Logistics Team Leader

Motability Operations are currently recruiting for an Logistics Team Leader to join our team in Coalville on a full-time, permanent basis. Working in Vehicle Solutions, part of Motability Operations Limited, the UK's largest vehicle leasing company, the role of the Logistics Team Leader is to ensure that outbound logistics is planned and managed effectively through the Logistics Team, with optimum flow of vehicles through the process, supporting Vehicle Solutions in its objective to prepare for sale, 50K vehicles per year, at the Coalville centre.

• To organise the team on a daily basis, ensuring that tasks are prioritised, allocated and completed in a timely manner, to support the optimum flow of vehicles through the process.
• Ensure that all vehicles leaving site go through the approved despatch processes, and that systems are updated to reflect the accurate status.
• Ensure that vehicles are parked ready for collection, in line with the agreed process, and that compounds are kept clear, clean and tidy, at all times.
• Provide regular feedback to the team in respect of achievement of daily, weekly and monthly objectives.
• Liaise with other Team Leaders and Supervisors on a regular basis, to identify and resolve any issues impacting site flow and achievement of objectives.
• Ensure that the team is adequately resourced, and tasks allocated in a way which supports vehicle flow and volume objectives.
• Ensure that Standard Operating Procedures are adhered to at all times, and where appropriate, identify when Risk Assessments related to vehicle handling and movement, need to be reviewed or amended.
• Ensure compliance with all Environmental, Health and Safety regulations, from both a people and process perspective, ensuring that colleagues report incidents, should they occur.
  
  You have experience of a high volume, quick turn, vehicle refurbishment operation.
• You have quality and continuous improvement at the heart of everything you do.
• You lead by example and can adapt your own behaviour and approach, when appropriate to do so for the benefit of the wider team.
• You are structured and methodical in your approach.
• You are an effective communicator, with experience of offering continuous support and development to your team, through regular performance reviews.
• You seek opportunities to improve process and efficiencies, with a view to improving performance against key performance indicators.
Minimum criteria:
• Experience of leading a team, in a vehicle refurbishment environment.
• A flexible approach to working hours.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Team Player
• Full UK Driving Licence.
  
  Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 630,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:
• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care
  
  Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• 1 day for volunteering
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
• Generous family leave policies
At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.