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Job Title: Warehouse Supervisor (Days)
Location: Unit 7a, Odhams Trading Estate, St Albans Road, Watford, WD24 7RY
Salary: Competitive.
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Working Hours: 40 hours per week (09:00 to18:00) with a 60 minutes lunch break.
Main purpose of role:
To manage the warehouse days team effectively to ensure that all goods are moved in and out of our warehouse effectively and efficiently in accordance with operational compliance to deliver a world class service for our customers.
To ensure that Health and Safety requirements are strictly adhered to, training and development needs for the team are incorporated into your daily objectives. Support with recruitment needs alongside the operations senior management team.
About us:
Vegetarian Express specialise in delivering plant-based ingredients, ideas and inspiration to chefs across the UK for eating out of home. With the astronomical rise in popularity of plant-based, vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, Vegetarian Express are uniquely placed in Foodservice to meet with this demand, and as such are rapidly growing and expanding.
Nationally we supply more than 4,000 skilled chefs from customers such as Compass, Baxterstorey and CH&Co, as well as a ton of Independent operators and events such as The Chelsea Flower Show, Wimbledon and Wembley Stadium to name just a few.
Vegetarian Express work with customers to create plant-based menus that are enticing, better for consumers health, the planet and commercially for businesses.
Vegetarian Express are proud to be a certified B Corporation. This means they are part of a growing number of progressive businesses around the world that truly believe in the power of business to do good things and, more importantly, are doing something about it.
Key responsibilities:
- To ensure that the team deliver a fully comprehensive goods in stock management process to enable a seamless order capture and service delivery to our customers.
- To ensure the team follow the relevant pick sheets/goods in sheets ensuring stock accuracy. All paperwork provided by the supplier is to ensure financial compliance and adhere to food safety standards.
- To ensure the team deal with the receipt of, handling of, and dispatch of products into and out of our warehouse in accordance with our procedures.
- To follow the correct procedures ensuring that safe working practices are followed aligned to Health and Safety guidelines.
- To ensure that products are picked by the team for customers orders, correctly packed and dispatched to the customers on the correct date and that the relevant paperwork is completed and procedures followed.
- To supervise the team to ensure that fresh and ambient stock is received in the correct specified condition (temperature, damages etc.), is put away in the correct location, booked in correctly in accordance with procedures and is rotated correctly.
- To supervise the team to keep all areas of the warehouse, fridges and coldstore to BRC accredited hygiene standards.
- To communicate with your manager and stock controllers if there are issues and problems as soon as possible to help make the resolution of issues easier.
- To carry out stock counts for the stock controllers and other counts as required on an ad-hoc basis.
- To suggest improvements to the company's purchasing, logistics and warehousing systems as appropriate and to implement agreed changes in systems and procedures.
- To undertake any other duties as appropriate within their competence as required by their line manager.
Salary & benefits:
- Dependant on experience
- Monthly performance related bonus
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays
- Option to purchase additional annual leave (up to 3 days)
- Cash health plan (money back for dentist, opticians, physio etc.)
- Life assurance (4 x salary)
- Staff discount on ALL products
- Pension (3% employer and 5% employee)
Candidate criteria:
Working Conditions and / or Physical Requirements;
- Normal distribution warehouse environment, so a reasonable degree of physical fitness required
Skills/competencies;
- Full UK driving licence
- Reach Truck Licence
- Fork Truck Licence
- Effective Listener
- Effective Communicator
- Approachable
- Capable of leading by example
- Customer focused
- Solution solver
- Good time management skills
Knowledge;
- Sage
- Warehouse management systems
- Microsoft applications
Experience Required;
- Minimum 2 years in a Warehouse Team Leader position
Personal qualities;
- Good Timekeeping
- Team player 'one team' approach
- Embraces diversity and change
Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Logistics Manager, Warehouse Manager, Distribution Centre Manager, will all be considered.
