Job Title:Warehouse Operative
Reporting to: General Manager
Location: Andover Warehouse
Hours: 40hrs per week. Working hours will be 8:00am - 17:00pm with flexibility required.
Berry Bros. & Rudd is 325 years old, but we never stand still. As the world’s best and most trusted fine wine and spirits merchant, we are committed to helping our customers drink better, now and in the future. A career at Berry Bros. & Rudd is a unique and rewarding experience, combining the rich background of centuries of history with a modern family-owned culture, built on ambitious plans and with people at its heart.
The job in a nutshell
We have an exciting opportunity at our Andover Warehouse for a Warehouse Operative.
You will be part of the Berry Bros. & Rudd Warehouse team in achieving its weekly despatch of c.5000 customer orders - maintaining stock integrity for 25,000 stock locations containing over 20,000 different live product lines (excl. customers’ private reserves) across 3 warehouse sites.?You will ensure the highest levels of service for both internal and external customers for all warehouse associated tasks.
Who you will work with
Internal: Buying, Shipping & Compliance, Customer Service, Despatch, Fine Wine, Inbound.
External: Hauliers, Toyota, External Customers.
What you will do
- Accurately check, receipt and locate stock.
- Accurately pick customers’ orders by set deadlines.
- Accurately pack customers’ orders across all transport models.
- Maintain excellent stock location accuracy and integrity by completing regular stock counts and labelling inspections.
- Pack and re-label promotional stock products.
- Be responsible for developing own skills through annual PDP.
- Work the Christmas shift system for 4-weeks during November / December.
- Work as part of the team in achieving our challenging targets.
- Ensure that all working practices comply with Health and Safety legislation.
- Develop a key skill set to meet changing business demands, including the use of the WMS SAP system.
- Any other duties as reasonably determined by the General Manager that are within skill base.
What you will bring to the role
Your skills, knowledge and qualities:
- Previous experience of working in a warehouse; picking and packing multi-SKU customer orders in a FMCG environment preferred.
- Consistent achievement high personal standards for accuracy, attendance and timekeeping.
- Accountable for achieving personal and team objectives through KPI reporting.
- Works as part of a team with a positive, can-do attitude to learning new responsibilities.
- Good communicator, including written and verbal.
- Demonstrate "ownership" of the warehouse operation by working in different areas to achieve objectives during the day including working extra hours as required.
We support our colleagues with a wide range of benefits: you will start with 24 days' holiday, and 3 additional days over the Christmas period and 1 Personal Day, Private Medical cover & Health plan, Life Insurance, Pension, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), generous Employee discount (up to 40% off products), and many more.
Closing date: 27th March 2024
N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.