Job Description

Roster Team Manager | Crewe/Ferrybridge | Up to £42,000

A strong and decisive leader is required to join a leading UK freight operator as a Roster Team Manager to take charge of rostering operations. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring efficiency, compliance, and continuous improvement. This role is vital in shaping workforce planning, maintaining regulatory adherence, and driving operational success.

You will play a key role in optimising rostering processes, providing strategic oversight, and ensuring seamless coordination with trade unions and senior stakeholders. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced people manager with rostering expertise to bring leadership and innovation to the team.

Opportunity

• Prove your managerial skills and gain high levels of recognition for turning around the team
• Lead and mentor a long-standing team, promoting a high-performance culture.
• Manage a team of roster clerks, driving morale and team cohesion.
• Make it your own by driving change, implementing standardised processes, and consolidating individual ways of working.
• Potential for career growth, supported by a comprehensive benefits package, including a final salary pension after three years.

Package and Benefits

• Salary: Up to £42,000 + wider benefits
• Final salary pension scheme after 3 years with the business
• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
• Life assurance scheme
• Flexible benefits to support work-life balance

Working Arrangements

• Site-based, 40-hour weeks, at either Crewe or Ferrybridge

Candidate Essentials

• Strong people management skills (Essential)
• Experience in rostering, ideally with experience in compliance with terms and conditions and external governing bodies (Essential)
• Ability to assert themselves and manage upwards, including interactions with trade unions and senior leaders (Essential)
• Competence in using Outlook and Excel for data extraction and analysis (Essential)

 How the apply for the Roster Team Manager role

If you are interested in the Roster Team Manager role, then please apply via this job board. For more information, please get in touch with the Consultant listed on this page.

Likely Job Titles: Workforce Planning Manager, Resource Scheduling Manager, Operations Rostering Lead, Crew Scheduling Manager, Workforce Allocation Manager, Staffing & Scheduling Lead, Team Roster Coordinator

 About Ford & Stanley group
Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership and occupational mental fitness. We support our clients in their most challenging business areas - recruiting, developing and retaining the best talent from shop floor to boardroom.

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Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group Ltd is a Disability Confident employer that is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall adhere to such a policy at all times and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy.

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