Warehouse manager

As warehouse manager, you will have the opportunity to develop improvement plans independently, as well as realise them. You take your team and the organisation along in change and development processes in a natural way. Are you up for the challenge?

About the role

As a warehouse manager in your own way, you know how to captivate and bind people and develop them further. Towards higher management, you do not let your guard down and you actively contribute to the policy to be implemented. Your higher goal is to achieve, together with the team, the right logistics service at the lowest possible cost.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring high safety standards and safety awareness within the Central Warehouse as well as continuous improvement thereof;
• Ensuring order and tidiness within the Central Warehouse;
• Ensuring adequate staff planning and staffing, both qualitatively and quantitatively, and actively maintaining contact with employment agency partners;
• Acting as the logistics hub towards the other Zijerveld locations and external warehouses and building and maintaining an active solution-oriented working relationship with these parties;
• Promote and further optimise effective cooperation between the various sub-departments within the Central Warehouse;
• Ensure a development-oriented culture of employees within the Central Warehouse and encourage, shape and guide it;
• Stimulating a positive work culture, high commitment as well as preventive absence management within the Central Warehouse;
• Creating a pleasant working atmosphere and providing room for employee growth and development.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Completed relevant HBO/WO education;
• Passionate, enthusiastic, solution-oriented and a healthy dose of persuasiveness Compassion for people and genuine interest in what moves people;
• Extensive knowledge of and working with ERP and logistics systems, such as WMS packages (Locus is an advantage);
• Knowledge of and experience with HACCP and other relevant quality systems;
• Can create a working smarter together mentality and has experience with implementing and applying Continues Improvement;
• Displays stimulating and motivating leadership to achieve excellent team performance and smooth cooperation;
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience as an warehouse manager;

Are you interested or curious about the possibilities? Then get in touch for an exploratory interview. Hope to speak to you soon!

Note: A thorough understanding of the Dutch language is mandatory