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Warehouse Operations Manager
Dual site – Donation Centre in Harrogate and Warehouse in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire – in line with the needs of the charity and rota
We are committed to paying the Real Living Wage.
About Us
Yorkshire is one of the regions hardest hit by cancer. Together, we can change this.
Yorkshire Cancer Research is a charity dedicated to funding research so that you and those you love live longer healthier lives, free of cancer.
Thanks to supporters, the charity funds vital cancer research and pioneers innovative new services for people with cancer. These life-giving medical breakthroughs are helping more people survive cancer – in Yorkshire, and beyond.
The Benefits
We offer all employees a wide range of benefits including an enhanced contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service), flexible working arrangements, private medical insurance, enhanced maternity leave, career progression, learning and development, wellbeing initiatives, offices within walking distance of Hornbeam Park train station, free onsite parking and a whole lot more.
We’ve got a strong set of values that inform everything we do and we’re looking for people who are aligned with these. As our Warehouse Operations Manager, you will put people in Yorkshire at the heart of everything you do, unite with colleagues and other organisations in this cause, and dare to think big and bold to make positive solutions happen.
The Role
As a Warehouse Operations Manager you will oversee the Manse Lane Warehouse in Knaresborough, including donation sorting, storage, and supporting the eCommerce and Facilities teams.
Reporting to the Head of Operations, you will manage the smooth migration of the sorting operation from the Hornbeam Park Donation Centre to Knaresborough, ensuring minimal disruption for customers, staff, and volunteers. Once operational, you will lead stock control and movement across both the Warehouse and Donation Centre, ensuring both sites are well-resourced and run efficiently seven days a week. Although sorting will move to Knaresborough, donation handling will continue at Hornbeam Park, requiring ongoing process review to minimise stock double-handling.
Specifically, you will:
Warehouse Setup & Migration – initial objective
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Define goals, deliverables, and timelines for the new warehouse project.
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Create detailed project and budget plans with the Finance Business Partner.
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Identify resources, manage risks, and ensure operational alignment.
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Design an efficient warehouse layout and manage setup (equipment, tech, logistics).
Operational Handover & SOPs
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Develop and implement new SOPs and adjust existing ones to suit the new site.
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Support the Centre Manager with Duty Management planning and reconfigure the Hornbeam site to reflect its updated purpose.
Monitoring, Compliance & Continuous Improvement
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Monitor success of migration via KPIs (efficiency, inventory accuracy, staff feedback).
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Ensure compliance with health and safety standards and oversee risk assessments.
Ongoing Operational Management - Donation Centre & Warehouse
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Ensure smooth day-to-day running of both sites, maintaining compliance, service quality, and brand standards.
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Oversee the flow of donated stock from receipt to final distribution, minimising double handling and maintaining stock visibility.
Customer, Donor & Volunteer Experience
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Create a welcoming, professional environment for donors, supporters, and visitors.
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Maintain high standards of customer service and manage complaints locally where possible.
Duty Management
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Take an active Duty Manager role and ensure robust Duty Management across both sites.
Stock Logistics & Distribution
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Oversee logistics including donor collections, stock deliveries, and shop orders.
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Ensure appropriate stock allocation to retail/eCommerce based on demographics and demand.
People Management
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Line manage the Deputy Warehouse Manager, Sorting Assistants, Van Drivers, and volunteers.
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Ensure clear roles, responsibilities, and high standards are upheld across the team.
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Lead on recruitment, training, performance management, wellbeing, and development.
Financial & Commercial Responsibility
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Operate within budget, ensuring spend is necessary and well-managed.
About You
To be considered for this role, you will need:
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To be ideally educated to degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience in a warehouse / operations management experience.
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To have proven experience in a warehouse operations role at manager level.
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To have experience of managing people and volunteers including recruitment and development.
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To have previous experience in charity sector or commercial sector is desirable.
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To have a basic understanding of Microsoft Office programs including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
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To be highly organised with good time management skills.
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To be able to react to quickly changing dynamics and flexibility.
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To have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
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To have strong leadership skills with the ability to coach, develop and nurture talent.
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To have proof of your eligibility to work in the UK.
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A professional qualification check and DBS check (to be undertaken once the role is offered and accepted).
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To have the ability to travel across the Yorkshire region if required.
Application
Before applying, please visit our Careers Page to view the full role profile and find out more about working for Yorkshire Cancer Research.
To apply please submit a CV and cover letter outlining your suitability for the role to Claire Wooldridge, Head of People, before 18 June 2025. Please read our privacy notice before applying.
Yorkshire Cancer Research is a responsible and flexible employer. We welcome any discussion for flexible working at the interview/offer stage where we will consider an individual’s circumstances against the needs of the charity.
