Shift Manager - Bicester

• Contract Type: Permanent / 40 Hours Per Week
• Salary: up to £40k plus Bonus
• Location: Bicester Depot 
• Days of Work: 5 from 7 to include weekends
• Hours of Work: 14:30 - 23:00

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst  ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service. You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of nearly £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible. Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!!!

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Shift Manager, to help strengthen our depot operations management team.

In this role you will be working closely with our Depot Management team to ensure your site is resourced correctly. This will involve planning staff numbers for self employed Owner Drivers (OD's) employed drivers, warehouse operatives and back office functions. Effective planning to cover the summer holiday period and Peak trading times will be critical. 

You will liaise with multiple areas of the business. This will include, Franchise, People and Talent, Recruitment, Neuven and Regional Management to maintain and enhance our outstanding service.

Other key accountabilities will be;

• Ensure depot targets for ODF (Franchisees) is achieved and that the mix of single route drivers and multi route drivers is kept to target.
• Ensure DR drivers are kept at a target of 1.5 DR's per route.
• Ensure that both the agency warehouse operative percentage vs employed warehouse operative resource is kept to target.
• Ensure that employed drivers including 7.5 Tonne resource is kept to target.
• Ensure that back office resources are kept to target.
• Ensure that holiday planning and peak resource plans are completed, communicated effectively and implemented.
• Ensure that all relevant documentation and systems are completed accurately and in line with company and/or legislative requirements
• Working to set Key Performance Indicators including Resource, Productivity, Transport and Health and Safety.

What we’re looking for​;

As the successful candidate you will have gained experience working within a fast paced and dynamic environment. Knowledge of the logistics or distribution industry would be advantageous. Previous experience or knowledge in people resource planning is preferred. We would also expect;

• The ability to engage and build effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels in a variety of formats
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Effective problem-solving skills.
• Ability to influence and negotiate effectively.
• High levels of resilience and self-motivation.
• Ability to work on your own initiative.
• Good levels of computer literacy with the ability to analyse data.

About our benefits:

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few…

• Holiday trading
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package 
• Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
• Free onsite car parking for all employees
• Health Kiosks visiting every location
• Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
• Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends 
• For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities. 

If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today.