Here at BevChain, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Linfox, we are leaders in beverage supply chain solutions. As industry specialists, we partner with major customers, including some of Australia’s top beer, wine, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverage brands. Our mission is to provide our customers with a competitive advantage through industry leading innovations in safety, sustainability and efficiency. Linfox is Asia Pacific's largest privately owned logistics business, and BevChain benefits from Linfox’s extensive scale, resources and logistics network. Create a career to be proud of. Expect all this and more when you join us at BevChain.
What does the job look like?
As the Operations Manager, you will be passionate about the logistics industry, your people, and our customers, and will relish the opportunity to lead by example. This exciting opportunity at our Distribution Centre in Laverton. You will be responsible for maintaining an efficient and productive warehouse team working in collaboration with our people, with every decision you make driven by safety, service, and cost. By partnering closely with the Distribution Centre Manager, you will ensure we exceed operational and service metrics while finding opportunities to introduce continuous improvement initiatives. Key areas:
- Lead the strategic and operational direction of the VIC Distribution Centre in line with company values, objectives, and service expectations.
- Develop, coach, and engage leaders and team members, fostering a performance-driven and accountable culture.
- Provide hands-on leadership to direct reports and warehouse teams to deliver safe, efficient, and high-performing operations.
- Ensure effective utilisation of labour, equipment, and resources to maximise productivity and operational outcomes.
- Analyse weekly and monthly KPI reporting to identify opportunities for improvement and drive performance in line with financial budgets.
- Proactively engage with external labour agencies to address workforce demands and manage labour shortages.
- Drive continuous improvement across safety, productivity, service, and cost by developing, reviewing, and updating warehouse processes and procedures.
- Champion health and safety compliance, ensuring all policies, procedures, and legislative requirements are followed.
- Develop, coach, and engage leaders and team members, fostering a performance-driven and accountable culture.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with customers and key internal Stakeholders, Customer Service, Transport & External Stakeholders .
Are you the one?
This is a pivotal role that requires a strong manager with previous operations management experience. You will be able to shape an inclusive and accountable culture in a fast-paced environment and will have a wealth of experience providing leadership and effective commercial and operational decision-making. You can demonstrate: You can demonstrate:
- You are a seasoned, visible leader who leads from the front, able to step confidently into the operation while setting clear strategic direction for the site.
- You bring demonstrated P&L ownership at a senior level, with a deep understanding of operational cost drivers, budgeting, and commercial decision-making.
- You operate with a highly structured and disciplined approach, balancing big-picture objectives with close attention to operational detail and execution.
- You communicate with impact and credibility across all levels—from frontline teams to senior stakeholders—driving alignment and decisive action.
- You are a driven and accountable leader with strong personal integrity, earning trust through consistency, reliability, and follow-through.
- You are an experienced coach of leaders, capable of developing supervisors and managers while remaining actively involved in frontline performance and outcomes.
- You set clear expectations and drive accountability, ensuring standards, processes, and behaviours are consistently applied across the operation.
- You are a collaborative senior team player who can quickly embed into the business, take ownership, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
- You bring extensive, hands-on experience in logistics and operations management, ideally within complex warehouse or distribution centre operations.
What's in it for me?
- 12 weeks paid parental leave and return to work bonus for eligible employees
- Career development opportunities and mentoring programs
- Access to a range of benefits across dining and adventure, travel and health and well-being
- The chance to work in a high-performing team where your contributions truly make an impact
At Linfox, we focus on providing an inclusive and diverse workplace where our people can perform at their best. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and perspectives; with people of diverse genders, ages, religions, abilities, sexual orientations and cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) encouraged to apply.
Sound like you? Please click the apply button to submit your application and resume.
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Further information
You will be required to meet BevChain's employment criteria which will include but not be limited to a criminal history check and full medical with a drug and alcohol test.
To find out more about opportunities at Linfox, visit www.linfox.com/careers
