Warehouse Shift Manager (E-Commerce)

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A large blue-chip organisation, with large growth prospects
Strong people management and engagement skills required...

About Our Client

The successful Warehouse Shift Manager (E-Commerce) will be joining a very successful blue-chip business who have just undergone a merger with another large mutli-national business. As a result, my client's e-commerce function has now doubled in size and thus requires a strong leader to join their team! My client's full focus is on empowering a team to achieve full productivity and therefore you will need to fulfil these ethics to be successful.

Job Description

As a Warehouse Shift Manager (E-Commerce) you will manage a team of around 80+ colleagues on a daily basis, whilst reporting into the E-Commerce Warehouse Manager. Your team will look to you for engagement and support across an experience fast-paced e-commerce based operation.

Active day-to-day management of an E-Commerce based team which involves goods in, picking, replenishment and despatch.
Leadership of both direct and indirect reports, which includes FLM's, Team Leaders and Warehouse Operatives.
Workload planning, volume forecasting and peak planning is essentially controlled.
Providing effective leadership within health & safety and promoting only the highest standards at all times.
Ensuring that colleague's skills are actively enhanced at every opportunity, such as further training and development.
Daily management such as RTW, holiday management, 1-2-1's, PDR's, appraisals.
Management and accuracy checks of all stock management via a WMS system.

The Successful Applicant

The ideal candidate will be reporting directly into the E-Commerce Warehouse Manager and will work across Monday to Friday and 0800-1800. The working environment will be unionised and you will ideally have the following skills and attributes:

Strong experience and examples of success within continuous improvement - including kaizen and 5S methods
Experience of performance management across large numbers of employees.
A positive mentality towards health and safety excellence.
Proven examples of exceeding KPI targets and motivating a team.
Passed experience of an automated warehouse environment - ideally WMS, WCS or Red Prairie
Easily commutable within the wider Derbyshire area.
Over 4+ years in the Logistics Distribution and Supply Chain sector.