Director of Warehousing and Logistics

Location: Little Hulton, Greater Manchester.

4C Executive Placement are partnering with a long stablished textile business with over 140 years of history as they seek to appoint a Director of Warehousing and Logistics who will take full ownership of the company's end-to-end warehousing and logistics function, leading a transformation that delivers operational excellence, cost efficiency, and complete visibility of goods movement from supplier to customer.

With full autonomy to shape the function, the role holder will champion change, establish new standards, and drive accountability across all aspects of warehouse management, stock control, and logistics performance.

Reporting to the Managing Director, the Director of Warehousing and Logistics will collaborate with the wider leadership team and will drive an in-depth review and assessment of the company's current warehousing and logistics operations creating a business strategy which will drive efficiencies, mitigate risks, reduce cost, protect margins and deliver profitability.

The role holder will be a credible and strategic leader, someone who thrives when leading a multi-faceted team, supporting staff to achieve their best with a focus on team's professional development. With strong communication skills and robust commercial acumen, the Director of Warehousing and Logistics will also have the following qualifications and experience:

Significant experience in a senior role, with P&L ownership within a warehousing, logistics and/or supply chain management position, either in house or with a 3PL, ideally within the textile, homewares, or similar consumer goods industries.
Demonstrable successful experience of designing and implementing efficient and profitable warehousing strategy operations, ideally within a multi-site, multi dispatch environment.
Successful experience of leading, managing, and developing warehousing and logistics team coupled with experience of designing, rolling out and tracking KPIs, proactively addressing any deviances.
Demonstrable experience utilising warehousing and logistics systems to gather key data, identifying trends which will support decision making and will drive efficiency, reduce costs, protect margin and ultimately deliver profitability.
Proven experience managing large budgets, identifying cost saving and cost avoidance opportunities which protect margins and deliver profitability.

It is desirable that the candidate has experience of managing both in-house and 3PL warehousing and logistics operations.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business with a long history within their sector and be part of the next chapter of a remarkably successful story. If you believe you have the skills and drive to succeed in this role, we welcome your application. Alternatively, feel free to contact Pedro Torres at 4C Executive Placement for a confidential conversation.

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