Work Area Manager (Night Shift)

Work Area Manager (Night Shift)

Salary starting from £37,528 plus up to £906.12 per month shift allowance, 10% bonus potential, 25 days annual leave and generous pension.

Full time Permanent. Dorset Mail Centre, Nuffield Ind Est, Poole, BH17 0AA.

As a Work Area Manager, you will work in a busy Dorset Mail Centre and be responsible for managing operations in a specified area.

What does the role involve?

Leading a dedicated team of 20 full and part time employees, you will hold regular one-to-one and team meetings and review the area's performance and plans on a daily basis. Championing health and safety initiatives, increasing efficiency, and identifying areas of improvement will be essential to your role.

Supporting the Shift Manager, you will provide a high quality of service to our customers and ensure all operational targets are met. You will have line management responsibility and the role will involve managing your team's sick absence, attendance, training and development and will get involved in our programme of continuous improvement.

What skills and experience are we looking for?

As this is an extremely interesting and varied role, we are looking for candidates who are flexible, can work under pressure and possess excellent leadership and communication skills. As a leader within the business, you must demonstrate evidence on your CV of the following:

• Leadership Focus: Ensures the basics are right, takes a 'one company' approach, creates positive energy, implements strategy, takes account of relevant issues. Uses platforms to recognise superstars, appeals to both the heart and the brain when communicating.
• People Focus: Understands the value of diversity & inclusion, uses delegation, coaching, empowerment and feedback, identifies and develops talent, collaborates, takes time to know and understand others' needs and perspectives, ensures a supportive environment where achievements are recognised.
• Resilience Focus: Is approachable, provides reassurance to others, agile in adapting to new challenges, communicates regularly and informally, deals with ambiguity, is positive and realistic even under pressure.
• Achievement Focus: Ensures 'best day every day' by implementing standards of excellence, asks questions of others, shares learning, provides guidance. Builds confident teams using a coaching style and ensures others are held accountable. Uses resources to ensure delivery. Keeps promises. Is trusted by teams and colleagues.
• Improvement Focus: Implements transformation, reduces costs and ensures value for money, embraces innovative work practices, makes rational and informed decisions, identifies improvements to ways of working across areas of the business, implements new processes and services to meet changing customer needs.
• Customer Centric Focus: Implements a customer‑first culture, introduces ways to improve the customer experience, puts the customer at the heart of decision making, monitors goals for customer service, promotes investment and change which improves the end‑to‑end customer experience.

Shift pattern

Monday to Friday, 22:33 - 6:45. Flexibility will be required to meet the needs of the unit.

Closing Date

Thursday 14th May 2026. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

Job reference number 338448

We welcome applications from all individuals and are committed to inclusion. We especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

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