Business Support Manager - Mackie’s of Scotland

Business Support Manager

  • Job Title

    Business Support Manager

  • Department

    Sales

  • Location

    Westertown

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The Business Support Manager will be responsible for managing the administration, customer service and logistics functions of the business. This is a varied role, overseeing a small team and taking a hands-on approach to ensure the efficient daily operations of the areas and offering a wider support to the company’s leadership team. The position requires the management of a large logistics budget and the need to meet weekly Key Performance Indicators, to drive business performance.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

  • Ensuring an excellent customer experience for all our internal and external stakeholders
  • Providing effective line management, support and guidance to the administration, logistics and customer service team members
  • Overseeing tasks related to reporting and analysing data, procurement and effective inventory management.
  • Manage and encourage the development of team members providing individual growth opportunities wherever possible
  • Act as a central point across departments to ensure the administrative requirements of all departments are supported
  • Support the wider team to ensure invoicing, orders and management of stock is completed accurately and on time.
  • Ensure effective communication with customers, third party logistics providers and distribution centres
  • Represent the business in supplier and partner meetings, negotiation of logistics contracts and ensuring high levels of service from third-party providers
  • Manage warehouse product stock levels and work closely with production team to ensure stock availability
  • Daily monitoring of stock levels and advising production of changes as required
  • Reviewing market data and creating associated reports and presentations
  • Oversee day to day management of the office environment, ensuring it is well organised, efficient and supportive of team productivity.
  • Identify and implement process improvements across administrative, stock and distribution workflows to improve efficiency and reduce cost.
  • Weekly review of production data within ERP system, reviewing outputs and auditing the data submitted by production.
  • Development and monitoring of EDI system integration with our ERP system.
  • Ensure compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements, particularly around food safety, health and safety, and data handling.
  • Performing other general office management duties as required

Please note that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship; therefore, candidates must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application

As the role is based in a location with limited public transport and links, applicants should have access to their own transport