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General Manager

General Manager

EA First • City Of London, England, GB
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Permanent
Job description

General Manager

Fast paced, highly pressurised food & drinks distribution centre based in Dagenham.

Looking for an experienced General Manager to drive performance and productivity with a strong focus on building a culture of continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Providing leadership, motivation and career development to the site management team, ensuring they achieve excellence day-to-day.
  • Proactive in driving a continuous improvement culture; seeking out and driving improvement initiatives to ensure growth is managed successfully whilst maintaining challenging targets.
  • Developing productive and effective relationships with key customer stakeholders to deliver the customer's growth and longer-term plans.
  • Identifying new opportunities within existing site operations through process optimisation, layout redesigns and systems implementations.
  • Promoting a culture of continuous improvement to improve both colleague and customer satisfaction.
  • Responsible for achieving the overall resource plan that meets current and future business needs of the company.
  • Working with site leadership teams to develop improvement schemes within each department – maintaining optimum use of resources at all times.
  • Seeking initiatives that ensure the contract supports the customer's business plan, supply chain strategy and contract logistics strategy.

Qualifications

  • Logistics distribution and supply chain background.
  • Minimum 5+ years 3PL contract logistics experience at General Manager or Site Manager level.
  • Previous contract logistics experience within Food, Drinks, Wholesale or FMCG is essential.
  • Experience managing budgets up to £10m pa.
  • Confidence and ability to build rapport, develop relationships with internal and external customers.
  • Recognition of opportunities and synergies to enhance customer relationship and maintain and develop business growth opportunities.
  • Energy, determination and commitment to operate in an environment where regular customer contact and scrutiny is the norm and the highest level of customer service is non-negotiable.
  • Managed in excess of 150+ employees indirectly.
  • Demonstrate skills in delivering continuous improvement initiatives using lean processes.
  • IOSH and NEBOSH qualifications.
  • Experience of Six Sigma or Prince2 methodologies would be advantageous.
  • Live within a commutable distance to Dagenham.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Distribution

EA First Ltd are acting as an Employment Agency for this permanent vacancy.

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