Senior Solutions Design Manager

Job Description

Senior Solutions Design Manager Location: Nuneaton / hybridContract Type: PermanentHours: Full time, 40 hours per weekSalary: c£85,000 plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus healthcare, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits schemeAbout the JobWe are looking for a Senior Solutions Design Manager to lead and support members within the solution team and be accountable for the delivery of solid sustainable business solutions. Our team are accountable for the delivery of solutions designs for existingcustomers, new business, and consultancy, and you will manage large projects - being accountable during implementation phase to ensure a level of ‘gate keeping’ of the solution design and will evaluate impact of change requests with the project manager. Youwill actively work with the cross-functional SMEs and wider stakeholders, internally and externally, and ensure that the Ops teams are engaged throughout and bought in to Operational Solutions up to and including Sign off.As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

• Be accountable for delivery of solutions from receipt of tender documents to the point of hand over to BAU operations.
• Be confident in managing large scale solution projects and managing delegation of roles to ensure solid solutions.
• Ensure knowledge and confidence in business requirement documentation for input into WMS build.
• Continuously research latest trends and developments within the automation realm
• Be accountable for contact with SMEs to pull together one single solution definition document.
• Provide all the required information to the finance team to enable a full cost model output.
• Provide the necessary input during the process for the support of the tender creation.
• Active member of the Solutions Team, providing appropriate input, support, and challenge
• Coach and manage members of the solution team to ensure high performance.
• Actively work with the cross-functional SMEs and wider stakeholders, internally and externally
• Chair and facilitate meetings as required.
• Create, and continue to grow and enhance effective working relationships with the Bid team, the Business Development team, the Implementation SMEs, the Functional Heads, and the external stakeholders.

About YouWe’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

• Show commitment to continuous professional development; maintain own personal development portfolio and actively develop own skills and competencies, both technically and behaviourally
• Give and receive feedback generously and with grace and humility.
• Ask great questions; listen generously to the spoken and the unspoken; demonstrate a professional curiosity that one explores.
• Add value to the team by being the best version of you and helping others to be the best version of themselves.
• Graduate or equivalent, with demonstrable experience of successful delivery of large successful solutions at a Senior level, in a 3rd Party Logistics (3PL) environment, or possibly in in-house logistics
• Full warehouse design ability, with high level ability to use CAD, SketchUp or Class
• Good working knowledge of designing automation into solutions.
• Ability to assess and manage a large-scale design project and determine levels of requirements need to satisfy customer demand.
• Able to lead/support others with design.
• Excellent MS Office skills
• Systemic knowledge of the principles for Warehouse Management Systems
• Stakeholder Management Skills

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the groundsof race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristicas defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristicsand thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.You may also have experience in the following: Senior SAP Functional Lead, Project Manager, Design Lead, Solutions Developer, IT Project Manager, Logistics Project Manager, Software Development, Solutions Designer, WMS, Senior Solutions Delivery, etc.REF-206 152