Warehouse Team Manager

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Overview of the role

Joining an established and growing area of the Well Pharmacy business, within our Warehouse. This is more than your standard warehouse role; you'll be working in a modern warehouse but also within a pharmacy professional environment and dealing with new technology that will have a positive impact on our customers.

You'll join the team working closely with other Team Managers and reporting into the Shift Operations Manager in running the operation, ensuring standards are maintained and improved, reviewing ways of working and ensuring that you and your team deliver specific KPIs. You'll be responsible for managing your team, regarding performance, engagement through to handovers and ensuring the correct headcount is available to achieve volume.
From quality and accuracy through to problem resolution, you'll be liaising with the wider warehouse operations as well as onsite technology support to ensure quick resolution to any issues and minimal impact on delivery of workload. A large part of the role will also be focussing on continuous improvements, planning and ensuring that the operation runs smoothly around fluctuating volumes.

In return, you'll be working in a modern warehouse and be part of an established and growing operation. There will be plenty of opportunities to develop and train as well as progress your career.

Main Responsibility
Key knowledge and skills required for the role:
• Line Management experience within Logistics and Warehousing
• Competent to stand up to audiences and motivate the team, driving behaviours
• Operational Excellence/ Lean/ Six Sigma Experience desirable
• Very good knowledge of IT Warehouse Management Systems
• Good experience working with Microsoft Office Word, Excel & PowerPoint
• IOSH qualification desirable but is not essential

The Ideal Candidate

Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

Package Description

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent training & development opportunities
• Paid Holidays
• Workplace pension scheme
• Staff Discount
• Travel Loans and more...

About the Company

For over 70 years, we've been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.

We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

'Together we make a difference'