Logistics Performance Manager (12 Month FTC)

About the role.

As a Logistics Performance Manager, you'll play a key role in ensuring our carriers and suppliers deliver exceptional operational performance, customer focus, and compliance to process - all while keeping operational costs in check.

Working as part of a dynamic team, you'll manage the operational interactions with over 350 Drop Ship Vendors (DSVs) and our carrier partners. From onboarding new suppliers to driving continuous improvement, you'll be at the heart of ensuring our logistics operations run smoothly and efficiently.

This is a varied and hands on role where you'll build strong relationships with vendors, carriers, and internal teams, ensuring compliance, resolving issues, and identifying opportunities to enhance performance.

This role will be based in our Head Office located in Speke, but will require occasional nationwide travel to visit our Drop Ship Vendor supplier base.

Key Responsibilities

• New Supplier Set Up
  • Ensuring robust operational processes are in place and maintained.
  • Building and maintaining strong working relationships with new vendors.
  • Managing vendor integration with our systems and providing training to dispatch teams.
  • Overseeing label development, testing, and carrier collection set up.
• Ongoing Vendor Support
  • Resolving operational issues and ensuring vendor compliance with dispatch processes.
  • Monitoring and maintaining accurate stock status with vendors.
  • Building strong relationships with carriers and resolving any transport related issues.
• Collaboration with Internal Teams
  • Partnering with Supply Chain Teams, vendors, and carriers to drive improvements.
  • Supporting and delivering initiatives identified during QBRs.
• Site Audits and Compliance
  • Conducting site audits of carrier and supplier locations to ensure compliance and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Driving performance improvements and resolving carrier/supplier related performance and customer issues.
• Delivery Carrier Relationships
  • Maintaining great relationships with our network of delivery carriers.
  • Ensuring vendors have sufficient capacity to meet forecasts taking into account special events and seasonality.
  • Oversight of customer delivery performance through vendors and carriers.

About you.

You're a self starter with a passion for logistics and a customer first mindset. You thrive on solving problems, building relationships, and driving performance improvements. You're confident in challenging the status quo and influencing others to deliver results.

Here's what we're looking for:

• A background in logistics with a strong understanding of operational processes.
• A customer focused approach with a tenacious and proactive attitude.
• Strong influencing and relationship building skills.
• Excellent communication skills - verbal, written, and presentation.
• An enquiring and challenging mindset, always looking for ways to improve.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast paced environment.

Some of our benefits.

• Flexible, hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment
• £1,000 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Udemy learning access
• Bonus potential (performance and business related)
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk
• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be found on our career site

Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities

We're building a culture of everyday inclusion, and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We don't discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply, interview, or perform a role, let us know via . We'll be happy to support you.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.