Warehouse Team Leader

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

In this role you will..
- Support the Warehouse Supervisor in delivering a professional, cost effective and efficient method of warehouse operations; own and manage all shift related activity in a designated area, ensuring that all departmental KPIs are achieved.
- Report all relevant information, ensuring that all potential service issues are escalated in a timely manner and deliver key Company and departmental information via effective and regular team briefs and communications.
- Ensure your team is fully trained on all relevant warehouse standard operating procedures and safe systems of work, including any new starters.
- Ensuring picks are available for the warehouse operatives, while moving the colleagues around the warehouse to maximise efficiency and performance.
- In liaison with the Warehouse Supervisor, ensure that all employee relations activity, with a high level of confidentiality, such as return to work interviews, daily performance, monitoring and reviewing of employee breaks, redeployment and control the start of shift MHE check sheets.
- Ensure that all information is effectively communicated between departments to enable vehicles to depart on time and that any changes from the load plan are signed off.
- Review and communicate the day to day aspects of the Warehouse operations, such as gun stock errors, product shorts, products ready for loading at the designated time and all MHE Pre-operation Sheets completed with any issues being escalated to the Supervisor.
- Walk the areas of responsibility to carry out a H&S check to ensure the warehouse operation complies with all quality and health and safety procedures including fulfilling all food safety requirements to meet BRC standards.
- Having worked in a FMCG environment and managed a team to deliver the warehouse operations
- Leadership through coaching, communications and problem solving
- Good numeracy, spoken and written communication skills
- Strong IT skills
- Being able to work in a time driven environment working to timescales and prioritise workload.

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

**About Us**:
Samworth Brothers Supply Chain provides temperature controlled distribution services to companies within the Samworth Brothers Group, as well as to many external chilled manufactures, retailers and distributors. We take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._**

**_Please note that non invasive drug and alcohol testing is in place and may be carried out during the interview process._