Warehouse Operations Manager

Strive Supply Chain • Permanent • Worcester, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom • £55k - £60k / year • 9h ago

Strive are a UK wide Supply Chain & Logistics management recruiter. Please visit strive . co . uk for additional roles across engineering, production, warehouse & transport operations.

Warehouse Operations Manager

c£55k + Excellent Benefits

Worcestershire

Strive Supply Chain are a leading management recruitment consultancy, specialising in Supply Chain, Production, Planning, Logistics, Transport & Warehouse Operations, please visit our website for further vacancies and information.

Our client is a leading FMCG distributor seeking a Warehouse Operations Manager to lead day-to-day activity at its Worcester site while delivering a structured programme of continuous improvement across people, processes, systems and performance.

Reporting to the General Manager, you will lead Warehouse Shift Managers and Supervisors and have overall responsibility for an operation of approximately 120 FTEs. The role has an equal focus on operational delivery and improvement: ensuring safe, reliable and cost-effective performance today, while identifying, prioritising and implementing changes that improve productivity, service, quality and cost over the longer term.

Key Accountabilities as Warehouse Operations Manager:

Operational management: Take full ownership of day-to-day warehouse activity, ensuring customer, service, safety, quality, cost and productivity targets are consistently achieved.
Continuous improvement: Build and maintain a practical improvement roadmap, using operational data and frontline insight to identify opportunities, define priorities and deliver measurable benefits.
People leadership: Lead, coach and develop Shift Managers, Supervisors and warehouse colleagues, setting clear expectations, strengthening capability and creating an accountable, customer-focused culture.
Performance management: Establish a disciplined operating rhythm of daily reviews, KPI analysis and action tracking; address performance gaps quickly and remove recurring causes of failure.
Process optimisation: Review inbound, storage, replenishment, picking and despatch processes to improve flow, labour utilisation, stock accuracy and customer service.
Financial control: Manage labour, consumables, assets and other warehouse costs within agreed budgets, developing robust business cases and tracking the benefits of improvement activity.
Standardisation and sustainability: Develop, document and embed standard operating procedures so that improvements are sustained, shared and understood across all shifts.
Safety and compliance: Ensure all legal, audit, health and safety and company standards are met or exceeded, with effective corrective actions and a culture of proactive risk reduction.
Change leadership: Lead the implementation of operational changes, engaging colleagues early, communicating the rationale and expected benefits, and adapting delivery to secure adoption.
Collaboration: Work closely with the General Manager, other depots and cross-functional teams to resolve constraints, share best practice and maintain end-to-end service levels.

The Ideal Person for the Warehouse Operations Manager role:

Proven experience leading a sizeable, fast-paced FMCG warehouse operation, ideally across multiple shifts.
A strong record of delivering daily operational targets while also leading sustainable improvements in productivity, service, quality, safety or cost.
Practical experience of continuous improvement methodologies and structured problem-solving; Lean or Six Sigma exposure would be advantageous.
Strong analytical capability, with the confidence to interpret KPIs, identify root causes, quantify opportunities and track realised benefits.
Effective budget, labour and resource management skills, with sound commercial judgement.
An engaging and visible leadership style, with evidence of coaching managers, developing teams and building accountability.
Excellent planning, communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to lead people effectively through change.
A pragmatic, hands-on approach: equally comfortable managing immediate operational priorities and driving longer-term transformation.

Apply now for immediate consideration.

Strive Supply Chain Limited [& associated businesses] acts as an employment agency on behalf of external employers for the provision of permanent staff. By applying for this vacancy, you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers

You may also be interested in these jobs

production/warehouse operative

Workforce Staffing Ltd • Temporary • Hereford, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom • £14.24 / hour • 9h ago

Warehouse & Driving

Production Operative – Hereford £12.71 – £14.24 per hour 6:00am – 2:00pm | Monday – Friday Hereford Looking for a Monday–Friday role with great hours and competitive pay? We’re currently looking for enthusiastic and re...

9h ago

Apply

Forklift Driver / Yard Op

Gill Cooke Personnel Ltd T/A The Recruitment Group • Temporary • Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom • £14.50 / hour • 9h ago

Warehouse & Driving

We are currently sourcing Forklift Drivers to join a busy and well-established company based in Chipping Campden! As a Forklift Driver, your role will include: Operating Counterbalance Forklift Trucks safely and efficien...

9h ago

Apply

Steel Picker

Pertemps Dudley Industrial • Temporary • Kingswinford, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom • £13.15 / hour • 9h ago

Warehouse & Driving

Role: Steel Picker Location: Kingswinford Hours of work: Monday to Friday - 10am to 6.30pm Hourly Rate: £13.15ph Duration: Temp to Perm We are looking for a reliable Steel Picker to join our clients busy warehouse team....

9h ago

Apply

Van Driver

Manpower UK Ltd • Temporary • Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom • £13.18 / hour • 9h ago

Warehouse & Driving

3.5T MULTI-DROP DRIVER Location: Off New Town Row, Lower Tower St, Birmingham B6 4HP Pay rate: £13.18 per hour Shift times: 8.30am - 14.30pm Manpower is pleased to be recruiting on behalf of our National Client based in...

9h ago

Apply

Warehouse Operative

Gi Group • Temporary • Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom • £12.71 / hour • 9h ago

Warehouse & Driving

Experienced Warehouse Operative - Birmingham (B26) 4pm-Midnight | Mon-Fri | Ongoing Work We're looking for an experienced Warehouse Operative to join a busy site in Birmingham (B26) on an ongoing basis. Shift pattern Mon...

9h ago

Apply

Get more jobs like this

Create a free job alert

You may also be interested in these jobs

production/warehouse operative

Forklift Driver / Yard Op

Steel Picker

Van Driver

Warehouse Operative

Get more jobs like this

HIREDONLINE

JOB SEEKERS

RECRUITERS

TOP SEARCHES