Warehouse Manager

Are you a Warehouse Operational Leader looking to take the next steps in your career? Or perhaps you’re an experienced Warehouse Manager who feels as though their capabilities aren’t being recognised? Then look no further!

Here at GXO an exciting new opportunity has become available for an Warehouse Manager to join our site in Barnsley. You’ll play a vital role in supporting the site manager in ensuring colleagues meet or exceed operational requirements for our customer. This will involve organising colleagues and supervising workload to meet Key Performance Indicators, within the agreed timeframe. You will be working in a fast paced environment where no two days will be the same. The ideal candidate will thrive in a challenging environment and be able to multitask and prioritise tasks with a tight turnaround time.

You’ll be working Monday-Friday, 40 hours week on a full-time, permanent basis. However, there will be a level of flexibility required to suit the business with regards to working hours.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £45,000.00. In addition, we offer 25 annual leave (plus bank holidays. Your benefits package includes, a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Responsible for warehouse management team and overall warehouse function
• Management of legal and operational compliance for the department
• Workforce planning and effective resourcing to cope with picking volumes
• Carry out incident / accident investigations and complete relevant administration in line with Company procedures.
• Leading a positive Health and Safety culture within the warehouse
• Employee Relations, including experience dealing with Disciplinary, Absence and Grievance matters

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Previous managerial experience within ideally an industrial or manufacturing environment
• Analytical and a logical approach to problem solving
• Experience of leading change and continuous improvement ideologies
• Proactive in Health and Safety management
• WMS experience ideally using SAP

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are Disability Confident Committed as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.