Ancillary Services Manager
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Location: Heathrow Consolidation Centre (HCC)
Skills, Experience, Qualifications, If you have the right match for this opportunity, then make sure to apply today.
Reports to: Head of Customer Experience
We are looking for an experienced and proactive Ancillary Services Manager to lead and develop operational teams across multiple departments at Heathrow Consolidation Centre.
This is a varied leadership role with responsibility for Multiuser Warehouse operations, Additional Services, Customer Service, short-term strategic delivery, and quality assurance. You will play a key role in ensuring safe, efficient, compliant day-to-day operations while also driving process improvement, financial control, service excellence, and revenue growth.
The successful candidate will be a strong people leader with excellent operational knowledge, commercial awareness, and the ability to turn business priorities into clear, actionable plans.
Key responsibilitiesMultiuser Warehouse (MUW)- Manage day-to-day Multiuser Warehouse operations, ensuring safe, efficient and compliant performance.
- Act as the subject matter expert for OMNI and SOM systems, troubleshooting issues and resolving them wherever possible before escalating to IT.
- Maintain system data integrity and ensure adherence to operational workflows.
- Create, update and maintain training documentation, SOPs and process guides.
- Deliver training where required, while coaching and mentoring colleagues to improve capability and performance.
- Regularly review warehouse processes, identify inefficiencies and implement improvements.
- Work closely with the Heathrow Retail Account Manager, Senior Account Manager and Reach teams to support business-as-usual operations.
- Monitor KPIs and operational performance, addressing inaccuracies and underperformance proactively.
- Act as the escalation point for operational issues, investigations and stock discrepancies, ensuring timely root cause analysis and resolution.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety, company policies and audit requirements.
- Maintain accurate reporting and operational documentation for review by the Head of Customer Experience.
- Lead and manage day-to-day BAU operations within the Additional Services department, including parcel deliveries and oversight of monthly financial invoicing processes.
- Ensure services are delivered efficiently, accurately and in line with company KPIs and contractual agreements.
- Provide hands-on operational support where needed to maintain continuity and performance.
- Oversee financial reporting for Additional Services, ensuring accuracy, transparency and timely submission.
- Create and maintain a monthly review dashboard, providing analysis of revenue performance, trends and growth opportunities.
- Monitor revenue generation against targets, identifying risks and underperformance.
- Identify and develop new Additional Service opportunities across the business and Heathrow Airport to drive revenue growth.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to introduce and implement new service offerings.
- Ensure compliance with operational, financial and governance standards.
- Maintain accurate documentation, reporting and audit trails for all Additional Service activity.
- Act as escalation point for operational issues, including delivery investigations where applicable.
- Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the Customer Service department.
- Manage holiday approvals and coordinate sickness and holiday cover.
- Create, maintain and adjust staff rotas to ensure appropriate cover at all times.
- Monitor attendance and address absence issues as required.
- Oversee accurate logging and maintenance of call records in AMIS.
- Manage shared email inboxes, ensuring prompt and professional responses to external correspondence, including booking requests.
- Maintain high office standards, ensuring organisation, professionalism and compliance.
- Develop and implement customer service procedures and best practices.
- Identify and drive process improvements across the department.
- Ensure adherence to company policies and the BSL Labour Agreement.
- Monitor team performance, provide coaching and drive continuous improvement.
- Produce accurate operational reports for review by the Head of Customer Experience.
- Lead the development and execution of short-term strategic plans aligned with business priorities and operational objectives.
- Translate strategic goals into clear, actionable plans with defined timelines, deliverables and ownership.
- Monitor performance against targets, identifying risks and implementing corrective actions where needed.
- Analyse operational and financial data to support informed decision-making.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure aligned delivery of key initiatives.
- Provide regular progress updates and performance reporting to the Head of Customer Experience and Head of Operations.
- Conduct post-implementation reviews to assess impact and capture lessons learned.
- Remain flexible and adapt plans in response to evolving business needs and external factors.
- Provide guidance to management on process development, process support and conformance.
- Oversee Root Cause Failure (RCF) initiatives to address process anomalies, identify non-compliance and support corrective action.
- Oversee implementation of Irreversible Corrective Actions (ICA) to reduce non-conformities, minimise operational disruption and improve resilience.
- Work in partnership with relevant Heads of Department to support strong internal and external audit results.
- Actively participate in Monthly Management Reviews (MMRs) and customer meetings, including monthly and quarterly reviews with HAL where required.
- Coach, mentor and support all levels of management in achieving operational excellence in innovation development, innovation execution, project management and process control.
- Act as the gatekeeper for knowledge-based solutions stored in the AMIS system.
- Support European deployment opportunities as they arise.
- Retail Business Partners
- Retail Inbound Suppliers
- HCC Head of Operations
- Head of Customer Experience
- Operational Managers
- Additional Services Team
- CTIMs
- HR
- Finance
- IT
- Line Level Leaders
- Strong operational leadership experience across warehousing, customer service or multi-function service environments
- Excellent people management, coaching and mentoring skills
- Strong commercial awareness and confidence working with financial and performance data
- Experience in process improvement, compliance, audits and operational reporting
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and departments effectively
- Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills
- Experience using operational systems such as OMNI, SOM and AMIS would be highly advantageous
Why join us?
This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a broad and impactful role within a fast-paced operational environment at Heathrow. xbpsjku You will have the chance to lead teams, improve performance, support strategic initiatives and help shape future service growth.
- Location:
- London
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Customer Service
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