General Manager Automotive Logistics

hireful; Appleby Magna; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000

Job description

Location: DE12 8AA – Appleby Magna
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Salary: Up to £85,000 plus car allowance
Benefits: 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

About the Job

Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You’ll have an important part to play in automotive success that spans nearly 50 years. Unipart secured the contract to run the new, custom-built Jaguar Land Rover Global Parts Logistics Centre at Appleby Magna in Leicestershire, at the new Mercia Park campus, one of the largest UK warehouse developments for a single customer.

As General Manager you will deliver world-class standards in cost, quality, and delivery and you will focus on activity in support of our strategic growth and development. You will be fully accountable for the performance and management of warehouse operations and will have the opportunity to define, plan, manage, and sustain organisation and operational change and transformation projects that will truly make a difference.

General Manager Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for compliance with health and safety regulations and quality standards
2. Take the lead driving and embedding sustainability actions on your site(s) in support of our commitment to become carbon neutral by 2030, and our pledge to reach 'carbon net zero' by 2050 or sooner
3. Ensure ‘The Unipart Way’ is implemented and embedded across the site and use the principles to ensure operational excellence
4. Drive the adoption and use of digital applications and automated solutions to support and embed our Warehouse of the Future vision
5. Embed a culture of employee engagement across the site; where the site is considered to be exemplary
6. Manage Senior Operations Managers - and their direct reports
7. Ensure that resource skills and levels are consistent with medium and long-term business plans
8. Overall accountability for operational performance to Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators
9. It will be your responsibility to ensure that the operating budget is set and managed within targets
10. Overall accountability for compliance with legal and ethical people management practice
11. Responsible for effective two-way communication processes with team, customer, and suppliers

About You:

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

1. Experience at operating at a senior level in a 3PL environment
2. Proven ability to manage a team to deliver the required standards and performance
3. Solid experience in defining, planning, managing and sustaining both organisation and operational change and transformation projects
4. Resilience in ability to work under pressure in a challenging and constantly changing environment, evidenced by previous experience in a fast changing, volume driven working and customer environment
5. Commercial acumen to understand, challenge, and manage financial decision making
6. Clear leadership skills, to inspire with energy and passion within and across Senior Leaders and their teams
7. Proven effective relationships with client / customer
8. Flexibility and ability to deal with change

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies

You may also have the experience in the following: General Manager, Warehouse Manager, Senior Operations Manager, Operations Director, Operations Manager, General Manager, Operations Management, Logistics, Distribution, Supply Chain, etc

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