Do you thrive on leading high-performing teams in a fast-paced warehouse environment? Are you passionate about driving operational excellence while keeping safety and people at the heart of everything you do? Do you enjoy taking ownership, making decisions, and delivering results through strong leadership on the shop floor? If so, we would love to hear from you.
Here at GXO, we’re looking for a Warehouse Shift Manager (Nights) to join our Primark site in Thrapston. In this role, you’ll take full ownership of the end-to-end warehouse operation on shift, leading a team of First Line Managers and colleagues to deliver exceptional service to our customer. You’ll play a key role in driving performance, embedding a strong safety-first culture, and fostering a highly engaged, accountable team. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you’ll also contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and help shape the future of the operation through proactive leadership and decision-making.
This is a full time permanent position working a shift pattern of any 5 out of 7, with hours of 21:00 to 06:00
Pay, benefits and more:
We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £42,500.00 and 33 days annual leave (inc bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, 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:
- Lead and inspire FLMs and teams to achieve and exceed KPIs across safety, service and cost
- Take ownership of shift KPIs, ensuring service, cost and productivity targets are achieved
- Drive a safety-first culture, ensuring full compliance with Environmental, Health & Safety standards
- Champion continuous improvement, using SOPs and CI tools to eliminate waste and improve processes
- Manage resource planning, workflow and headcount to maximise efficiency and control spend
- Build an engaged team culture through visible leadership, clear communication and effective shift handovers
What you need to succeed at GXO:
- Previous management experience within a fast-paced warehouse or logistics environment
- Proven experience leading leaders, with strong people management and engagement skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on performance improvement
- A proactive, flexible and results-driven approach, with the ability to work under pressure
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills at all levels
We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.
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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