Logistics Team Manager - Nights

Are you looking for a career opportunity, somewhere you are valued and can work with a great team making amazing food products?

As a Logistics Team Manager based at our Isleport Distribution Centre in Highbridge, Somerset, you'll be responsible for leading and developing one of our Logistics Operational teams.  Ensuring we are operating in the safest environment, you’ll engage, support and develop your team members to ensure our finished goods/raw materials are picked accurately, dispatched with maximum efficiency, and presented to the highest standard for our customers.

As well as making sure things are running smoothly on a daily basis, you'll work together with your team and other functions to continually improve the quality, efficiency, distribution and labour costs.

Key responsibilities: 

• Understanding and applying the highest Health & Safety standards within your area of responsibility and driving a safety-first culture within your team
• Engaging and developing the team through demonstrating our Values and being a role model
• Leading the team to ensure on time in full delivery of our products
• Developing the team to achieve all KPIs and targets including safety, quality, delivery, and cost
• Working collaboratively both across Supply Chain and with other functions to ensure that work plans are agreed, prioritised and delivered
• Confidently using technology such as Microsoft packages and use of hand-held devices and other relevant software systems to deliver your job role
• Delivering department and business communications and reporting to the highest standards with ability to analyse and interpret the detail of results within your team
• Leading continuous improvement activities providing measures of success through application of CI principles

This is a 4 nights on 4 nights off role working 20:00 to 08:00

The important things:

• Knowledge of Microsoft software
• Experience of leading a team
• Good communication and organisational skills 
• Problem solving and analytical skills 

• You’ve worked in the dairy or FMCG business.
• You have knowledge and awareness of Health & Safety principles and application
• You have a passion for continual improvement

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• 22 days’ holiday, including bank holidays 
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.