MRO SERVICE LOGISTICS MANAGER – Renewable Energy Sector
“Maintenance & Repair Operations Service Logistics Manager to manage national warehouse, logistics and supply chain operation for global market leader within renewable energy.”

C£40-45000 (DOE) + Vehicle + Excellent Benefits

Inverness, Highlands, Scotland

Our client is a global market leader and innovator within the renewable energy sector.   

As their customer base continues to increase in the UK, they are seeking to appoint a highly accomplished MRO Service Logistics Manager to take the lead at their new national warehouse, logistics and supply chain operation located in Inverness.  The objective is to deliver excellence in service in relation to maintenance contracts throughout the UK.   The national warehouse/DC supports a nationwide network of service centres and service technicians with critical parts, consumables and equipment to ensure uninterrupted service and supply to their demanding customer base, utilising a specialist courier and parts delivery partner.  In addition, our client offers express freight for urgent/critical repair parts.

The Role:
As MRO Service Logistics Manager, you will report to a Director who is remotely located at HO.  Therefore, you will take the strategic and operational lead for the national warehouse/DC in Inverness and will have complete autonomy for the team, performance and delivery of time critical parts, consumables and equipment in line with contractual maintenance and service level agreements.

This role will suit a graduate calibre warehousing, logistics and supply chain professional who has experience across forecasting, inventory control, warehouse pick, pack and despatch, procurement of consumables and non-OEM parts, project management and continuous improvement.  This experience must have been gained within a time critical service logistics operation. Experience of SAP including the warehouse management and materials management module will be highly advantageous. Familiarity with the concepts and application of Lean, Six Sigma and 5s will be essential in order to project manage the development, expansion and improvement of national warehouse/DC operational performance in terms of cost and efficiency.  

You will manage a small, dedicated team of warehouse, inventory and materials management colleagues including a Team Leader.   You will also undertake local sourcing and procurement of consumables and non-OEM parts, working closely with a local buying consortium.  You will also liaise with cross functional colleagues and stakeholders internally and externally, to analyse, forecast and plan demand for OEM parts from Europe, ensuring excellent inventory control and supply availability.  In addition, you will plan the national transport and delivery strategy to ensure 100% Service Centre supply on time in full so that Service Technicians can deliver contractual maintenance and repair operations.

The Ideal Person:
•    Graduate calibre candidate.
•    Excellent experience in time critical MRO service logistics operations.
•    This must include experience of forecasting and planning, sourcing and procurement, inventory control, warehousing and logistics pick, pack and despatch, transport/express courier and freight planning.
•    SAP experience especially SAP warehouse management and materials management modules will be highly advantageous.
•    A demonstrable track record of successfully managing, motivating and developing a warehouse, inventory and materials management team will be essential.  
•    You will instil excellence in terms of health and safety behaviours, operational performance and cost control.
•    Ability to strategically and operationally plan and deploy strategies for supply, warehousing, inventory and transport/distribution in a time critical service logistics environment.
•    Strong project management skills including previous continuous improvement initiatives deploying lean six sigma techniques and tools including 5S.
•    Comfortable and confident operating autonomously at a location remote from HO.
•    Ambitious and keen to make a difference to a growing highly service level MRO operation.

In return our client offers a excellent salary and benefits package.  To apply without delay, please email your CV quoting reference  LX 509717 to applications@martinveasey.com.  Interviews will held in Inverness during the first week of December with a view to the successful candidate commencing in early 2021.

OPERATIONS DIRECTOR – GROCERY RETAIL LOGISTICS OPERATIONS

“3PL Grocery Retail Logistics operations.  A fantastic opportunity for experienced grocery logistics professional with excellent multi-site, grocery retail DC operations management expertise to take the lead on high profile retail account”

£Competitive + Car Allowance + Bonus + Benefits

Actual Job Location: Thailand     Relocation Assistance Available

Our client is one of the world’s most successful third party logistics service providers with an impressive portfolio of blue chip multinational accounts across a range of industry sectors. 

This role is a high profile one, taking the lead in the further development and optimisation of multi –site logistics operations for one of Thailand’s largest grocery retailers.

As an experienced Grocery Logistics Distribution Centre Operations/General Manager/Operations Director, ideally with both 3PL and in-house experience, you will work closely with the client and will take the strategic and operational lead for multiple, semi-automated DC’s in the Bangkok area. You will be responsible for strategic growth, operational development and performance covering both warehousing and transport logistics operations. You will also be responsible for delivering an operational excellence programme across the account.   You will also continue to engage and develop an excellent commercial key account focused, client relationship at VP level.  The focus will be on the further development and growth of the business, against a stringent SLA and challenging KPI’s.  You will lead, coach and develop your team of DC General Managers to create a best in class and high performing country operation.

To succeed in this role, you will be university degree educated, and will perhaps have benefitted from an in-depth management development programme either with a large 3PL or a food/grocery retailer.  This will have encompassed a series of operational leadership roles covering both warehousing and transport (including acquisition of a CPC) interspersed with project work culminating in your current or most recent senior operational role, running either one or several large scale multi temperature FMCG retail NDCs or RDCs employing at least 900-1000 + staff, as a DC GM/Regional Manager or Director.  

Your 3PL experience will have included extensive contract account management and client stakeholder engagement.  Either in house or within a 3PL you will have built upon your project management and continuous improvement skills to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. You may already have been involved in new site openings, through to large scale physical and systems redesigns.  This will all have been achieved whilst ensuring that operations remain fully functional delivering high levels of accuracy and on time delivery within a retail DC.

You will be strategic and commercially minded, with experience of shaping strategic plans and implementing cost saving initiatives in complex, large retail FMCG operations. You will possess a track record of operational excellence focused on large multi-site manual and semi-automated warehousing and logistics operations utilising lean CI. You will be experienced in coaching and leading teams through numerous periods of change and growth, producing high performing teams. You will be ambitious, with a track record of successful performance improvement and results delivery, as you build your expertise in this exciting role, to eventually take on a senior executive leadership role at VP level in a developing international market. 

The ideal applicant will be university degree educated perhaps in logistics or business or engineering. You will be a high energy, resilient person, with a warm personality and a real passion for developing people and driving a logistics business to succeed.  Your talent and development reviews to date will already have earmarked you as a high potential talent.   

From an operational perspective you must be adept at running a retail warehousing pick pack and despatch operation as well as a multi drop primary and secondary transport function.  In terms of budgetary responsibility my client’s business is big - in the range of £60 million plus revenue so your financial management and planning skills will be excellent. Your attention to detail, self-control and drive will be of the highest levels.  You will be comfortable persuading, influencing and presenting at both shop floor and director level internally and externally to the client.  

Previous experience of working abroad or extended periods of travel to the Far East or other developing markets will be highly advantageous, but not a prerequisite, however you will need to be able to quickly adapt to a different cultural style and your personal people management and leadership approach will be one that respects loyalty and engenders trust whilst remaining highly results driven and focused on success.  In return our client offers a competitive salary (low tax) and benefits such as car, bonus, pension, healthcare and fantastic career development.   Relocation assistance will be provided including short term rental support and school fees.

To apply without delay and for a confidential discussion, please send your CV in word format, quoting reference LX 482799 for the attention of Roheela Khan to applications@martinveasey.com  Telephone 00 44 (0) 1905 381 320 www.martinveasey.com