Warehouse Planning Manager
| Posting date: | 25 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £45,900 to £58,650 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Excellent Plus Benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 October 2024 |
| Location: | St Helens, WA8 3XJ |
| Company: | Home Bargains |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | NS/GZH/OMEGA/WPM/0924/GFM |
Summary
As a Warehouse Planning Manager at our cutting-edge Omega Distribution Centre, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the efficient flow of volume demand throughout the facility, optimising the Distribution Centre’s operations to meet business goals. Located in the Omega Business Park, just off Junction 8 of the M62, this brand-new automated warehouse is a pioneering facility in the UK, set to revolutionise how we handle and distribute goods.
You will work closely with the Warehouse Operations Manager and collaborate with the Production & Performance Manager to analyse data, drive continuous improvement opportunities, and optimise the warehouse's throughput. In this role, you will also engage with the Warehouse Management and Network Planning Teams to ensure that volume and resource plans align with operational needs.
Additionally, you will manage relationships with the Buying Team to improve product presentation and with HR to coordinate recruitment and training strategies for a workforce of approximately 600 FTEs. This includes managing our agency partners to ensure the supply of temporary labour meets performance KPIs and SLAs.
Package- 40 hours per week
- Any 5 days from 7 including weekends
- Day shift
- 5.6 weeks paid holiday per year including bank and public holiday allowance rising to 6.6 weeks upon 5 years' service
- Contributable Company pension scheme
Employee benefits
- MyHB employee benefits platform with access to:
- Retail and leisure discounts plus hundreds more
- Free Financial Advice
- Bank your savings into an ISA
- 24/7 confidential counselling and advice line
- Low cost voluntary insured health plans
- Onsite canteen
- 10% store discount
- Free car parking
- Death in Service Benefit (subject to 12 months complete service)
- Long Service recognition scheme
- Volume Flow Planning: Effectively plan and manage the flow of product volumes in and out of the Distribution Centre, ensuring smooth operations and maximised throughput. Collaborate closely with the Warehouse and Network Planning Teams to align these plans with current and future operational needs.
- Inbound Product Management: Oversee the inbound product flow, ensuring all goods meet the required standards to support the automation systems' capacity. Liaise with the Buying Team to enhance product presentation and packaging to ensure optimal flow through automation.
- Labour and Resource Planning: Create and manage daily and weekly labour plans across all DC functions, ensuring adequate staffing levels that meet both short-term and long-term volume demands. This includes working with the HR Business Partner on recruitment and training plans, and managing agency partners to meet temporary labour requirements.
- Team Management and Development: Set objectives, manage performance, and support the development of your team, including the Goods-In Admin Team and the Training Lead, ensuring they are fully equipped to meet operational goals.
- Performance Reporting: Provide daily and weekly KPI reporting on Distribution Centre efficiency, identifying areas for improvement. Collaborate with the Operations Manager and the Production & Performance Manager to leverage data insights for continuous improvement.
- Cross Functional Collaboration: Engage with various teams, including the Production & Performance Manager, to identify and resolve operational challenges. Work closely with the Buying Team, Warehouse, and Network Planning Teams to ensure alignment of volume, resource, and operational goals.
- Temporary Labour Management: Oversee the management of temporary labour through agency partners, ensuring that they perform in line with agreed KPIs and SLAs.
- Product Flow Optimisation: Engage with WITRON and other key automation partners to continuously improve product flow through the automated systems.
- Extensive experience in planning and managing volume flows and resources within a high-volume, fast paced warehouse or distribution centre environment.
- Strong knowledge of supply chain operations, with a focus on automation systems and volume planning.
- Experience managing large teams and cross functional collaboration.
- Proven ability to identify operational challenges and implement data driven improvements.
- Excellent communication, organisation, and leadership skills.
- Proficiency in labour scheduling systems (e.g. UKG Dimensions/Kronos) is desirable.
TJ Morris Limited trading as Home Bargains is a privately owned family run discount retailer selling top brands at the lowest possible price on the UK high street.
Having started 45 years ago in Liverpool our customers continue to be at the heart of everything we do and throughout our 580 stores we have over 5 million customers each week.
With plans to increase our store portfolio to 1,000 stores throughout the UK we are a fast-paced retailer opening 50 stores a year (nearly one every weekend) - and we wouldn't have it any other way!