Warehouse Manager

Warehouse Manager

Location: Brighouse, West Yorkshire
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Reporting to: Operations Director
Salary: £45,000 – £50,000

The company is an importer, distributor, and brand builder of world-class beers from Europe, the USA, and Japan. They work closely with independent brewers and a diverse customer base including bar owners, pub groups, wholesalers, restaurateurs, and major retailers.

Role Overview

The Warehouse Manager is responsible for the safe, efficient, and compliant day-to-day operation of the National Distribution Centre. Reporting to the Operations Director, the role translates operational plans and priorities into consistent site-level execution, ensuring service levels, cost control, and people standards are delivered within a fast-paced FMCG distribution environment. This role plays a key part in enabling short-term performance excellence and long-term efficiency improvements across the warehouse operation.

Key Responsibilities
Operational Leadership
• Lead and manage all daily warehouse activities including goods-in, stock control, replenishment, picking, repacking, loading, returns, samples, POS, and glassware.
• Ensure process disciplines, working standards, and operational controls are consistently applied across all warehouse activities.
• Plan and prioritise labour resources across daily and weekly peaks in collaboration with the Operations Director and Assistant Warehouse Manager, escalating risk, constraints, or service impacts as appropriate.
• Work closely with the Transport Manager to align warehouse output with transport plans and delivery schedules.

People Management & Culture
• Lead, coach, and develop warehouse colleagues to create a high-performance culture focused on engagement, accountability, safety, and continuous improvement.
• Manage performance, attendance, and development plans ensuring clear expectations, regular feedback, and capability development across the warehouse team.
• Supporting teams through operational and systems change.

Continuous Improvement
• Taking a ‘right-first-time’ approach, drive process improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, accuracy, space utilisation, and service performance. Use data and root-cause analysis to identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
• Support the implementation and optimisation of Warehouse Management System (WMS) and site layout improvements ensuring solutions practical, scalable, and aligned to operational needs.
• Apply sound judgement when balancing process complexity, system configuration, and cost-benefit considerations, escalating recommendations where investment decisions are required.

Resource Planning & Cost Control
• Plan labour and equipment resources in line with forecast volumes and operational priorities.
• Use a data driven mindset to improve labour efficiency and cost control.
• Minimise waste, damages, and rework while maintaining high service level standards.

Training & Capability
• Ensure all warehouse colleagues are capability assessed and appropriately trained for their roles, including inductions, system training, and equipment training.
• Review training needs regularly to ensure skills, certifications, and compliance remain current.

Health, Safety & Compliance
• Lead a Health & Safety culture where safety is seen as something we do for our people.
• Promote open reporting of hazards, near-misses, and unsafe behaviours, treating these as opportunities to learn, improve, and prevent harm.
• Chair Health & Safety meetings, and lead incident and near-miss investigation, ensuring effective Health & Safety training across the warehouse in line with group Health & Safety policies and expectations set by the Operations Director.
• Ensure compliance with FLT operations, daily equipment checks, defect reporting, and safe working practices

Skills, Knowledge & Experience
• Proven warehouse management experience within FMCG or fast-moving distribution environments.
• Strong people leadership experience within a changing or improving operation.
• Demonstrated experience delivering continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Experience supporting WMS implementation or optimisation is highly desirable.
• Strong planning, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communicator with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders.

Hours & Conditions
• Warehouse operating hours: 06:00 – 22:00
• Management flexibility required to meet business needs
• Monthly paid salary
• Annual holiday entitlement: 28 days per year (accrued monthly).

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Pick productivity (Cases or KG per Hour)
• Order Pick Accuracy (%)
• On-Time-In-Full (OTIF)
• Labour Cost vs Budget
• Stock Accuracy
• Health & Safety Performance
• Absence and Attrition

For further information please submit your CV and covering letter. Unity Personnel are acting as a Recruitment Agency in respect of this role.

Rate of Pay

£45,000.00 – £50,000.00 per year

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