Distribution Coordinator

The Recipe

To provide a range of coordination and administrative support services to the Distribution Department, ensuring the teams can deliver a professional service that meets the needs of the customer and the business.

Key Accountabilities and Measures

• To ensure self and work area conforms to health and safety legislation, policies and standards, reporting issues ensuring that safety is always the number one priority.
• To create and maintain rota sheets for all teams
• To coordinate all vehicle availability and allocation to routes
• Provide support for distribution training & development activities, to ensure they are effectively monitored.
• Maintain the Fleet management system and the collection of and storage of driver data to ensure support compliance to company & legal requirements.
• To develop, and maintain, effective communication channels and working relationships with the external provider network.
• Support Distribution team with any other Coordination duties.
• Support Distribution team with any other administerial duties.
• Complete compliance reports for the site Distribution leadership team

Essential Ingredients

• Knowledge and experience of working in a warehouse & logistics environment.
• A good working knowledge of IT including SAP, Distribution technology tools, Document Management systems & processes
• Excellent organisation and time management skills and meticulous attention to detail
• Works using own initiative in a systematic and organised manner prioritising & managing own workload
• Excellent communication skills, influential, persuasive and collaborative, establishing trusted relationships with both internal and external contacts at all levels
• Strong balanced judgement and use a pragmatic common-sense approach with the ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality.
• Strong team working ethic
• Knowledge of obligations required to maintain compliance to operator licence commitments
• Operator Licence Awareness trained
• Good relationship builder- collaborative in approach, establishing credible, trusted relationships with both internal and external contacts at all levels.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and as part of a wider site function

Extra Dough

At last and by no means least, you will want to know what your breads worth:

• A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
• Family time is important to us and we know it will be to you so you have the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave.
• Award winning pension scheme with company contributions of 7%
• Life assurance
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
• Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service