Warehouse Manager

Are you looking for a short-term leadership role? Do you have experience managing warehouse operations and driving efficiency? Lead the final phase of our site’s operations, ensuring a smooth and structured closure!

We are currently recruiting for a Warehouse Manager to lead our team at our AkzoNobel site in Goole. As the warehouse transitions to closure, you’ll oversee day-to-day operations, ensuring efficiency, safety, and compliance. With strategic management of colleagues, equipment, and tasks, you’ll maintain high performance in key areas such as health and safety, workforce productivity, commercial effectiveness, and KPI achievement, driving results through to the final stage of operations.

This role is being offered on a temporary, fixed-term contract ending July 2026.

Working Monday – Friday between the hours of 08:30 – 16:30, you will be ensuring the smooth running of the warehouse operation, providing ongoing support and development to keep in line with the agreed budget and service targets.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £49,000.00 per annum (dependant on experience) and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes flexible dental insurance plans, a company sponsored pension scheme, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

Overall responsibility for the Warehouse function, whilst managing and leading a performance driven team

Management of legal and operational compliance for the department

Management, control and reporting of all costs, KPIs and operational statistics within budget

Effective communication with the customer and internal colleagues

Workforce planning and effective resourcing to cope with picking volumes

Challenge current practices through the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiencies and effectively manage costs

What you need to succeed at GXO:

Previous warehouse management experience, ideally from working in a similar fast-moving and customer-focused environment

Commercial and financial awareness, including budgeting

Level 5 Leadership & Management qualification is preferred. IOSH qualification is essential

Ability to work to strict deadlines, be able to prioritise and make decisions under pressure

Reporting and presenting skills

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GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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