General Manager – Essex

About the role

The General Manager in Distribution is responsible for leading and managing a team to achieve high performance at the distribution sites. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and motivating a diverse team to meet business objectives and customer targets.
• Ensuring effective operational performance and customer satisfaction.
• Implementing new working patterns to drive continuous improvement.
• Communicating effectively with employees, trade unions, and customers.
• Managing relationships within the customer network and formulating partnerships.
• Succession planning and identifying key issues and priorities.
• Maximizing weekly, monthly, and annual performance through leadership and focus on customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Leading and motivating a diverse team to meet business objectives and customer targets.
• Ensuring effective operational performance and customer satisfaction.
• Implementing new working patterns to drive continuous improvement.
• Communicating effectively with employees, trade unions, and customers.
• Managing relationships within the customer network and formulating partnerships.
• Succession planning and identifying key issues and priorities.
• Maximizing weekly, monthly, and annual performance through leadership and focus on customer requirements.

Requirements

• Graduate calibre with 5 years experience in logistics management roles.
• IT literate.
• Familiarity with finance and profit & loss management.
• Experience in project management.
• At least 3 years of manufacturing food logistics experience.
• People leadership skills.
• Commercial acumen and ability to negotiate and contract.
• Ability to identify key issues and priorities and lead change.
• Strong business English and the ability to achieve results in complex situations.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree.
• 5+ years of logistics management experience.
• Experience in manufacturing food logistics.
• Leadership and motivational skills.
• Project management experience.
• Commercial acumen and negotiation skills.
• Ability to identify key issues and priorities.
• Effective communication skills.

Skills

• Leadership and motivation.
• Operational performance and customer satisfaction.
• Continuous improvement through new working patterns.
• Effective communication with employees, trade unions, and customers.
• Relationship management within the customer network.
• Succession planning and issue identification.
• Performance optimization through leadership and focus on customer requirements.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

£110,000 per annum.

Schedule

Not specified.