Title:  Despatch Department Manager

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:

Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain’s private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.

Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.

We are currently recruiting for a Despatch Manager to join our Manchester Dairy

Job Purpose:

Develop a culture of aspiration and excellence to enable the site to deliver the OGSM. Embed Muller excellence and deliver high performance through PMS principles and KPI management. Collaboratively work with cross functions and maintain industry relationships to maximise performance and identify synergies.

Salary: Competitive

Hours: 40 hours per week (Monday-Friday)

Location: Manchester  

Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Lead change and projects effectively through high level problem solving capability and facilitations skills
• Create a culture and enable team to create and deliver OE opportunities, improving the way we do things focussing on value, customer service and best practice.
• Responsible for contingency planning and incident control
• Demonstrate health and safety leadership and commitment through embedding the Muller safety culture, promoting engagement across all levels.
• Accountable and ownership of actions
• Responsible for process confirmation, legal and audit compliance
• Demonstrate leadership capability through strong coaching, mentoring and people management skills that enables their team to deliver high performing results
• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues
• Creating succession pathways both up through and across organisation to enable potential and growth
• Promotes and instils MMI behaviours across all levels of the function

Skills and Experience:

• In depth despatch knowledge
• Strong knowledge of Opex tools/techniques
• Experience in FMCG manufacturing

Benefits

• Up to 15% yearly bonus
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
• Life assurance at 4x your annual salary
• 33 days holiday per year
• Health care cash plan
• Access to 1000s of reward via the Muller Rewards platform

Contact Details:

F.A.O. UK Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