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As a Regional Manager you will be leading our Customer Delivery Centres and its outbases to success. You will be managing the operational standards for your sites, ensuring their safe and efficient running. With a team of approximately 250 colleagues delivering an estimated £250m worth of customer deliveries, from a minimum of 2 different retail brands (DFS and Sofology), whilst ensuring we achieve our commitments in line with agreed SLAs to ensure optimum revenue performance.
Job Responsibility
Strategic Regional Leadership: Provide inspirational leadership to 250 colleagues, driving engagement, championing diversity, and fostering high-performance teams
Massive Scale Accountability: Oversee approximately £250m worth of customer deliveries across our brands, DFS and Sofology, collaborating with the Operations Director on key strategic initiatives
Customer-Centric Excellence: Cultivate a culture that puts the customer at the heart of all operations, relentlessly pursuing continuous improvement and robust complaint resolution
SLA & Performance Ownership: Ensure the region consistently meets and exceeds all customer metrics and SLAs (including NPS and CPO) through strong cross-functional collaboration
Financial & Budgetary Control: Manage an annual budget of £6m–£8m, driving effective cost management across overtime, agency staff, and external contractor spend
Talent Development & Coaching: Support, coach, and motivate CDC and Warehouse Managers to embed high standards of leadership across the region
Rigorous Health & Safety: Hold ultimate accountability for the health, safety, and welfare of all regional colleagues, continuously striving for a zero-harm workplace
Regulatory Compliance: Partner closely with Fleet Services to ensure 100% compliance with all vehicle and transport regulations
Cross-Functional Synergy: Build trusted relationships with retail, buying, merchandising, finance, and audit functions to support overarching business objectives
Status Quo Challenger: Act as a change agent, comfortably challenging the leadership team with innovative ways of working to boost service and efficiency
Requirements
You have a background in logistics
Proven experience of extensive people leadership
Excellent people skills and able to communicate professionally al all levels
Great analytical skills
Ability to influence colleagues at all levels
Ability to deliver results through the effective leadership of your people
Thorough understanding of driving and working time regulations