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General Manager - Automotive Logistics
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Mawrth 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Up to £85,000 plus car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 Ebrill 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Appleby Magna |
| Cwmni: | Unipart Group |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 1418 |
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General Manager – Automotive Logistics
DE12 8AA – Appleby Magna
Up to £85,000 plus car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and
flexible benefits scheme
About the Job
Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You’ll have an important part to play in automotive
success that spans nearly 50 years. Unipart secured the contract to run the new, custom-built Jaguar Land Rover Global Parts
Logistics Centre at Appleby Magna in Leicestershire, at the new Mercia Park campus, one of the largest UK warehouse developments
for a single customer.
As General Manager you will deliver world-class standards in cost, quality, and delivery and you will focus on activity in support
of our strategic growth and development. You will be fully accountable for the performance and management of warehouse operations
and will have the opportunity to define, plan, manage, and sustain organisation and operational change and transformation projects
that will truly make a difference.
A full ‘360’ role, you will manage all aspects of the Distribution Centre covering inbound and outbound processing, warehouse
management, distribution management, internal quality control, returns processing and stock integrity, safety, budget, Unipart
Way, and compliance.
General Manager Responsibilities:
* Responsible for compliance with health and safety regulations and quality standards
* Take the lead driving and embedding sustainability actions on your site(s) in support of our commitment to become carbon
neutral by 2030, and our pledge to reach 'carbon net zero' by 2050 or sooner
* Ensure ‘The Unipart Way’ is implemented and embedded across the site and use the principles to ensure operational excellence
* Drive the adoption and use of digital applications and automated solutions to support and embed our Warehouse of the Future
vision
* Embed a culture of employee engagement across the site; where the site is considered to be exemplary
* Manage Senior Operations Managers - and their direct reports
* Ensure that resource skills and levels are consistent with medium and long-term business plans
* Overall accountability for operational performance to Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators
* It will be your responsibility to ensure that the operating budget is set and managed within targets
* Overall accountability for compliance with legal and ethical people management practice
* Responsible for effective two-way communication processes with team, customer, and suppliers
About You:
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this
role!
* Experience at operating at a senior level in a 3PL environment
* Proven ability to manage a team to deliver the required standards and performance
* Solid experience in defining, planning, managing and sustaining both organisation and operational change and transformation
projects
* Resilience in ability to work under pressure in a challenging and constantly changing environment, evidenced by previous
experience in a fast changing, volume driven working and customer environment
* Commercial acumen to understand, challenge, and manage financial decision making
* Clear leadership skills, to inspire with energy and passion within and across Senior Leaders and their teams
* Proven effective relationships with client / customer
* Flexibility and ability to deal with change
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of
opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the
grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or
civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected
characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment
which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of
yourself and do your best work every day.
General Manager – Automotive Logistics
DE12 8AA – Appleby Magna
Up to £85,000 plus car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and
flexible benefits scheme
About the Job
Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You’ll have an important part to play in automotive
success that spans nearly 50 years. Unipart secured the contract to run the new, custom-built Jaguar Land Rover Global Parts
Logistics Centre at Appleby Magna in Leicestershire, at the new Mercia Park campus, one of the largest UK warehouse developments
for a single customer.
As General Manager you will deliver world-class standards in cost, quality, and delivery and you will focus on activity in support
of our strategic growth and development. You will be fully accountable for the performance and management of warehouse operations
and will have the opportunity to define, plan, manage, and sustain organisation and operational change and transformation projects
that will truly make a difference.
A full ‘360’ role, you will manage all aspects of the Distribution Centre covering inbound and outbound processing, warehouse
management, distribution management, internal quality control, returns processing and stock integrity, safety, budget, Unipart
Way, and compliance.
General Manager Responsibilities:
* Responsible for compliance with health and safety regulations and quality standards
* Take the lead driving and embedding sustainability actions on your site(s) in support of our commitment to become carbon
neutral by 2030, and our pledge to reach 'carbon net zero' by 2050 or sooner
* Ensure ‘The Unipart Way’ is implemented and embedded across the site and use the principles to ensure operational excellence
* Drive the adoption and use of digital applications and automated solutions to support and embed our Warehouse of the Future
vision
* Embed a culture of employee engagement across the site; where the site is considered to be exemplary
* Manage Senior Operations Managers - and their direct reports
* Ensure that resource skills and levels are consistent with medium and long-term business plans
* Overall accountability for operational performance to Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators
* It will be your responsibility to ensure that the operating budget is set and managed within targets
* Overall accountability for compliance with legal and ethical people management practice
* Responsible for effective two-way communication processes with team, customer, and suppliers
About You:
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this
role!
* Experience at operating at a senior level in a 3PL environment
* Proven ability to manage a team to deliver the required standards and performance
* Solid experience in defining, planning, managing and sustaining both organisation and operational change and transformation
projects
* Resilience in ability to work under pressure in a challenging and constantly changing environment, evidenced by previous
experience in a fast changing, volume driven working and customer environment
* Commercial acumen to understand, challenge, and manage financial decision making
* Clear leadership skills, to inspire with energy and passion within and across Senior Leaders and their teams
* Proven effective relationships with client / customer
* Flexibility and ability to deal with change
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of
opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the
grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or
civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected
characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment
which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of
yourself and do your best work every day.