At Gist, we're proud to be part of the M&S Group, the logistics engine behind M&S Food.
From our distribution centres to our transport operations and support functions, we connect people, technology and expertise to ensure the right products reach the right stores at the right time.
As we continue to invest in our people, technology and network, there's never been a more exciting time to join Gist and help shape the future of food logistics.
We have a fantastic new opportunity for a talented individual to join our team in Enfield as a Stock & Systems Manager. As a Stock & Systems manager you will manage the movements of stock in and out of the warehouse and subsequent systems. You will collaborate with the warehouse team and your admin team and act as the first point of contact for the customer, investigating issues and providing feedback on behalf of the Operational Managers. As an analytical and proactive individual, you'll possess a strong drive to implement better, more efficient processes. You’ll be a highly organised individual who can communicate across all levels of the business to ensure business critical messages are delivered accurately.
What’s in it for you?
Gist is an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and evolving business built on our core values. Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for Gist just that little bit more special.
- 20% M&S discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food
- Discounted rates on healthcare cash plan
- Attractive annual bonus scheme, based on M&S performance and personal objectives
- Auto Enrolment Pension or competitive Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and life assurance (up to 4 times salary)
- Amazing perks and discounts via our App to major restaurants and retailers
- Access to a wide range of wellbeing support – including our Employee Assistance Programme
- A first-class welcome with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development
- Cycle to work scheme
Role details:
Salary: Up to Up to £43,155 + £2,000 London Weighting per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Working pattern: Monday to Friday (A level of flexibility is expected to ensure effective operational coverage)
Location: Gist Limited, Enfield, EN3 7QP
What you’ll do:
- Champion the safety agenda daily
- Promote safe operating and warehouse standards
- Manage and conduct hygiene audits
- Maintaining a safe and friendly working environment for all employees, agency and subcontractors.
- Ensuring effective communication within the warehouse teams through meetings and briefings
- Build an engaged admin team
- Drive continuous improvement processes
- Forward planning of stock inventory
- Minimise stock adjustments through process improvement and colleague engagement
- Supporting the AGM with contract management at your site, which includes; Waste, Hygiene, security and catering day to day
- All customer communication and liaison for your site – supporting Operational Managers
- Understanding the customers organisational tree – identify and build the key relationships with the customer to establish and build the information from them
- Understand how all things stock impact on retail
- Ensure all requirements relating to safety, health, environment and quality are being fully implemented in the warehouse or escalate
Who you are:
- Thorough knowledge and hands on experience of a warehouse function within the FMCG Distribution Industry
- A background operating at a management level is a must
- Strong experience working with audits, compliance & business assurance
- Previous experience of working with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
- You'll come in to contact with Trade Unions (previous experience with this would be beneficial)
About Us
At Gist we are united by our core values; with safety and people at the heart of everything do, we are progressive, accountable, collaborative, and ethical.
Our objective is to establish a performance-focused environment that is fair and inclusive, where everyone can develop, and connect meaningfully to their manager, the Gist vision, and M&S. We are fiercely protective of everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing, and align firmly to M&S’s sustainability commitments in Plan A.
Gist will play an integral part in the M&S journey as it pushes boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring era. As part of the M&S group, there’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Join us and make an immediate impact.
Gist aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment. If it’s meaningful to you, it’s important to us.
Our Internal Recruitment Team fulfil all vacancies on a direct basis. Unsolicited contact by unapproved agencies (sharing speculative CVs) will not be accepted and introductory fees will not apply.
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