Elevation Recruitment Group
Warehouse Operations Manager
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Warehouse Operations Manager
Location: Erith
Salary: £50,000 - £58,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Are you an experienced Warehouse Operations Manager with a proven track record of leading operational change? Do you thrive in complex distribution environments and enjoy bringing structure, consistency, and performance to fast-moving operations?
About the Role
Elevation Recruitment Group are partnering exclusively with a growing industrial business to recruit a Warehouse Operations Manager for a key leadership role within its expanding UK operation. This is an exciting opportunity to join a business backed by a major global organisation, with significant investment and ambitious growth plans. You'll play a pivotal role in leading a major site transition while helping shape the future operating model across the wider UK network.
What's on Offer:
- Annual bonus of up to 20%
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Free on-site parking
- Monday-Friday working pattern
- The opportunity to join a business undergoing significant transformation, offering genuine career progression as the UK operation continues to grow
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Key Responsibilities
Reporting into senior leadership, you'll take responsibility for leading operational performance during a key period of transition, supporting the successful relocation of operations while maintaining service, safety, and customer performance.
Working across multiple locations during the transition, you'll collaborate with operational, transport, and planning teams to ensure a seamless move, embed consistent ways of working, and help build a scalable operation for future growth.
Key responsibilities of the Warehouse Operations Manager include:
- Leading day-to-day warehouse operations across a changing operational landscape
- Supporting the successful transition of operations into a new distribution facility
- Driving consistency, operational standards, and best practice across multiple sites
- Leading process improvements and supporting the implementation of more efficient warehouse systems and ways of working
- Working cross-functionally to maintain customer service throughout periods of operational change
- Managing performance, productivity, and continuous improvement initiatives within a fast-paced environment
- Acting as a visible, hands-on leader, building engagement and maintaining momentum throughout the transition
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We're looking for someone with:
- Proven experience in an Operations Manager, Warehouse Manager, or Site Leadership role within warehousing or distribution
- Experience leading operational change, site relocations, business transformation, or multi-site operations
- A background within industrial distribution, manufacturing, engineering, logistics, or similarly complex operational environments
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across multiple functions
- A practical, hands-on leadership style with the confidence to make decisions in a fast-moving environment
- Resilience, adaptability, and the ability to balance operational delivery with long-term improvement
If you're looking for a role where you can lead a major operational transition, influence the future direction of a growing business, and make a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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