Textile Manager

Job Details

Job role: Textile Manager

Location: Coventry site based

Employment type: Full-time Permanent

Salary: £35,000 to £38,000 per annum

Working Hours: Monday to Friday

• 33 Days Holiday
• Company Pension
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Employee Assistance Programme
• On-site Parking
• Private Medical
• Life Assurance

• Control the linen management for a site, ensuring that customer product availability is maximised whilst controlling the textile spend and ensuring that our client realise maximum value from their investment in textiles.
• Provide insight to & work with all stakeholders to ensure Customers are on service types and replenishment settings that are both appropriate to their needs and generate manageable demand to Production, flexing demand with the seasons.
• Act as a “Centre of Knowledge” for the best setup of customers within our clients systems, and for the range of textiles in use within the plants. As the Textile Manager for the Coventry site work directly with operational teams to ensure maximum utilisation of linen through best practice.
• Proactively monitor the demand into the site, highlighting where customer demands are difficult to fulfil, considering why and agree action plans.
• Liaising with colleagues in Account Management and Customer Services to address customer demands and drive best practice.
• Work with Operations Manager to ensure rewash and rag out processes on site are compliant with standards to minimise unnecessary linen investment.
• Monitor all elements of financial impact of the linen pool (Budgets)
• Forecast demand, taking into account seasonal demand and local events, ensuring service is maintained
• Provide weekly, Monthly, Quarterly reporting in line with business needs

• Ability to work cross-functionally with all levels and roles within the laundry.
• Good attention to detail, with the ability to analyse & interpret data, summarising it in an appropriate form for others
• Ability to organise self and others to ensure tasks are carried out in a timely manner
• IT literate (MS Office, ERP systems)
• To be flexible and able to react quickly to the needs of the customer and business.
• Educated to degree or equivalent / work experience working in a highly customer focused service environment.
• Experience of continuous improvement programmes

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity. Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Our client are able to offer, and encourage career growth, and have national coverage to facilitate ambition.

To apply please forward your updated cv to us without delay.