Warehouse Manager

Warehouse Manager
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
£85,000 per annum
Monday to Friday
8:30am - 5pm

The Company

Our client is a logistics and transportation company.
They specialise in providing end to end third-party logistics, storage and fulfilment solutions that are facilitated by industry-leading technology and people that care. Using their expertise and detailed knowledge, they strive to be efficient, progressive and dynamic.
Propelled by a passion for performance, our client successfully delivers a wide range of outdoor furniture and equipment to customers throughout the country, ensuring items arrive in perfect condition every time.
For them, it doesn’t stop there as their company vision is to be the best outdoor living retailer, with an emphasis on lifestyle, experience and innovation. These principles have led to rapid growth and they’re searching for the very best to take them one step further. Our client cares about their products, customers and most importantly, you.
So, if you’re looking to join a company that’s built on hard work and integrity, they’re currently looking for an experienced Warehouse Manager to join their excellent team.


The Benefits
- Salary of £85,000 per annum
- Generous holiday allowance
- Free parking (please note that due to the warehouse location you would need your own transportation)
- Pension
- Company Events
- Learning, training and ongoing development
- 21 days’ holiday pro rata plus Bank Holidays


If you’re driven and have the desire to make a difference, this is a fantastic opportunity to share your skills and expertise with our client’s fast-growing organisation. You’ll need experience in developing and delivering engaging training content in a warehousing and operations environment where no two days are the same.


As a logistics company, they know time is money and that’s why your experience is invaluable to them. As you bring their training to the cutting-edge, you’ll be rewarded by a company culture that’s built on the foundations of people, success, and innovation.
So, if you share our client’s values, have warehouse leadership experience and a passion for mentoring, they want to hear from you!


Your Role

As a Warehouse Manager, you will:
- Lead and run the day-to-day operations, team and performance of our client’s warehouse
- Demonstrate operational excellence by meeting operational KPI targets
- Resource planning to maximise efficiency and ensure operational success
- Lead the Good In’s/Goods Out and warehouse staff, ensuring they remain organised and motivated
- Manage inbound deliveries, ranging from pallets to shipping containers
- Organise the dispatch of goods, trade orders being dispatched on pallets or in our client’s vehicles and retail orders being dispatched by couriers, 2-man and pallet network
- Liaise with suppliers and transport companies
- Monitor stock and order packaging supplies
- Review and revise health and safety policies to ensure they're in alignment with changes to procedures
- Ensure the correct policies, procedures and protocols are in place to ensure high standards
- Manage the budget for the site and lead your teams to deliver against the plan whilst regularly reporting performance back to the Executive Team
- Help with customer service to ensure customer satisfaction
- Take charge of the overall maintenance and upkeep of the warehouse
- Lead by example


About You
To be considered as a Warehouse Manager, you will need:
- Previous warehouse management experience
- To be professional, confident, friendly and engaging
- The ability to build good working relationships with colleagues
- Good listening skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- The ability to manage time effectively
- The ability to multitask
- The ability to work as part of a team
- The ability to use own initiative
- To be committed to learning about our client’s product range


Please note, this role will involve the lifting and moving of items, some of which will be large or heavy.
Other organisations may call this role Warehouse Operative, Procurement Manager, Inventory Manager, Distribution Centre Manager, Fulfilment Centre Manager, Logistics Manager, or Operations Manager.
Webrecruit and our clients are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.


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