Job Description:

Why Greencore?
We're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better. Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
Our Exeter distribution depot serves convenience retailers and forecourts in the region.

What you'll be doing
To lead and direct a depot team to ensure operational standards are met and depots are developed to meet current and future business objectives
Working - Any 5 from 7 shift pattern

• Provide leadership and direction to the team to ensure that they are engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their potential
• Review labour requirements and availability to deploy cost effective plans, ensuring resource availability and capability aligns with business operating needs
• Direct daily operational practices to ensure that safety and compliance with group policy are critical priorities
• Ensure the facilities and all components and assets are maintained to ensure operational safety and efficiency
• Monitor the utilisation and maintenance of the transport fleet to ensure adherence to all agreed internal and legal standards
• Take first line management responsibility for all people management issues on site
• Oversee the execution of operational plans which control spend and ensure the correct and timely delivery of customer orders
• Ensure the team is adopting appropriate administrative procedures and reporting all necessary information to meet audit standards
• Monitor key performance indicator and budget performance to identify and implement continuous improvement programmes to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of pick, packing and loading of vehicles
• Provide practical support to the commercial team in building and sustaining commercial relationships and preparing the depot for changes in customer requirements
• Lead the implementation of local capex projects to ensure that new equipment or functionality is delivered on time and embedded in day to day working practices

What we're looking for
At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.
We're proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

• CPC Licence preferred
• Experience in managing safety in functional area e.g., Highfield Level 2
• Basic food hygiene certificate e.g., Highfield Level 1
• Understand the best practice processes for functional areas, like managing a transport operation
• Experience of managing budgets
• Understanding of Lean to identify and implement business improvement programmes
• Able to use Microsoft Office suite and other IT tools to record and report effectively
• Use of sector specific electronic management tools e.g., ISOTRAK and handheld technology

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date.
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