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Depot Manager – Materials Handling

Location: West Midlands

My Client is looking for a high-calibre Depot Manager to take full ownership of its West Midlands 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

* Reporting on performance and executing regional strategy locally

What We’re Looking For

* 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

* Customer-focused but commercially firm

The Package

* 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