Sheffield
Depot Manager – Materials Handling Location: Sheffield My Client is looking for a high-calibre Depot Manager to take full ownership of its Sheffield operation. This is not a caretaker role. You’ll run the depot as if it’s your own business accountable for people, profit, performance and customer delivery. If you’ve managed a materials handling, plant, or equipment hire depot before, you’ll know exactly what this involves. The Role You will have end-to-end responsibility for depot performance, covering service, sales, parts, engineers and customers. Key responsibilities: • Full P&L responsibility for the depot, • Leading and developing service, sales, parts and admin teams, • Driving revenue growth, utilisation and margin improvement, • Ensuring service delivery, uptime and SLAs are met, • Managing engineer productivity and depot efficiency, • Owning customer relationships and resolving escalations decisively, • Enforcing H&S, compliance and operational standards, • Recruiting, coaching and retaining high-performing staff, • Proven Depot Manager / Branch Manager experience, • Background in materials handling, forklifts, plant, powered access or hire, • Strong commercial acumen ,understands numbers, margins and recovery, • Confident leader who holds people to account, • Comfortable making tough decisions and managing pressure, • Competitive basic salary (dependent on experience), • Bonus linked to depot performance, • Company car, • Pension, holiday and full benefits package, • Clear progression within a growing, ambitious business