Warehouse Supervisor

At Hollister, our Distribution Operations teams play a critical role in ensuring life-changing medical products reach customers and patients safely, accurately, and on time. As a Supervisor, you will lead a team of 15–30 associates within our European Distribution Centre, creating a safe, engaged, and high-performing work environment while driving operational excellence.

This hands‑on leadership role combines people leadership, operational execution, performance management, and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for translating business priorities into clear direction for your team, developing employee capability, and ensuring safety, quality, service, and productivity expectations are consistently achieved.

Working closely with Working Coordinators, Operations Management, and support functions, you will maintain a strong presence on the warehouse floor and play a key role in delivering reliable distribution performance that supports both our customers and the patients who depend on our products.

Location: Roosendaal, The Netherlands
Department: Operations
Reports To: Warehouse Operations Manager
Direct Reports: Approximately 15–30 Employees

This is an on‑site leadership position within our European Distribution Centre

This hands‑on leadership position combines people management, operational execution, performance management, and continuous improvement. The Supervisor coaches and develops employees, drives engagement and accountability, actively manages performance, and ensures safety, quality, service, and productivity targets are consistently met. Working closely with working Coordinators and cross‑functional teams, the Supervisor maintains a strong and visible presence on the shop floor to support operational excellence and team success.

The Supervisor leads a team of approximately 15–30 employees within a complex, high‑volume medical device distribution operation. The role is responsible for ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable daily operations while translating site priorities into clear direction for employees on the shop floor.

1. People Leadership and Engagement
Lead, coach and motivate employees through visible and consistent leadership, clear expectations, regular feedback and effective performance management, while building a culture of trust, respect, accountability and continuous improvement.

2. Daily Operational Execution
Organize and manage daily work within the assigned area, ensuring appropriate staffing, skills and resources are available and that workload, priorities and production targets are executed safely, reliably and on time.

3. Performance Management
Actively monitor KPIs covering safety, quality, service, productivity, cost and attendance, identify deviations and root causes, and implement timely corrective actions to restore or improve performance.

4. Safety, Quality and Compliance
Ensure employees consistently follow applicable safety, quality, regulatory and operating procedures, address unsafe or non‑compliant situations immediately and support investigation and follow‑up of incidents, deviations and corrective actions.

5. Workforce and Attendance Management
Manage daily staffing, absence, leave, time registration and workforce availability, ensuring appropriate coverage while maintaining disciplined attendance and absenteeism management in cooperation with HR and Operations Management.

6. Communication and Daily Management
Lead daily team meetings, briefings and performance discussions, ensuring employees understand operational priorities, KPI performance, issues, actions and relevant site or business communications.

7. Continuous Improvement
Identify and implement opportunities to improve process efficiency, productivity, quality and…