Marks and Spencer
Distribution Team Manager - Wk 2 Nights
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Our Castle Donington Distribution Centre
Our Castle Donington Distribution Centre is fast, flexible, agile, and ever-evolving to support the growth of our online business as we increase its efficiency to accommodate higher volumes of customer orders.
Are you someone who loves to take the lead and relishes responsibility?
Then we have a great opportunity for a Operations Team Manager on Week Wk 2 Nights to join our Outbound Chamber.
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As a Team Manager, your role will be to lead and empower our colleagues, by utilising your leadership, coaching, and development skills. Your focus will be on delivering the right products to the right places at the right time for our M&S customers while ensuring a safe, supportive, and high-performing work environment for your team.
Our site Team Managers on Nights work a two-week rolling shift rota averaging 40.25 hours per week, with 4 shifts in one week and 3 in the next, including alternate weekend working. For guidance, the start and finish times are circa 17:30 to 6:00, but this does vary slightly dependent on area.
NB: To apply, you will be required to upload a copy of your current CV. Then, shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a short online video interview. Successful candidates will be invited to face-to-face assessment on site.
What You’ll Do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Proactively managing people issues (including Wellbeing, absence, talent, and performance management). Ensuring consistent application of policy and advice
- Actively promoting colleague engagement ensuring colleagues feel valued and supported
- Managing operational processes to improve the opportunity for productivity
- Supporting Shift Managers in planning, managing, and adjusting staffing levels during the shift. Aligned with planned and flexed volumes to support the delivery of site Key Performance Indicators as defined by customer requirements
- Driving a positive culture of health and safety through leading by example and following the standard process requirements
- Driving cross-functional working as one team to ensure the delivery of site targets, working at every stage to exceed customer expectation
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Who You Are
We are looking for individuals who have experience leading teams and providing them with clear direction through proactive engagement.
- Able to use data to inform commercially focused decisions.
- They will need to be proactive, self-starters who thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Who understands the impact of commercial decisions both on the site and on other areas of the business. While maintaining their focus on our external and internal customer requirements for quality, efficiency, and accuracy
- In addition, they will need a flexible approach to work and be willing and able to adjust to the demands of a changing and agile environment
What’s in it for you?
Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value, and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving, and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
- 25% night shift premium for all hours worked between 10pm and 6am
- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption, and neonatal leave
- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you
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We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re reinventing, innovating, and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re redefining how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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