Branch Manager

Lead branch operations, safety and service delivery. Develop a hands-on team and drive a can-do culture. Oversee budgets, inventory and performance in a practical leadership role.

As the Branch Manager at Yatala Branch Bunzl Safety & Lifting, you will lead the branch’s day-to-day operations, ensuring the team delivers strong operational, safety, customer service and financial outcomes. This hands-on role combines time with the operations team and field technicians with planning, forecasting and reporting in the office. You will oversee inventory and stock control, dispatch, invoicing and delivery performance, while fostering a can-do attitude and growth mindset across the team.

• Lead day-to-day branch operations, ensuring compliance with operational procedures and maintaining a strong focus on workplace safety.
• Manage branch budgets, forecasting and P&L reporting, while overseeing dispatch, invoicing and delivery performance to ensure customers receive their orders in full and on time.
• Build strong customer relationships, resolve service issues promptly and support customer meetings where required, including partnering with the Account Manager.

As the ideal candidate, you are a practical, hands-on leader with experience managing branch, warehouse or operational teams. You are equally comfortable planning and reporting in the office, supporting the team in the warehouse and visiting field technicians on-site. You bring a can-do attitude, a growth mindset and the confidence to take ownership of branch performance.

• Demonstrated experience leading and developing an operational, warehouse or branch-based team, with the ability to motivate employees, manage performance and foster a positive, accountable culture.
• A strong commitment to workplace safety, employee welfare and operational compliance, including the confidence to conduct regular on-site welfare checks with field technicians.
• Commercial awareness and customer service experience, with the ability to monitor budget performance, contribute to customer meetings and identify opportunities for operational growth.

Bunzl offers a broad and flexible range of benefits to our team including a profit share scheme for eligible employees, exclusive motor vehicle and health insurance products, travel and accommodation discounts, study assistance, many wellbeing and community programs, and access to discounted Bunzl products.

At Bunzl we believe that through diversity we build strength and support the principle of equality and diversity in employment. We oppose all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

If you have a disability or special need that requires support or adjustments to working or interview arrangements, please let us know.

At Bunzl, we believe that when you join our team, your potential is endless. Because at Bunzl… We believe in you! If you like the sound of this, then we want you on our team.