As a member of the Ship Bob Team, you will...

• Grow with an Ownership Mindset: We champion continuous learning and proactive innovation. Team members are encouraged to identify challenges and take ownership of initiatives that drive merchant, company and personal growth. By tackling complex problems and exploring creative solutions, you won’t just follow a playbook, you’ll be actively building the future of Ship Bob.

• Collaborate with Peers and Leaders Alike: Ship Bob values collaboration and support, where team members and leaders alike are committed to helping each other succeed. We all sethigh standards and understand the importance oftransparency at all levels. We’ve created an environment where trust, open communication, and mutual respect motivate our teams to reach new heights.

• Experience a High-Performance Culture and Clear Purpose: Our commitment to delivering results creates a goal-driven, high-performance culture where everyone is empowered to contribute to our mission with a clear understanding of their direct impact and accountability. We measure success in tangible ways, allowing each team member to see the positive outcomes of their work and celebrate shared victories.

Location & Travel: This role is based primarily based at our Manchester Fulfilment Centre (around 90%), with occasional travel within the UK and EU region, as required.

Role Description:

The role is an individual contributor responsible for developing and supporting our partner fulfillment centers to ensure they are all performing to the necessary standards. This role will oversee new startup functions including project management, systems training, and equipment set up. The Operations Support Manager will build solid partnerships with new, and existing, 3PL partner sites by understanding their unique needs and facilitating their success within Ship Bob’s dashboard and suite of fulfillment services. This role reports to the Senior Operations Support Manager who also serves as the backup for this role. This role reports to Senior Operations Support Manager.

What you will do:

Supporting our 3PLs:

Training: Coach and guide our 3PL partners to success defined by our metrics on the Ship Bob Scorecard.

• Set up tailored training sessions for all stakeholders based on merchant needs and specific dashboard configuration and functionality.

• Reinforce training materials, on an on-going basis, provided during Phase I and Phase II training to encourage self-service and seamless interaction with Ship Bob dashboard and services.

Troubleshoot: Find and Course-Correct.

• Support the relationship to handle questions, requests, and issues related to onboarding at Ship Bob as a 3PL partner site.

• Adoption: Inspire 3PL partner use of Key Ship Bob Features and Tools/Dashboard.

• Bridge Ship Bob 3PL partner objectives with Ship Bob capabilities to push use of key functions and features of operational WMS and SOP’s.

• Work with the 3PLs to ensure quality closure of internal tickets (proper root cause analysis and resolution).

Supporting the execution of Best-in-Class operations.

• Timely and accurate Inbound Operations that support fulfilment operations to commence accurately.

• Provide accurate, visual, and detailed feedback to our merchants, in case of expectations misalignment, through our support team.

• Value Added Service (VAS) Operations are being completed accurately by the 3PL and queries to requirements are being quickly resolved.

• Work with Freight partners to organize transport where coordination is required.

• Support the development of efficient and scalable kitting solutions as the sites and demand for solutions grow.

• Support the 3PL partners on CI and efficiency initiatives.

• Lease with Ship Bob internal stakeholders to coordinate resources and support 3PLs.

Supporting our Merchants:

Perform: Nail Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

• SLAs: Help 3PL partners achieve all key metrics (KPIs and SLAs) which foster a world class merchant experience.

• Work with the Merchant Experience Specialists (MES) to understand the Merchant Care Dashboard statistics and trends. Work with the 3PL on their specific improvement plans escalating to the site leadership team and your Line Manager if progress had not been made.

• Work closely with Merchant Implementation Managers and Merchant Support Managers to ensure that merchants onboarding/expanding into international locations receive an exceptional onboarding experience through focused action plans in their first 90 days, regular touch points with internal and external stakeholders and ensuring 3PLs understand pick/pack requirements.

• Weekly review of space utilization and opportunities to consolidate inventory IDs to reduce costs for the merchant. Work together with the 3PL to execute changes required.

• Work with 3PLs to resolve any urgent escalation or out of SLA request, with the merchant top of mind, and communicate outcomes accordingly to both Ship Bob and 3PL stakeholders.

Supporting our Internal Customers:

• Support the operational Support Team (Control Tower) in getting timely responses to operational queries, resolving escalations, and providing general status updates.

• Work with Merchant Care and Inventory Control Quality Assurance (ICQA) to ensure internal queries (Jira), our ticketing system, are responded to as thoroughly as possible with trends being resolved more tactically through root cause investigations.

• Attending Weekly Business Review calls with our 3PL partners, supporting follow-up actions for completion.

• Attend daily stand-up calls with internal teams and take ownership of closing action items.

• Provide weekly reporting and visibility to our local commercial team.

• Support the National Ops Manager by taking on challenges and being prepared to be the next clear successor for this role.

• Comply to all food safety and compliance policies and regulations.

• Additional duties and responsibilities as necessary.

What you will bring to the table:

• Demonstrated ability to build solid relationships and get business done.

• Patience/Resilience: Knack for teaching and helping 3PL partners, ensuring adoption of Ship Bob SOP’s, tools, and WMS systems.

• Enjoyment of standardized processes, with a curious mind and CI mindset.

• Minimum 4-7 years of operations, e-commerce fulfillment experience, or a fast-paced environment and managing new teams and setting them up for success.

• Advanced understanding of either outbound or inbound fulfillment operations.

• Ability to be on-site up to 90% of the time, including weekends and nights, if necessary.

• Ability to consistently assess partner site needs and deliver solutions along with connecting partners to the appropriate resources within Ship Bob.

• Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office tools (MS Excel)

• Must have access to a vehicle for travel needs between locations.

Perks & Benefits:

• Medical and Wellness Benefits

• Life Assurance

• Income Protection

• Pension Scheme

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We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

About You:

The work we do at Ship Bob is both challenging and rigorous, which means our environment isn’t the right fit for everyone, and that’s okay. We welcome energetic high performers who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, results-driven environment. We value individuals who embrace accountability and humility, push boundaries, and are motivated by challenging work. Every team member, no matter their role or tenure, is expected to roll up their sleeves and tackle the complex problems we face in today’s global supply chain.

Learn more about our core values and how we perform at a high level in our day-to-day work on our Culture page (https://www.shipbob.com/careers/culture/).

About Us:

Ship Bob is a leading global supply chain and fulfillment technology platform designed for SMB and Mid-Market ecommerce merchants to provide them access to best-in-class capabilities and to deliver a delightful shopper experience. Merchants can outsource their entire fulfillment operations, utilize Ship Bob’s proprietary warehouse management system for in-house fulfillment, or take advantage of a hybrid solution across Ship Bob’s dozens of fulfillment center network in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Ship Bob is backed by leading investors like Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, and Soft Bank Vision Fund 2, and is one of the fastest-growing tech companies headquartered in Chicago.

*Ship Bob provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. *

*There is no deadline to apply for this position, as Ship Bob accepts applications on an ongoing basis. *