Logistics Team Leader

The Role

Are you ready to take charge of a fast-paced and critical logistics operation in the UK? As the leader of our Secondary Logistic Operation, you'll collaborate closely with our third-party logistics (3PL) partners to ensure seamless execution of customer orders, manage returns, handle destruction processes, and oversee local finances.

Imperial Brands is seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Logistics Team Leader to join our inclusive and innovative global FMCG business, supported by 25,000 dedicated employees.

This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career with a leading global company. If you have a passion for logistics and a keen eye for detail, we want to hear from you!

Principle Accountabilities

• Team Management: Inspire and lead others with exceptional communication, organisational expertise and a proven ability to drive collaboration to achieve results.
• Finance Management: Purchase ledger, journals and analyses data and creation of overhead budgets.
• KPI Excellence: Produce and present monthly KPI reports, ensuring alignment with supply chain goals and engaging with key stakeholders.
• Order Fulfilment Mastery: Guarantee seamless SAP order transmission to 3PL WMS, achieving 100% order fulfilment and resolving issues with 3PL and IT.
• Support & Optimize: Assist the Logistics Manager in enhancing 3PL effectiveness and conduct monthly KPI reviews.
• Customer Satisfaction: Address and resolve customer complaints related to transport and physical returns, ensuring top-notch logistics quality.
• Stock Management: Oversee inventory, returns, and destruction processes, maintaining efficient stock management.

Skills and Experience Required

• Elevate Your Career: Leverage your logistics and supply chain management expertise in a mid-senior level role.
• Exceptional Communicator: Demonstrate your outstanding communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities.
• Strategic Challenger: Confidently challenge directives to enhance financial and operational performance.
• Global Insight: Leverage your understanding of global business dynamics and interdependencies.
• Data Savvy: Excel in manipulating data from various systems and working with Excel. And additionally able to utilize your SAP comfortably.
• Problem Solver: Exhibit your effective problem-solving and conflict resolution skills, with a strong team focus.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming.

Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.

Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.