the Distribution site to deliver the required service levels to delight our customers.
- Manage site Distribution resources and budgets to enable growth whilst optimizing efficiencies.
- Drive improvements to key KPIs by embedding a continuous improvement culture within the depot.
- Collaborate with Sales colleagues to drive regional profitable growth.
- Collaborate with other Operational Leaders to share and learn from best practices, implement new technologies and ways of working.
- Build accountable, high performing, and engaged teams.
- Cultivate an environment of health and safety, connection, diversity, and inclusion.
- Embrace a growth mindset.
- Demonstrate resilience, credibility, and composure under pressure.
- Act with transparency, integrity and courage.
- Collaborate across boundaries to drive solutions and unlock strategic value.
- IT - ensure that the systems are working in a manner that allows site staff to complete their jobs with open opportunity to improve functionality to benefit the business.
- Oversee a daily meeting at an operational level as and when required to ensure customers demand fulfilment.
- Identify, evaluate and implement cost saving initiatives or changes in the operation for business benefit.
- Maintain British Retail Consortium BRC AA compliance.
- Responsible for stock management and accuracy of inventory levels.
- Effectively manage a varied team against the agreed annual plan by formulation of granular weekly plans.
- Achieve and maintain elevated levels of customer service; responsible for performance to KPIs including deliver on time in full, distribution cost per tonne, stock accuracy and NCRs.
- Ensure efficient use of warehouse space to keep stock at optimum levels, and utilisation of 3PL warehouse during peak periods managed through effective supplier relationships.
- Ensure compliance to all Health, Safety, Hygiene and Environmental policies and audits.
- Build positive relationships internally cross department, and externally with carriers, hauliers and other logistics service providers.
- Deliver continuous improvement to ensure optimisation of performance, cost reduction, service delivery improvements through best practice and standard operating procedures.
- Investigate non-conformance reports and implement necessary corrective actions to increase organisation efficiency and underpin customer service.
Qualifications
You will be a Head of Distribution / Distribution Site Manager used to working within a Food Manufacturing / Food 3PL environment and have strong people management as well as excellent stock management. You will be numerically proficient, with strong IT skills (particularly Excel).
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