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On-site in Nottingham·Added 5 days ago (last checked 2 Nov)
Our summary
- Work mode
- On-site, Nottingham
Skills
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Resilient, Confident and determined, Analytical
- Inspirational, adaptable and open to change
- Willing to embrace the ambiguity of a continually changing environment
- People leader with high standards
- Experience managing and motivating a large operational team including planning and organising, exposure to controlling costs and managing a budget.
- Experience working and knowledge of Supply Chain, warehouse processes and flows.
- Effective working & strong communication skills that are effective at all levels.
- Support Team Leaders in developing themselves & their teams and managing performance issues that are fundamental to a successful operation.
- The ability to interpret high-level data, forward thinking, promote & motivate teams to achieve results and help to create a culture that they are proud to work in.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Generous employee discounts
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
- Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our
Employee Assistance Programme.
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The role
What you'll do
As our Departmental Manager, you'll lead a large team daily and you'll ensure that customer service is at the forefront of your mind.
Additionally, you'll deliver levels of operational efficiency across all your areas of remit. You will guide smarter, more efficient ways of working through automation, reducing waste activity and developing broad teams and creating a “can do” culture in our organisation.
You will lead a large team of colleagues, with up to 10 direct reports who are working across 2 shifts.
Manage both Boots and agency colleague performance, absence and accuracy. You will also require yourself to own and lead multiple projects as part of your role, always maintaining a mindset on continuous improvement.
- You will service 1,900 stores
- Manage up to 1,000 colleagues out of peak across both agency and core Boots teams, with headcount increasing during peak
- Experience providing meaningful CI programmes is necessary.
- To lead a team who are focused on maximising shelf availability and delivering the highest service level possible to stores and accurate receiving, picking and despatching of stock
- Manage performance of staff and achieve the throughputs in their functional area
- To control and manage budgets
- To ensure team members receive performance reviews
- To make short-term tactical decisions in the operation to overcome anything that may affect on service to stores or availability of products
- To link up with other Department Managers during the working day to ensure management of the warehouse
- To maintain a handover from the off going shift, the preparation and delivery of pre shift briefings and the coordination of activity and maintenance of a positive working relationship with the wider management team
- To implement short and medium operational plans within the warehouse
- To lead the Health and Safety and Shrink agenda with own team and operating area
- To ensure that a positive culture is created through recognition and support also responsible for ensuring that the partnership process is supported and visible to the team
How you'll work
Hours:12pm-8pm OR 2pm-10pm
It would be great if you also have
- Good level of automation experience would be ideal
- Proficient in MS office applications / Power BI
- Create teams and succession for the future.
Where your brilliance can take you
You can understand the wider supply chain and your role in it, We encourage career progression within this department and the wider business
Keywords
Department, Manager, Warehouse, Supply
Hiring process
If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.
We hope to hear from you soon.
About Boots
Boots is a retail company.
Its careers site advertises a wide range of job openings, and the operator has validated its industry as Retail.
- Industry
- Retail
In their own words
About the company & team
Recruitment Partner: Vyoma Gandhi - (vyoma.gandhi@boots.co.uk)
At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.
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