Depot Manager

Depot Manager

PPG Maidstone

Full Time Permanent

The Role:

This role oversees the smooth running of our Maidstone depot ensuring targets are met and employees are managed. Taking responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the depot whilst meeting/exceeding all customer expectations whilst adhering to all internal processes and procedures. Working safely is part of the PPG way and it is the Depot Managers responsibility to ensure the depot complies with all H&S regulations and operates in a safe manner.

Responsibilities:

• Builds Effective Teams.
• Communicates clear goals and roles to team members.
• Ensures team has the right mix of skills and leverages the strengths of individual members.
• Rewards team efforts and accomplishments.
• Effective and proactive inventory management including slow and obsolete products.
• Competent with HR processes and people management including recruitment of new employment.
• Responsible for ensuring as a minimum requirement that all service level agreements for national & major local accounts must be always met.
• Ensures KPIs are set for all team members monitors performance and puts corrective plans in place to address underperformance.
• Responsible for ensuring company vehicles are maintained safe fully compliant to UK road laws and secure.
• Monitor and act on driver behaviour using in vehicle telematics.

Skills and Attributes Required

• Monitors progress of performance and changes approach
• accordingly takes ownership of teams and own work follows.
• through on commitments.
• Independently anticipates and meets customer needs searches for ways to improve customer performance uses customer insights to drive innovation.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong people management skills ability to manage a small team and delegate effectively where necessary.
• Effective use of staff resource across the Depot depending on business needs at the time.
• Strong numeracy and literacy skills
• Competent I.T skills including the use of Office 360 WMS CRM and ERP systems.
• Proactive with a positive approach to challenges
• Self-motivated and ability to motivate others to achieve common goals.
• Able to engage with business objectives and contribute to the wider strategy.
• Must be prepared to take overall ownership accountability and responsibility for the Depot.

Qualifications and / Knowledge

• Operational experience ideally 5 years or equivalent in paint/non-paint to Bodyshop End users / distributors.
• Sales or customer management experience
• Understanding of coatings business is preferable
• People management qualification / previous experience
• Stock processes / Inventory management
• Strong leadership skills
• Financial Operational & EHS compliant
• Computer literate
• Warehousing (picking / packing)
• Planning / transport experience including route planning.
• EHS & Sustainability
• Valid clean driving licence

About us:

PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD

Through leadership in innovation sustainability and color PPG helps customers in industrial transportation consumer products and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways thandoes any other company. To learn more visit and follow @PPG onX.

The PPG Way 2030

We are customer champions

Proactive. Bold. Trustworthy. Everything we do starts with our customers. We listen movefastanddontstop until we solve their biggest challenges. When our customers win we all grow.

We act with purpose and speed

Agile. Data-driven. Empowered. We take smart risks to stay ahead of the competition. We work proactively with agility using quality data to develop solutions that create value.

We are excellentoperators

Productive. Collaborative. Accountable. No matter our role weidentifyproblems takeownershipand always bring solutions. We are both proactive and responsive to drive continuous improvement and deliver results. We support ourfrontlinethe faces of PPG to our customers.

We compete to win

Future-focused. Driven. Ambitious. We are passionate about growing our business and winning with our customers. We deliver results embrace newtechnologiesand leverage agility and speed as strengths.

We are PPG proud

Strong. United. Passionate. We work safely act withintegrityand value our diverse perspectives. We celebrate achievements and take pride in the positive impact we create together to protect and beautify the world.

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