Site Supply Chain & Warehouse Manager - Drinks Manufacturing - Refresco UK, Nelson, Lancashire
Competitive salary, plus annual bonus, good pension scheme and private healthcare
Refresco the world’s leading independent soft drinks manufacturer seeks an agile, entrepreneurial and passionate, Site Supply Chain & Warehouse Manager to join our team at Refresco Nelson (Lancashire) . You report to the Site General Manager, are part of the site leadership team, and lead a team of up to 70 colleagues focusing on warehouse and supply chain planning.
The site at Nelson has a new dynamic management team under a new General Manager, who are setting up to fully realise the full benefits and ROI of recent major multi £million investment in leading edge drink's manufacturing technology.
As a supply chain / warehousing professional why would you want to work anywhere else, when you could work with leading technology, and learn from industry experts in drink's manufacturing!
About the Role
The role of Site Supply Chain & Warehouse Manager is an interesting mix of warehouse management responsibilities and supply chain planning at our Nelson site.
You cover all aspects of warehouse management, everything related to goods received, storage of all goods and despatch of finished goods including transport management (Refresco uses 3PL for all our transport). In addition this is a pivotal role in site supply chain planning and production plan forecasting. You are the link between the site and central Supply Chain Planning, participating in the monthly S&OP process, taking the production plan and making sure that your team have all required goods ready and available to deliver the agreed plan. All of this with health & safety at the forefront of everything you do. You have 4 direct reports - a Site Scheduler and 3 Warehouse Front Line Managers.
You will lead your team to deliver the following:
About You
You will need experience in logistics and supply chain including warehousing and ideally gained within a fast moving manufacturing environment. You will need to demonstrate that you are an inspiring, energetic leader with clear communication and commercially related objective setting so that KPI's and targets are understood and achieved. A good record on improving and promoting health and safety is essential.
This role requires a high degree of inter action with Operations and Engineering colleagues on the site, so it is important that you are a good networker, open and approachable. In addition you will need to establish good communication lines and relationships with the central Supply Chain Planning team.
Our production forecasts can change with little or no notice, so you will need to be open and flexible with these last minute changes, communicating them promptly to your team.
SAP experience will be an advantage as the site is a fully integrated ERP environment.
As a high profile manager you will be a role model to many others and ultimately, we want our people to align with, and resonate the Refresco Values as we believe these are what have made us, and will continue to make us, successful.
Find out more about our Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
Reward & Benefits
The salary for this role is dependent on experience. We offer an annual bonus incentive and a good company pension scheme, personal private healthcare, 3 x basic salary life assurance plus 25 days paid holiday. We have free on-site parking at the site.
We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling - https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/ - as well as Perkbox – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks and wellbeing tools for all employees - https://www.perkbox.com/uk
About Refresco
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks and we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and invested £1.25 billion in expanding our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 13 billion litres from 78 manufacturing plants in 13 countries and we’re only just getting started…
Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1600 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsburys, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacture for branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards and deliver them where they need to be at the right time.
Refresco are an equal opportunities employer and we apply fairness and transparency for all within our recruitment process.
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