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You will coach and support colleagues, set clear expectations and create a positive team culture that delivers excellent service for our customers.\nKey responsibilities\nLead, coach and develop a team of warehouse colleagues(Close to around 30), taking ownership of their performance, engagement and development.\nDelivering productivity, quality, attendance and service targets.\n\nCoaching colleagues to maximise performance and capability.\n\nMonitoring team performance and taking action to improve results.\n\nDelivering team briefings and maintaining clear communication throughout the shift.\n\nSupporting workflow and resource allocation across operational areas.\n\nMaintaining shift handovers and operational updates.\n\nEnsuring compliance with Health & Safety, security and operational standards.\n\nWorking collaboratively with support departments to resolve operational issues.\n\nCreating a positive, engaged and high-performing team culture.\n\nWhat you'll need to have (our must-haves)\nThese are the essential experience needed to succeed in this role.\nProven experience directly leading and managing a team within a warehouse, logistics or operational environment.\nStrong communication and people leadership skills, with the ability to engage, support and motivate colleagues while setting clear expectations.\nAbility to coach, motivate and develop colleagues, identifying development or performance gaps and following through on improvement.\nAbility to assess operational issues, identify root causes, set priorities and take clear action.\nExperience using operational KPIs and performance data to prioritise workload, deploy resource and improve results.\nA proactive approach to safety, identifying risks and taking action to maintain safe working practices.\nAbility to remain calm and organised in a fast-paced environment.\nBasic IT skills and confidence using operational systems and reporting tools.\nA proactive approach and willingness to take ownership of challenges.\nExperience managing people processes including performance, attendance, absence and conduct, with confidence having difficult conversations and supporting formal investigations where required.\nIt would be great if you also have\nExperience within an automated distribution environment.\nPrevious experience in warehouse, outbound or e-commerce operations.\nExperience managing agency colleagues.\nExperience supporting continuous improvement or operational improvement activities.\nRewards designed for you\nBoots Retirement Savings Plan\n\nDiscretionary annual bonus\n\nGenerous employee discounts\n\nEnhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child\n\nFlexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.\n\nAccess to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.\n\nThere's lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts - there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only. Please note that any salary estimates provided on third-party sites are not endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.\nA bit about us\nAt Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.\nWhat's next\nIf you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. 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