Warehouse Team Manager – Night Shift
£35,000 - £42,625 per annum pro rata (dependent on experience) - inclusive of shift premium, plus great benefits
Night Shift 10pm – 6am
Permanent, 40 hours per week, full time
5 days out of 7, including weekends
West Thurrock CDC, Oliver Road, West Thurrock, RM20 3ED

We’re looking for a warehouse team manager to join our team in the Thurrock depot.

You’ll be responsible for a sizeable team of warehouse operatives, making sure that all products are picked and packed in a safe and secure manner. We’ll look for you to engage with your team; leading and coaching them to deliver better results week on week, along with making sure that they adhere to working standards, policies and procedures. 

What you’ll do

• manage a sizeable team of warehouse operatives 
• inspire, engage and coach your team to be highly efficient 
• work towards tight deadlines and critical measures
• develop and build positive relationships with various internal business partners
• drive warehouse standards, procedures and policies- particularly health and safety
• analyse performance data  
• identify areas to improve process within your team and the warehouse operations 
• plan and organise the delivery of own and your teams work load

This role would suit someone who has

• previously managed a sizeable team, preferably from a logistics or FMCG background
• the ability to work at pace and accuracy
• a great track record of reaching and exceeding critical performance measures 
• an understanding and great knowledge of warehouse policies and procedures  
• great planning skills and able to organise your own and teams workload 
• an understanding of how poor service can impact stores and customers 
• strong and confident communication skills
• excellent IT skills

At Co-op you’ll do work that matters, and you’ll be rewarded for your hard work with a competitive salary (including additional shift allowances) and a benefits package which includes holidays starting from 31 days per year (including bank holidays), 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores, a pension with up to 10% employer contributions, plus:

• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Free employee assistance programme with extensive health, financial and wellbeing support
• Access to credit unions for loans and savings, plus rental deposit loans and season ticket loans
• Free eye tests every 2 years
• On-site facilities including a subsidised canteen and free parking

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.  

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job. 

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing. 

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate. You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process. 

We reserve the right to remove a vacancy before the scheduled closing date.