General Manager

5 months ago

Appleby Magna, United Kingdom Mango Logistics Full time

**Contract**: Fixed Term Contract
**Location**: DE12 8AA - Appleby Magna
**Salary**: To £85,000 plus car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

**About the Job**

Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You'll have an important part to play in automotive success that spans nearly 50 years. Unipart Logistics (UL) has secured a contract to run the new, custom-built Jaguar Land Rover Global Parts Logistics Centre at Appleby Magna in Leicestershire. The operation will be housed at Jaguar Land Rover's new Mercia Park campus, one of the largest UK warehouse developments for a single customer. With a multimillion-pound major facility investment program already underway, we would like you to join us now to be part of the core team. This is a great opportunity to be a major part of the successful implementation of what is said to be the largest automotive logistics project in the UK.

As General Manager you will deliver world-class standards in cost, quality, and delivery and you will focus on activity in support of our strategic "Go Digital, Go Green, Go Faster" growth and development. You will be fully accountable for the performance and management of warehouse operations and will have the opportunity to define, plan, manage, and sustain organisation and operational change and transformation projects that will truly make a difference.

A full '360' role, you will manage all aspects of the Distribution Centre covering inbound and outbound processing, warehouse management, distribution management, internal quality control, returns processing and stock integrity, safety, budget, Unipart Way, and compliance.

**As part of your key responsibilities you'll**:

- Be responsible for compliance with health and safety regulations and quality standards
- Take the lead driving and embedding sustainability actions in support of our commitment to become carbon neutral by 2030, and our pledge to reach 'carbon net zero' by 2050 or sooner
- Ensure 'The Unipart Way' is implemented and embedded across the site and use the principles to ensure operational excellence
- Embed a culture of employee engagement across the site; where the site is considered to be exemplary
- Manage Senior Operations Managers - and their direct reports
- Ensure that resource skills and levels are consistent with medium and long-term business plans
- Overall accountability for operational performance to Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators
- Ensure that the operating budget is set and managed within targets
- Overall accountability for compliance with legal and ethical people management practice
- Ensure effective two-way communication processes with team, customer, and suppliers

**About You**:

- Experience at operating at a senior level in a 3PL environment - ideally in automotive logistics
- Proven ability to manage a team to deliver the required standards and performance
- Solid experience in defining, planning, managing and sustaining both organisation and operational change and transformation projects - e.g. start up operations
- Resilience in ability to work under pressure in a challenging and constantly changing environment, evidenced by previous experience in a fast changing, volume driven working and customer environment
- Commercial acumen to understand, challenge, and manage financial decision making
- Clear leadership skills, to inspire with energy and passion within and across Senior Leaders and their teams
- Proven effective relationships with client / customer
- Flexibility and ability to deal with change

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

You may have experience in the following: General Manager of Automotive Logistics, Automotive Logistics Director, Logistics Operations General Manager, Director of Automotive Logistics, Automotive Supply Chain Manager, etc.

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