Job Title: Logistics Manager
The Skills You’ll Need: Logistics, Packaging, 3PL, Warehousing
Your New Salary: £45k pro rata
Hybrid: 3 days in the office (Central London), 2 at home
Role Type: 12 week FTC, may go longer
Start: ASAP
Working hours: 9am - 5.30pm (45 minute break)
Who You’ll be working for: Highly successful design led business operating in the luxury hotel sector.
Logistics Manager - What You’ll be Doing:
*Appoint and maintain collaborative but robust relations with 3PLs, couriers and Freight Forwarders
*Review current warehousing and logistics operations with particular focus on reduction of costs and improvement of service.
*Manage contractual terms with logistics service providers.
*Challenge all cost lines. Benchmark costs.
*Optimise all processes (systems and operational) with a focus on continuous improvement.
*Document, maintain and improve SOPs/ways of working.
*Ensure all 3PLs meet their KPIs & Service Levels – review at regular business meetings.
*Manage invoices. Challenge discrepancies and follow through on resolutions.
*Evolve & improve the pick & pack/QC/returns/repack/ processes.
*Reduce stock holding through consolidation and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to managing damages/overstocks/obsolete SKUs etc.
*Ensure stock accuracy; annual stock counts, cycle counting, monthly location audits, scanning barcodes
*Full understanding of packaging types and possibilities and define requirements for existing and new SKUs.
*Regular and ad hoc reporting.
Logistics Manager - The Skills You’ll Need to Succeed:
*Working experience managing Logistics service providers.
*An understanding of international logistics and technical requirements
*IT skills including ERP, Excel, Outlook, AI tools desirable
*High performance, results driven
*Desire for continuous improvement
*Able to demonstrate initiative and the ability to define, cost and deliver solutions
*Ability and confidence to challenge intelligently
*Proactive, hardworking, keen to learn
*Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
*Numerate, analytical and IT literate with good verbal and written communication skills
*Honest, reliable, personable team player willing to ’pitch in’ as required
*Able to work cross functionally
*Able to travel (EU) to 3PL if required


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