Ferrero
Team Leader - Outbound Supply Chain
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
About the Role:
We’re looking for a Team Leader – Outbound Supply Chain to join our team in Alfreton and play a key role in ensuring the smooth and efficient flow of products through our outbound operation.
Acting as the important link between our warehouse colleagues and the Department Shift Manager, you’ll take ownership of an operational area and lead your team to deliver against daily requirements. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll be visible within the operation, supporting colleagues, managing priorities and ensuring products leave our warehouse safely, accurately and on time.
Main Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate the day-to-day activities of your team, ensuring the right people and skills are in place to meet outbound requirements.
- Manage labour effectively, support rota planning and ensure your team is trained, engaged and clear on their priorities, while coaching and developing colleagues to perform at their best.
- Maintain high standards across safety, quality, service and operational performance.
- Champion health and safety, food safety, hygiene and quality requirements within your area, supporting investigations and audits and ensuring all relevant training, compliance documentation and records are maintained accurately.
- Work closely with teams across Supply Chain, Quality and Health & Safety, helping to ensure stock moves accurately and efficiently through the outbound operation.
- Monitor stock accuracy, pick-list delivery and warehouse activity, identifying and resolving issues before they impact service or performance.
- Play an important role in driving continuous improvement across your area.
- Set the standard for how we work.
- Ensure clear communication between shifts, provide constructive feedback, support return-to-work processes and confidently manage day-to-day people matters to maintain a positive, collaborative and high-performing environment.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
This role requires flexibility to work across two different shift patterns to provide consistent leadership and support across the outbound operation.
About You:
- Previous experience supervising others or leading a small team within a warehouse, distribution, supply chain, manufacturing or similarly fast-paced operational environment.
- Confidence in balancing people leadership with operational delivery and comfortable making decisions when priorities change.
- Understanding of the importance of safety, quality, stock accuracy and delivering against service requirements within an outbound environment.
- Knowledge of warehouse processes, inventory control, picking and dispatch operations would be particularly valuable.
- Experience of lean working practices or continuous improvement would be an advantage.
- Approachable and confident leader who enjoys developing people and building strong working relationships.
- Comfortable monitoring performance, providing feedback and taking ownership of problems, while keeping your team focused on delivering a safe, efficient and reliable outbound operation.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
What We Offer:
Careers with caring built in - discover our benefits here.
About Ferrero:
Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com.
DE&I at Ferrero:
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.
Find out more here.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills