Solutions Design Project Manager

Location: West Midlands

Salary: £50K – £60K + additional benefits

Role summary:

Our client are a leading logistics provider, due to continued growth they a looking to appoint a Solutions Design Project Manager. You will be the mastermind behind crafting both transportation and warehouse solutions tailored to our clients’ needs. You will collaborate with customers to understand their logistical and warehousing requirements, and then design seamless, end-to-end solutions that integrate transport with warehousing operations.

You then may manage the deployment of projects that involve both transportation and warehouse operations. You will be the central coordinator ensuring that our warehouse activities and transport timelines align perfectly to meet project goals. You will define project scopes that include warehousing elements, oversee implementation, and keep everything running smoothly from the warehouse floor to the final delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Engage with clients to gather and analyse both their logistics and warehousing needs (trunking and C&D location selection, cast modelling, opened verse open networks).
• Design integrated solutions that include warehousing strategies such as storage optimisation, inventory management, and efficient movement of goods in and out of the warehouse (automation reasoning, pick strategy, order flow distances, storage and despatch media).
• Plan and manage projects that include both warehousing and transport components, ensuring cohesive execution (change management, PRINCE 2 or equivalent/experience, critical path analysis, interdependence mapping, MS project experience or equivalent).
• Coordinate with warehouse teams to ensure inventory management and storage solutions are integrated into the overall project plan.
• Monitor and report on both warehouse and transport milestones, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and any adjustments needed.
• Introduce and execute productivity improvement, promoting increased efficiencies and service and quality performance in the operation.
• Communicate, implement and maintain company policy and procedures throughout solutions designed or projects deployed.

Experience:

• Ability to understand, summaries and using large volumes of data.
• Proven experience in both logistics and warehouse solution design.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to integrate warehousing with transport solutions.

• Excellent communication skills to translate complex requirements into actionable plans.
• Strong project management experience, especially involving warehouse operations.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with warehouse staff and logistics teams.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail to juggle both warehousing and transport elements.
• Proven record of successful customer interface and supplier management
• Ability to use Microsoft XP (Excel, Word, Email, Access, PowerPoint) or similar data base to a high level as well as industry specific systems for warehouse and transport design.

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All applicants must have an unrestricted right to work in the UK as our client will not support visa sponsorship for this role.