Logistics Team Leader

Job Introduction

Sodexo Live! are actively recruiting for a Logistics Team Leader to join our team based from Craven Cottage, the home of Fulham Football Club (FFC)! Your focus will be to assist the operational management team in the preparation of the Craven Cottage match day and non-match day events and the Sodexo logistics team onsite with logistics support.

At Sodexo Live! we are a unique community of people mobilized to create live experiences that are unforgettable.

It's an exciting time to join us and be a part of the eleven-year contract as venue partner for FFC on its new Fulham Pier development.

Fulham Pier is becoming one of London’s leading leisure destinations on the banks of the Thames which include restaurants, a Riverside Market, meetings and events spaces, bars and lounges, a basement entertainment venue, a boutique hotel and a spa experience

Sodexo Live! delivers hospitality, retail and non-event day sales and catering at the iconic Craven Cottage.

This is a truly exceptional role, working in an amazing venue. You will have proven relevant experience ideally in food and beverage logistics; you will be able to multitask and communicate with confidence at all levels. Key to your success will be excellent time-management and coordination skills, a strong knowledge of Health & Safety best practice and a flexible approach to your work. In return we offer you the opportunity to truly expand your skillset and be part of a crucial highly supportive team.

When you join Sodexo Live! you truly belong, you will have the opportunity to thrive with career and learning opportunities available across the organisation - we cant wait for you to join us!

Role Responsibility

• Receive deliveries from suppliers. Ensuring all orders received are correct, complete, received in a timely manner, stored correctly, and recorded using the inventory stock system.
• Ensure all required areas are fully stocked and merchandised
• Monitor and communicate stock levels for all departments, coordinating the rotation of short shelf-life products to limit over-ordering and ensure wastage is kept to a minimum. Supervise and carry out monthly and year end stock taking process for all consumable catering goods within the stadium
• Ensures logistics team members always work in a safe manner in line with company Health & Safety processes and procedures as well as undertaking risk assessments. Plan, arrange and manage the training of the logistics team in skills such as forklift truck operation, manual handling and the safe use of a pallet truck, trollies, and sack barrows
• Ensure all logistics areas are cleaned to a high standard in readiness for event days
• Report any maintenance issues to the Logistics Management team
• Oversee the variable logistics team on non-match days and event days ensuring work is completed on time and on specification
• Support the Operations team with logistical needs in setting up rooms, furniture moving and storing

For a full list of responsibilities please view the attached job description

The Ideal Candidate

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, time management, planning, organisational and people management skills and ability to communicate effectively with customers and clients
• Flexible approach to working hours
• Previous stock control and warehouse experience
• Self-motivated and self-sufficient who enjoys working in a high achieving environment
• Experience in using Microsoft Office
• People management experience
• Manage multiple workloads and shifting priorities
• Ability to operate to performance criteria, for example, health and safety, hygiene
• Food Safety and Health and Safety qualifications to level 3 (desired), catering background

Desirable

• Forklift licence and Driver’s licence 

Package Description

£28,000 to £31,000pa + great benefits

Location: Fulham Football Club, London SW6 6HH

Permanent

Work Pattern – 40 hrs pw 5/7 with flexibility as you will be required to work all match days and attend major event days

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more!

We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities, and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves. We recognise that we’re on a journey with regards to diversity and inclusion and would therefore welcome applications for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process