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About the Role

This role is responsible for setting and delivering the distribution centre’s vision, strategy, and long-term operational plans. You will lead high-performing operational teams, drive performance against SLAs, and control costs while identifying and implementing initiatives for improving distribution capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Set and deliver the distribution centre’s vision, strategy, and long-term operational plans.
• Lead high performing operational teams and drive performance against SLAs whilst controlling costs.
• Develop and execute strategies to increase team performance and deliver highest quality standards.
• Identify initiatives for improving distribution capabilities (processes, organisational structures, planning, teams, technology, etc.).
• Develop and implement operational improvement strategies and plans to improve efficiency and performance of distribution and logistics functions.
• Manage supplier contracts, procurement activities and compliance requirements.
• Ensure procurement processes and contract negotiations with key external vendors and service providers, as well as new business and supplier onboarding compliance with global policies.
• Own and manage the budget, monitoring budget and targets, identifying variances, and taking remedial action.
• Keep internal key stakeholders informed of key operational data and updates.
• Ensure proficient management and expertise of WMS, ASRS systems, MHE and related software.
• Achieve optimal management, stock availability and service level commitments.
• Maintain effective and strategic labour relations with trade union delegates.

Requirements

• Considerable commercial experience in distribution and logistics at a senior level in a fast-paced, multi-national, direct-to-consumer automated operations environment or similar.
• Experience in leading transformational change programs that improve efficiency across a warehouse/distribution environment.
• Extensive experience managing managers and leading large and complex teams across multiple disciplines.
• Experience effectively dealing with all manner of people related topics.
• Passionate about managing operational teams through being in the known, strong shopfloor presence, routines to manage daily, weekly and monthly performance and creating high levels of motivation and accountability within all teams.
• Experience managing and working in a unionised environment.
• Clear communicator, with fluency in written and spoken English.

Skills

• WMS
• ASRS systems
• MHE
• Procurement
• Budget Management
• Team Leadership
• Operational Improvement
• Supplier Contract Management
• Labour Relations

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Director

About the Company

• LuxExperience is an equal opportunities employer, we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• We recognize and celebrate the benefits that diversity brings to our workplace, our business and our customers.
• We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of race and nationality, religion, color, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as an individual with a disability, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Equal Opportunity

• If you require any reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please do not hesitate to advise us accordingly.