Assistant Warehouse Manager

About us

We’re an award-winning, market-leading 3PL specialising in high-quality order fulfilment and delivery services. ILG customers are premium brands, many in the beauty, fashion and wellbeing sectors. Our mission is to help them succeed. ILG is a people business – we invest in training and development, recognising and rewarding our people’s achievements and creating opportunities for them to progress within our business.  So, if you want to further your career, learn from a friendly team and realise your full potential in a fast-growing company, this is the role for you.

The role

We are looking for an experienced Assistant Warehouse Manager to join us at our new 180k square foot facility in Brackmills. As an Assistant Warehouse Manager you are responsible for all Operational Management including, but not limited to, adherence to and improvement of SLAs, ensuring client satisfaction and ensuring labour is skilled and measured to achieve targets.
Other responsibilities include:

• Leading by example to ensure all Shift Managers, Section Managers and Team Leaders make decisions that create win-win situations for both labour control and client success
• Ensuring full compliance of Health & Safety and proactively managing risk
• Supporting the Warehouse Manager and Regional Manager to fully understand client challenges
• Working closely with the Sales and Implementation teams to make informed decisions of new business opportunities
• Ensuring staff training targets are upheld and taking full responsibility for talent management and succession planning
• Sharing best practice
• Building a strong team ethos within the warehouse and wider business
• Making cost-based decisions in line with ILGs growth strategy
• Conducting informative daily briefings to the team
• Deputising for the Warehouse Manager

What we are looking for

• Track record of warehouse management (preferably in a 3rd party logistics environment)
• Resilience in a fast-paced, multi contract, omnichannel (wholesale/retail and e-commerce) high volume environment
• Sound financial acumen
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Energy, vision and leadership with confident decision making
• Experience of working with high numbers of both permanent and temporary staff
• Experience of working with WMS software platforms
• A passion for managing and developing people with a high level of resilience
• Forward thinking with a solutions-based approach]
• Excellent attention to detail

Job Application Requirements – We welcome your application and look forward to considering you for this role. Please note the following important requirements for all applicants:

• Right to Work in the UK & Basic DBS Check – You must have the legal right to work in the UK, (we are not able to sponsor you). If successful, you will also need to pass a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before starting employment. We use a
third-party checking service for each of these, so you will need to provide them with relevant information if offered a role with us.
• References – We reserve the right to request two or more references, to cover the past five years of your employment history. Please ensure you can provide accurate contact details for each of your referees.
• English Language – You must be able to work in English; enough to fully understand spoken and written work instructions, follow health and safety guidance and participate in discussions with your manager or colleagues.

If you meet the role requirements, as well as the above, and are ready to take the next step in your career, we encourage you to apply.

Please be aware we will be considering applications as we receive them and arranging interviews accordingly. Depending on the volume of applications we receive we may close this advert ahead of the advertised closing date.