Location: Brighouse, West Yorkshire
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Reporting to: Operations Director
Salary: £45,000 – £50,000
The company is an importer, distributor, and brand builder of world-class beers from Europe, the USA, and Japan. They work closely with independent brewers and a diverse customer base including bar owners, pub groups, wholesalers, restaurateurs, and major retailers.
Role Overview
The Warehouse Manager is responsible for the safe, efficient, and compliant day-to-day operation of the National Distribution Centre. Reporting to the Operations Director, the role translates operational plans and priorities into consistent site-level execution, ensuring service levels, cost control, and people standards are delivered within a fast-paced FMCG distribution environment. This role plays a key part in enabling short-term performance excellence and long-term efficiency improvements across the warehouse operation.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Leadership
•Lead and manage all daily warehouse activities including goods-in, stock control, replenishment, picking, repacking, loading, returns, samples, POS, and glassware.
•Ensure process disciplines, working standards, and operational controls are consistently applied across all warehouse activities.
•Plan and prioritise labour resources across daily and weekly peaks in collaboration with the Operations Director and Assistant Warehouse Manager, escalating risk, constraints, or service impacts as appropriate.
•Work closely with the Transport Manager to align warehouse output with transport plans and delivery schedules.
People Management & Culture
•Lead, coach, and develop warehouse colleagues to create a high-performance culture focused on engagement, accountability, safety, and continuous improvement.
•Manage performance, attendance, and development plans ensuring clear expectations, regular feedback, and capability development across the warehouse team.
•Supporting teams through operational and systems change.
Continuous Improvement
•Taking a ‘right-first-time’ approach, drive process improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, accuracy, space utilisation, and service performance. Use data and root-cause analysis to identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
•Support the implementation and optimisation of Warehouse Management System (WMS) and site layout improvements ensuring solutions practical, scalable, and aligned to operational needs.
•Apply sound judgement when balancing process complexity, system configuration, and cost-benefit considerations, escalating recommendations where investment decisions are required.
Resource Planning & Cost Control
•Plan labour and equipment resources in line with forecast volumes and operational priorities.
•Use a data driven mindset to improve labour efficiency and cost control.
•Minimise waste, damages, and rework while maintaining high service level standards.
Training & Capability
•Ensure all warehouse colleagues are capability assessed and appropriately trained for their roles, including inductions, system training, and equipment training.
•Review training needs regularly to ensure skills, certifications, and compliance remain current.
Health, Safety & Compliance
•Lead a Health & Safety culture where safety is seen as something we do for our people.
•Promote open reporting of hazards, near-misses, and unsafe behaviours, treating these as opportunities to learn, improve, and prevent harm.
•Chair Health & Safety meetings, and lead incident and near-miss investigation, ensuring effective Health & Safety training across the warehouse in line with group Health & Safety policies and expectations set by the Operations Director.
•Ensure compliance with FLT operations, daily equipment checks, defect reporting, and safe working practices
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
•Proven warehouse management experience within FMCG or fast-moving distribution environments.
•Strong people leadership experience within a changing or improving operation.
•Demonstrated experience delivering continuous improvement and operational excellence.
•Experience supporting WMS implementation or optimisation is highly desirable.
•Strong planning, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
•Effective communicator with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders.
Hours & Conditions
•Warehouse operating hours: 06:00 – 22:00
•Management flexibility required to meet business needs
•Monthly paid salary
•Annual holiday entitlement: 28 days per year (accrued monthly).
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
•Pick productivity (Cases or KG per Hour)
•Order Pick Accuracy (%)
•On-Time-In-Full (OTIF)
•Labour Cost vs Budget
•Stock Accuracy
•Health & Safety Performance
•Absence and Attrition
For further information please submit your CV and covering letter. Unity Personnel are acting as a Recruitment Agency in respect of this role
Salary description
£45000.00 - £50000.00 per year