We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. If we can make any reasonable adjustments to support your application, please contact us via our website.
Thank you!
The organisation
ImpactEd Group supports education and purpose-driven organisations to maximise and realise their potential. A growing and skilled team of over 30 people, we help our partners to be consistently impactful and sustainable through a combination of specialist support and use of digital tools.
This project would support our Evaluation Practice. The evaluation team works with over 1,500 schools and organisations, analysing the impact of programmes and interventions to help them do more of what works and less of what doesn’t for young people. As well as tailored consultancy and support for our partners, we support schools and organisations to collect and evaluate educational data through an in-house digital tool (our “School Impact Platform”) – which this project would support.
The opportunity
We are seeking an experienced data engineer to help transform our data infrastructure to better manage our growing dataset of over 14 billion records and create more efficient analytics capabilities. This is a hands-on technical role that will involve both strategic advisory work and practical implementation.
Initially a fixed-term project of around 3-4 months, working to the project outcomes, there may be opportunities for longer-term advisory and technical support following completion if this is of interest.
We are happy for you to work flexibly although would expect the majority of your time to be committed to this project. We expect the work to be conducted predominantly remotely, with a few key meetings in person at our London offices, though you are welcome to use our office space throughout. We anticipate the project being outside of IR35.
What will you do?
Our School Impact Platform brings together existing data from schools (for example, on student demographics and attendance at school) and other forms of data (for example, surveys on student wellbeing and motivation) to help school leaders and educational organisations better understand the impact of their educational choices and programmes.
Part of this involves processing significant data from schools, and we are looking at options for how this could be handled more effectively and be more easily extracted for analysis.
We currently have 14 billion records in a PostgreSQL table, which we believe could be stored more cost effectively and allow for faster data retrieval by using new or alternative data stores. We would also like to develop data pipelines to take data from Postgres to serve analytics use cases, either in new Postgres tables or potentially in a data warehouse or similar.
We would like someone to help identify the best solutions for both areas, assuming our assumptions are correct, and lead the majority of the implementation. You would work closely with our in-house software development team and an existing consultant with experience in data analytics.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.
Are you concerned about the climate emergency? Keen to use your IT expertise to protect the planet for future generations?
We are looking for a Lead Data Software Developer to lead our technical delivery and have oversight of our Data Engineering work.
The role:
You will lead the technical delivery and oversight of our Data Engineering work including the continued development, maintenance, reporting and support of FoE’s data assets.
On a day-to-day basis, you will oversee the management of our data model, including the import, export and integration of data with third parties.
Key Skills and Attributes:
- You will oversee internal and external software development relating to data, using an Agile, iterative approach and seeking frequent customer involvement in changes.
- Lead on the technical aspects of our organisational data strategy, working with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure that data enables our work
- Contributing to data-driven decision-making processes, and collaborating cross-functionally with teams to address complex organisational challenges
- Use software development best practices to ensure the well-managed delivery, maintenance and continuous improvement of our data systems. This includes our CRM, Data Warehouse and data flows to and from other systems and third parties.
- Improving the quality of changing processes through effective code reviews, coaching and training for team members, and ongoing monitoring and rectification of existing processes
The team:
You will be part of the Data and Applications team, consisting of a Data and Applications Product Owner, two Business Application Specialists, yourself and a Data Software Developer. You will assist in developing and delivering the organisational data strategy, supporting projects relating to data improvement across the organisation, ensuring stakeholders and key users are involved in its planning and assisting with the prioritisation of the Data Engineering workload.
For more information please see the job description.
Closing date: Monday 16th June 23:59
Hours: Full time (30 hours over 4 days)
Location: Flexible across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with ability to attend London office once per quarter for team meetings.
(London salary applicable to candidates who are based in the London office a minimum of two days a week).
Please note we only accept applications via the Friends of the Earth Application System.
We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance including a 4-day working week with no loss of pay, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.
Our staff body is currently under-representative of People of Colour, LGBTQIA+ people and people with long term conditions or impairments. We are committed to eroding these historic barriers, so as to create a movement in which people from all walks of life see themselves in, and so we particularly encourage you to apply if you belong to one of these groups or sit at multiple intersections of disadvantage. We are committed to the Disability Confident standard and will guarantee an interview to any candidates who declare a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Friends of the Earth staff who publicly represent Friends of the Earth (including all campaigners) are not allowed to also represent a political party. This is to ensure that there can be no confusion in the minds of the public about Friends of the Earth's party-political independence. Affected staff should also seek permission from the Senior Management Team if they wish to hold a non-public facing official role in a political party. If this is an issue, please do raise this with us as soon as possible.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
We are part of an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.