Nights despatch manager - united kingdom, salford, manchester

if you are an experienced despatch manager, with excellent organisational and communication skills, we want to hear from you.

here at birtwistle's we pride ourselves on being a people-focused business. our goal is to support our team in achieving their career goals. we do this by providing a working environment that offers opportunity, support, scope, and pace of change. our culture is the foundation of our business and is reflect in our mission, vision, and values statements.

the nights despatch manager reports into the transport manager and the main purpose of the role is to ensure the smooth day to day running of all aspects of transport and goods despatch.

core working hours are 5 nights a week on a rotating rota, sunday to friday, 20:00 - 06:00, with every saturday night plus an additional night off.

we require someone with a friendly personality and the ability to be able to develop good working relationships across the business and manage and develop their team.

main responsibilities of the nights despatch manager include:

to organise, oversee, and load vehicles, prioritising routes and workloadday to day management of the nights despatch team including rota planning, holiday management, staff training and development, team building, and disciplinariescommunication with colleagues regarding any incidents relating to vehicle accidents, incidents, and breakdownsdaily reporting to the transport manageroverall responsibility for the security of the despatch bays, rear yard, and all vehicleswork closely with the order make-up department to continually improve vehicle despatch timeswe would welcome applications for this nights despatch manager role from candidates with the following skills: despatch management/supervision, flt, slas, communication, leadership, people management, warehouse, transport, vehicle routing, communication.

benefitsdiscounted staff salesfree car parkingemployee of the month bonus free on-site health checksessential skillsstrong leadership and communication skills and the ability to develop good working relationships with managers in other areas of the business, to deliver the common goals of the business in terms of profitability and provision of agreed service levels to customersexperience of team management and developmentabsence managementgood organisational skillswillingness to embrace change and the ability to work to tight deadlinesdesirable skillsa background in fmcg or working in chilled meat/poultry environment is preferable but not essentiala current flt license (both reach and counterbalance). good it skills, particularly microsoft applicationsabout companybirtwistle's started life as a family butcher over 100 years ago. since then, the business has changed dramatically and none more so than in recent years.

in 2003 mj birtwistle & co ltd was established and marked the start of a new era in our history. since then, growth has been dramatic, with the business expanding from one site at worsley to 8 sites across the uk.

we're always looking for great people to come and work with us. if you've got the right passion, drive and will to succeed then we'll nurture it and give you the opportunities to forge a successful career at birtwistle's.

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