Warehouse Team Manager - Ambient

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About The Role

About Your role:

We are in a fantastic position to be offering Warehouse & Logistics Team Manager roles at our Distribution site where we have an onsite population in excess of 1000 colleagues across a 24/7 operation.

Your role as our Warehouse Team Manager, will be to engage and communicate with your team to ensure that it works efficiently in all areas such as goods in, pick and loading. You will do this through your expert experience having managed a fast paced FMCG logistics or warehouse team previously and you will be focused on managing your people to deliver the best possible service to your customers.

As we "Work with Purpose", these following points are critical to your success;

• Our colleagues are our priority and you will look to develop talent in your team through coaching and guidance
• You will set targets and review progress, creating plans to improve performance
• We expect you to be solutions driven, resolving operational problems and implementing continuous improvement initiatives
• Monitor and deliver KPIs, taking action to ensure they are met.

About You

As well as being a true people person, that can operate at pace and think outside the box, you should also meet the below:

• 2+ years in a warehouse or logistics FMCG environment
• Team management experience is desirable but not essential

In return for your hard work we will offer you:

• Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays).
• 15% discount in our stores available from the day you join us.
• Additional 10% discount More Card for a friend or family member.
• Career progression and development opportunities.Subsidised staff canteen.
• Free parking.Market leading pension and life assurance.
• Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP.
• Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more.
• Long Service Awards.Optional Payroll charity donations.
• Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave

About the site

About Us Description:

At this huge distribution site in Wakefield that covers 1.2 million square feet, our team of 1,300 colleagues sends out our products to 194 stores.

Here we store and dispatch ambient goods, bread and fresh and frozen food. Everything from frozen chips to cans of mushy peas. 2.7 million cases go out of here every week, which can rise to 5 million when we're super busy. At this site, we also recycle waste and have VMU and InMotion Backhaul teams.

About The Company

From a Bradford market stall to the UK's 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer.

We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK in over almost 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet.

Every week, 11 million customers pass through our doors and around 97,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our Morrisons.com service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.

We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.

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