Warehouse Shift Manager – Back Shift
£42,500 - £56,500 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 5)
Back Shift (2pm to 10pm), 5 days over 7, every other weekend
Lea Green, WA9 5AU

We’re looking for a warehouse shift manager to join us at our Lea Green depot to look after all aspects of the warehouse operation during each back shift (2pm to 10pm). The role comes with an attractive salary and benefits package.

In this role, you’ll lead, develop, and engage a multi-skilled team of depot colleagues. You’ll have a team of 10 direct reports and up to 200 indirect reports. We’ll also look to you to drive health and safety within the depot and be responsible for controlling costs and delivering our colleague engagement programmes.

What you’ll do:

• Take ownership of the day-to-day running of the back shift
• Lead, engage, coach and develop a large team of warehouse colleagues and team managers
• Be responsible for maintaining the health and safety of your colleagues
• Make sure that key operational metrics, targets and budgets set for the shift are met, with an emphasis on performance management
• Build positive relationships with a range of internal and external partners, including 3rd party agencies, suppliers, and trade unions

The role would suit people who have:

• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Experience managing a large team within a complex, fast-paced environment
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail, with the ability to coordinate the workloads of yourself and your team
• Excellent relationship building skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams
• A passion for supporting and developing others

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
• YuLife app – rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.