Despatch Manager

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Burscough, West Lancashire, Lancashire, England
3-5 Years Experience
Design • Manufacturing
The Role
The Despatch Manager will oversee day-to-day operations of a 24/7 warehouse, ensuring safety standards and effective communication with hauliers. Responsibilities include managing a team of 27 staff, handling performance issues, tracking logistics, and managing pallet stocks and waste collections.
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About the role

DS Smith Packaging have an exciting opportunity for a Despatch Manager to join the team at our Burscough site. Working closely with the Production Manager, Supply Chain Manager and Production/Transport Planners, this role will be responsible for managing the day to day operations of a busy warehouse on behalf of a 24/7 site.

Key duties and responsibilities include:

  • Drive site safety culture.
  • Responsible for all safety, hygiene and housekeeping standards in all ware house and yard areas.
  • Daily communication with hauliers.
  • Manage a department of approximately 27 people, including overseeing performance, attendance and conduct matters.
  • Responsible for site security standards in all warehouse and yard areas.
  • Raising and tracking of purchase orders for third part logistics and pallets.
  • Manage the Transport cost spreadsheet, estimate and actual.
  • Management of pallet stocks on behalf of the site.
  • Manage collection/exchanges for all general, metal, wood, reel core and effluent waste.


About you

  • Previous experience managing a team
  • Previous experience managing/supervising a warehouse, ideally in Manufacturing
  • Strong Microsoft Office knowledge including Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
  • Working knowledge of SAP systems would be advantageous
  • Comfortable making decisions in a fast-paced, commercial environment
  • Good communication skills with the ability to solve problems alongside your colleagu
  • Able to manage multiple priorities and delegate effectively
  • Able to demonstrate our core values: caring, challenging, trusted, responsive, tenacious

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Site bonus
  • Pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
  • Salary sacrifice electric car scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Retail discounts
  • Digital GP service
  • Cycle to work scheme

Location: Burscough

About us

We’re DS Smith, the FTSE100 company who are redefining packaging for a changing world. We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. Today, we operate in more than 30 different countries, proudly employing over 30,000 people, and supporting customers across sectors like FMCG, industrial, and e-commerce. We deliver on quality, service, innovation, and added value to deliver market-leading sustainable packaging solutions our customers need. Our industry needs to transform, and we’re building the team to drive change across Europe and North America. 

To fulfil our purpose of redefining packaging for a changing world, we aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce. Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.  

Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria. 

Top Skills

MS Office
SAP
The Company
Atlanta, GA
12,147 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

DS Smith provides innovative packaging solutions, paper products and recycling services with a commitment to sustainability and a circular economy.

Our core purpose is to Redefine Packaging for a Changing World, and our expert teams work closely with like-minded partners to incorporate renewable resources for products that minimize our environmental impact, reduce complexity and increase profitability through supply chain optimization

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