Despatch Flm

Allied Bakeries make the top bread brands Kingsmill, Allinson’s and Sunblest. Across our bakeries we make white, wholemeal and seeded market-leading loaves, as well as Kingsmill 50/50, the nation’s favourite Healthier White, delicious pancakes, crumpets, hot cross buns and more.

We take massive pride in our brands and all that we do, including our bakeries having one of the best safety performance records in the industry. We know that the success of our business depends on us having the right people on the team, so if you’re looking to join a business that values its people, encourages everyone to get involved and be the best they can be, we’d love to hear from you.

**Overview of role**:
**Location: Glasgow**

We have an excellent opportunity for a developing Logistics professional to join our team as the Despatch Front Line Manager at Allied Bakeries, Glasgow. This rotational shift role alternates from days to nights, working 4 on and 4 off.

**Key Accountabilities**:
Working in a fast-paced, diverse department, you will lead, motivate and develop a team to cover the entire activity cycle from incoming goods to despatching customer orders. You will effectively utilise both our people and our systems to ensure control, allocation and picking of stock as per customer requirements. You will also build and maintain close relationships with key stakeholders, including Distribution, Customer Services, 3rd Party suppliers, Allied Bakeries sites, and depots.

**The Role**:

- Actively promoting a culture of “Safety First”.
- Ensure the team are fully aware and compliant with all Health and Safety standards, policies, and legislation.
- Ensure that the team is adequately trained and briefed to fulfil shift requirements.
- To ensure that despatched goods meet customer expectations, including code control.
- Ensure that all departing vehicles are documented, loaded and secured correctly.
- Be responsible for food safety/product integrity within Despatch
- Responsible for controlling Despatch costs, including labour, damage and sales losses.
- Manage throughputs, including pick rates, loading, unloading and admin.

**Key Skills**:

- Previous experience developing people to consistently high-performance levels in a comparable role.
- Demonstrate the ability to take a practical approach to decision-making.
- Be a skilled and confident communicator.
- Good working knowledge of MS Office - Word and Excel
- Able to function and decide the work methods competently when faced with tight deadlines and intensive workloads.

**The Right Person**:
There are plenty of reasons why this is a great place to work, and here are just a few of the benefits for you:

- Competitive Salary and benefits
- Comprehensive training as part of induction, Pension: Matching employer pension contributions of up to 10% (inclusive of Life Assurance),
- Employee Assistance Programme:

- A 24/7, 365 helplines, with calls answered by experienced in-house counsellors, legal and financial specialists
- My Healthy Advantage smartphone app and online personalised wellbeing content.
- Cycle to work scheme,
- Extra Slice - company discount scheme that saves our employee money at more than 500 businesses/outlets.

If you're looking to join a passionate business that encourages you to be the best you can be and values its people, we'd like to hear from you.

Our defining value is to ‘_Be the best we can be’; _the behaviors that we believe help us to do this and are key to our success are: _Aim high, I do what I say, Work Together_ and _Everybody Matters_.
- 'We strive to ensure that all employee's receive the resources they need to succeed_,_ to _build a diverse and i_nclusive organisation that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for consumers, customers and stakeholders’._