Team Leader – Warehouse

February 21, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Team Leader – Warehouse

Company: Alliance Healthcare

Job description: Did you know that Alliance Healthcare delivers to over 17,000 pharmacies, doctors, hospitals and health centres twice a day from across the UK?

Are you an enthusiastic and motivated team worker looking for the next step or a change in your career? Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role? If so we might have just what you are looking for!

Location: Exeter
Hours per week: 39
Hours of work: Monday to Friday 16:00 – 24:00, occasional Sundays may be required (not more than 3 per annum)
Rate of pay: £12.68 per hour increasing to £16.86 per hour for hours worked after 10pm

Additional overtime is available

About The Role

As a team leader in our warehouse you will be the first point of contact for team members in the achievement of daily targets, set by the management team, with a focus on guiding and developing your team.

Some of the roles you could be doing include:

  • Driving the daily performance of warehouse operatives to achieve or exceed budgeted productivity and quality targets.
  • Implement the daily staffing plan, ensuring optimum output at all times.
  • Deliver training on operational processes including Good Distribution Practice (GDP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  • Conducting team briefings, training and 121s along with return to work interviews for initial absences
  • Carry out duties in the warehouse such as picking, packing.

By becoming a Warehouse team leader, you will be responsible for leading a team in processing customer orders accurately and efficiently, assuring the in-time delivery of possible life-saving products.

About You

To be a team leader with Alliance Healthcare we would value the following skills or knowledge.

  • Previous experience in a warehouse environment including knowledge of Warehouse and Distribution Processes
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to use your own initiative
  • Ability to prioritise workload
  • Excellent time management
  • Previous experience of leading a small team would be highly desirable.

Due to the nature of the position, you will need to be capable of standing and walking for long periods of time as well as bending and lifting in line with Health and Safety Regulations.

We can offer a good quality working environment for our team as well as varied benefits targeted to your wellbeing both within and outside work:

  • Employee assistance programme with legal and financial advisors as well as mental health counselling.
  • Perks at Work with discounts in various retailers as Currys PC World, Samsung, John Lewis and more
  • Access to Mental Health First Aiders
  • Contributory Pension Scheme after 3-month service
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Service Based Holidays
  • Career Development and internal progression opportunities including the possibility of standing in for your line manager in their absence.

About The Company

Alliance Healthcare is a leading distributor and wholesaler of pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare products and part of the backbone of the NHS.

Our service centres play a pivotal role in the success of our business and are responsible for ensuring that we deliver potentially life-saving medicines to an extensive network of local customers on a twice daily basis

Everything we do will impact the end user, the patient. It is our responsibility to offer reliable service that ensures that our customers receive the product needed, where and when they need it.

Our diversity and inclusion vision is to create a culture where we value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to powering greater collaboration and innovation, inspiring us to help people across the UK lead healthier and happier lives.

Expected salary:

Location: Exeter

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