Solution Design Manager

Contract Logistics Solution Design Manager       Role Summary     Solution Design Manager
All about you
You will be friendly, hard-working and love the buzz of getting things done. We love team players and here at DX we are committed to providing our people the technical and personal skills to progress their careers.

About us
We are a leading independent parcel, mail and logistics services company operating throughout the UK and Ireland delivering the important things in life. DX Freight provides next-day or scheduled delivery services for parcels and freight, as well as comprehensive logistics solutions, including warehouse management and the operation of customer-liveried vehicles. Our brand is what we do every day, and our values set the tone for how we want our colleagues to go about their business of delivering the Delivered Exactly promise.
What will it feel like to be part of our team?
At DX, we know our people are our foundation of success. We'll give you all the responsibility you need to develop yourself as an adaptable leader; with plenty of challenges to keep your career growing. If you want to develop your career, DX will provide the training and the opportunities! In addition, you will work with passionate and supportive people who are focused on meeting the DX Delivered Exactly promise.
Role summary:
Reporting to the Logistics Director, you will be the mastermind behind crafting both transportation and warehouse solutions tailored to our clients' needs. You will collaborate with customers to understand their logistical and warehousing requirements, and then design seamless, end-to-end solutions that integrate transport with warehousing operations.
You then may manage the deployment of projects that involve both transportation and warehouse operations. You will be the central coordinator ensuring that our warehouse activities and transport timelines align perfectly to meet project goals. You will define project scopes that include warehousing elements, oversee implementation, and keep everything running smoothly from the warehouse floor to the final delivery.
Engagement is key both with customers at operational and board level but with key internal departments/colleagues.
Key responsibilities
Engage with clients to gather and analyse both their logistics and warehousing needs (trunking and C&D location selection, cast modelling, opened verse open networks).
Design integrated solutions that include warehousing strategies such as storage optimization, inventory management, and efficient movement of goods in and out of the warehouse (automation reasoning, pick strategy, order flow distances, storage and despatch media).
Plan and manage projects that include both warehousing and transport components, ensuring cohesive execution (change management, PRINCE 2 or equivalent/experience, critical path analysis, interdependence mapping, MS project experience or equivalent).
Coordinate with warehouse teams to ensure inventory management and storage solutions are integrated into the overall project plan.
Monitor and report on both warehouse and transport milestones, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and any adjustments needed.
Introduce and execute productivity improvement, promoting increased efficiencies and service and quality performance in the operation.
Communicate, implement and maintain company policy and procedures throughout solutions designed or projects deployed.
Measures
Quality of solution design to meet customer requirements or options
Conversion of solution design to contract win
Accuracy of initial solution design to final operational way of working
Delivery of projects to time and budget
Management of ‘project scope creep'
Essential criteria for this role
Ability to understand,…