Head of Warehousing

**Head of Warehousing**

New role to Oak Furnitureland - Head of Warehousing - This senior leadership role will be pivotal in the further development of our logistics division, establishing a highly productive, customer centric operation.

We at Oak Furnitureland are going through an exciting transformation, to fulfil our ambition of “helping people make their house a real home” delivering quality, stylish products at accessible prices. With a long-standing heritage and a growing and evolving digital presence, we are further investing in and developing our logistics division, who will play an integral role in enabling us to achieve our goals.

**Role Purpose**

The Head of Warehousing will lead our in-house warehouse operation at our flagship site in Swindon. Effectively managing the receipt through to despatch of 1.5 million cases per year, to our network of 14 Depots across the UK.

As Head of Warehousing, you’ll be a highly experienced and ‘hands on’ individual with a proven track record in leading, motivating and developing operational management teams. Instilling a ‘right first time’ mentality and championing a continuous improvement culture, which positively and significantly impacts the performance of both the people and the organisation.

The Head of Warehousing manages operational budgets and KPI’s, with autonomy to develop effective resource plans, ensuring cost, productivity and service targets are delivered. Acting as an exceptional brand ambassador, the Head of Warehousing will help shape, evaluate and plan short, medium and long term operational and strategic objectives.

**Salary**: £75,000 to £90,000 total package (depending on experience)

**Location**: Swindon

**Benefits**: £7,000 car allowance

7% Pension

Income Protection

3 x Life Assurance

33 days Holiday (inc bank holiday)

Generous Staff Discounts

**Core Responsibilities**
- Provide leadership, motivation, and development to the operations management team
- Proactively challenge and support the warehouse operation to consistently achieve excellence
- Propose and enable strategies to reduce costs and improve procedures across the logistics operation
- Manage multiple assignments simultaneously with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Build long term relationships with stakeholders across the businesses
- Ensure all company Health and Safety policies are adhered to
- Promoting Oak Furniture Land as an employer of choice

**Key Characteristics**
- You’ll be a role model and an advocate, embedding and demonstrating OFL’s Customer First Principles and values
- You’ll possess excellent interpersonal skills, be credible, authentic and influential
- An inspirational Leader, able to engage with all levels
- You’ll be confident and comfortable at problem solving and finding viable solutions through researching evidence based best practice and offering constructive challenge to existing process and practice
- An advocate for working collaboratively and collectively in pursuit of joint goals across multiple functions, bringing teams together at the right time to guarantee successful outcomes
- You’ll be courageous, challenge the status Quo and decisions that pursue short-term or personal goals at the expense of the overall business performance
- Highly analytical, commercial, numerical and action focused
- Ability to effectively switch between vision and strategy, flawless detail and execution, providing constant innovation and forward-momentum at pace.
- You’ll be a brilliantly, dexterous, and highly skilled communicator
- A track record of developing campaigns that have delivered real business growth
- Comfortable with change, ambiguity, and able to prioritise conflicting and competing demands in complex areas

**Skills & Knowledge**
- Proven experience in managing large scale warehouse operations c400 employees
- Expertise in warehouse management procedures and best practices
- Strong leadership skills with background demonstrating high level communication with key stakeholders
- Demonstrable ability to manage sizable multimillion £ cost budgets
- Proven ability to identify, evaluate and implement operational improvement initiatives
- Strong knowledge of warehousing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills