Yard Logistics Team Leader - Bedford, United Kingdom - BCA

BCA

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Bedford, United Kingdom

6 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for reliable, passionate, and professional individuals who want to join the BCA family

Job Title:
Yard Logistics Team Leader

Location:
BCA Bedford

Salary:
Up to £30,000 Depending on experience

Working Hours:
Monday to Friday 08:30-17:30 (40 hours a week)

Who are we?

We're the biggest name in Europe's vehicle remarketing industry, selling
1.3m vehicles per year, across
60 locations and with a
turnover of £2billion.

We believe our people are the best in the business, they are friendly, expert, and professional.

Main purpose of the job:

To provide day to day operational leadership in the Yard area ensuring required vehicle movements are completed in a timely, safe and efficient manner.

To support the Duty Manager - Yard Logistics in the delivery of all elements of effective people management including recruitment, training, performance management, communication and wellbeing.

Main responsibilities:

People Management:

To manage all elements of the employee lifecycle including onboarding and offboarding.
Performance management of the team including training, coaching and appraisals to ensure both optimum performance and talent pipeline.
Effective workforce management, including absence planning, ensuring optimum staff levels at all times and adherence to working time directive.
Effective communication to team ensuring awareness of results and key priorities.

Operational Management:

To transport vehicles across the site safely and efficiently to support production areas, buyer collections and internal and external collection agents.
Ensure adherence to BCA Standard Operating Procedures.
Ensure that quality, speed and cost targets are delivered to maximise profitability.
Ensure the logistics team provide excellent customer service to both internal and external customers, supporting other departments where appropriate.
Organise the layout and flow of the yard to optimise capacity, efficiency and safety whilst minimising onsite damage.

Technical skills:

Delegate responsibility appropriately and effectively
Ability to motivate a team to deliver objectives and meet targets
Good report generation and presentation abilities
Excellent attention to detail
Excellent time management
Knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel and Powerpoint
IT skills
Drive & results focus
Motivating & developing others
Data, decisions & problem solving
Influencing & communicating
Action and customer focused
Team Player

Knowledge and Experience:

Essential:

Experience in a line manager or team leader role
Able to demonstrate highlevel organisational skills and an ability to communicate a variety of information and instruction to operational team members and first line supervisors
Full UK Driving Licence

Why choose BCA?

Onsite parking
Employee Assistance Programme
Eye care scheme
Access to BCA Rewards which provides online and store discounts with a range of retailers
Cycle to work scheme
Training/apprenticeship offering
Deals on new cars
Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or disability._