Despatch Manager
| Posting date: | 01 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Location: | Droitwich Dairy, WR9 0LW |
| Company: | Müller UK & Ireland |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 99197-43622055 |
Summary
Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 24,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,700 British farmers. The Müller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.
Contract: Full Time / Permanent
Salary: Competitive
Hours: 40 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
Location: Droitwich
We are recruiting for a Despatch Manager at our Droitwich Dairy site. The purpose of the job is to develop a culture of aspiration and excellence to enable the site to deliver the OGSM. Embed Muller excellence and deliver high performance through PMS principles and KPI management. Collaboratively work with cross functions and maintain industry relationships to maximise performance and identify synergies.
Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Site responsibility for all chilled outbound product
- Butter, PLFM, Cream and Milk
- Support preparation of annual budget following GO principles and in line with timescales set. Monitor and investigate significant deviations for all areas of ownership
- Lead change and projects effectively through high level problem solving capability and facilitations skills
- Create a culture and enable team to create and deliver OE opportunities, improving the way we do things focussing on value, customer service and best practice.
- Responsible for contingency planning and incident control
- Demonstrate health and safety leadership and commitment through embedding the Muller safety culture, promoting engagement across all levels.
- Accountable and ownership of actions
- Responsible for process confirmation, legal and audit compliance
- Demonstrate leadership capability through strong coaching, mentoring and people management skills that enables their team to deliver high performing results
- People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues
- Creating succession pathways both up through and across organisation to enable potential and growth
- Promotes and instils MMI behaviours across all levels of the function
Skills and Experience:
- In depth despatch knowledge
- Strong knowledge of Opex tools/techniques
- Experience in FMCG manufacturing
Benefits
- Up to 15% yearly bonus
- Company car allowance included
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
- Life assurance at 4x your annual salary
- 33 days holiday per year
- Health care cash plan
- Access to 1000s of reward via the Muller Rewards platform
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Contract: Full Time / Permanent
Salary: Competitive
Hours: 40 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
Location: Droitwich
We are recruiting for a Despatch Manager at our Droitwich Dairy site. The purpose of the job is to develop a culture of aspiration and excellence to enable the site to deliver the OGSM. Embed Muller excellence and deliver high performance through PMS principles and KPI management. Collaboratively work with cross functions and maintain industry relationships to maximise performance and identify synergies.
Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Site responsibility for all chilled outbound product
- Butter, PLFM, Cream and Milk
- Support preparation of annual budget following GO principles and in line with timescales set. Monitor and investigate significant deviations for all areas of ownership
- Lead change and projects effectively through high level problem solving capability and facilitations skills
- Create a culture and enable team to create and deliver OE opportunities, improving the way we do things focussing on value, customer service and best practice.
- Responsible for contingency planning and incident control
- Demonstrate health and safety leadership and commitment through embedding the Muller safety culture, promoting engagement across all levels.
- Accountable and ownership of actions
- Responsible for process confirmation, legal and audit compliance
- Demonstrate leadership capability through strong coaching, mentoring and people management skills that enables their team to deliver high performing results
- People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues
- Creating succession pathways both up through and across organisation to enable potential and growth
- Promotes and instils MMI behaviours across all levels of the function
Skills and Experience:
- In depth despatch knowledge
- Strong knowledge of Opex tools/techniques
- Experience in FMCG manufacturing
Benefits
- Up to 15% yearly bonus
- Company car allowance included
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
- Life assurance at 4x your annual salary
- 33 days holiday per year
- Health care cash plan
- Access to 1000s of reward via the Muller Rewards platform
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