Despatch Zone Manager

Greencore Group plc; Warrington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in Warrington seeks a Warehouse Manager to oversee despatch operations and team performance. The role includes managing operational KPIs, ensuring food safety, and fostering a safe workplace. Ideal candidates will have warehouse and people management experience, along with relevant health and safety knowledge. Competitive salary and benefits offered, including pension, life insurance, and development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Warehouse management experience is essential.
• Experience with people management processes is beneficial.
• Food safety knowledge is required.

Responsibilities

• Manage the despatch plan and operational key performance indicators.
• Provide leadership and direction to the warehouse teams.
• Lead risk assessments and ensure a safe workplace.
• Manage operational controls for warehouse activities.
• Maximize performance through engagement activities.
• Control costs associated with the despatch shift.

Skills

Warehouse management experience

People management experience

Food safety experience

FLT, PPT and reach truck experience

Health & Safety operational experience

Job description

Why Greencore?

We’reone of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business,we’reproud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop.

OurWarringtonsite is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for Tesco & Co-Op.

What you’ll be doing

SHIFT - 4 on 4 off - 5am to 4:10pm

• To manage the despatch plan and that the operational key performance indicators and ensure costs are achieved
• Provide leadership and direction to the warehouse teams to ensure that there is an adequate resource plan, and that are supported in their roles and are effective
>Lead the risk assessment, accident investigation, operational inspection and behavioural monitoring processes that ensures a safe workplace and operation and appropriate corrective actions
• Manage operational controls, including administration and system compliance, to ensure that operational information relating to warehouse activities is accurate to demonstrate control in the event of an audit or investigation
• Manage development and engagement activities across the shift, to ensure that colleagues are enabled and delivering maximum performance
• Manage costs associated with the despatch shift, to achieve key performance indicators
• Manage any contractor activity taking place on the shift to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements

What we’re looking for

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

• Warehouse management experience
• People management experience e.g absence, disciplinary procedures
• Food safety experience
• FLT. PPT and reach truck experience
• H&S operational experience

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.