THE PROJECT / CONTEXT
Opened in 2008 (and relocated in 2012), DC Gliwice is a key logistical hub supplying two core CEE countries: Poland and Czech Republic. We also serve a growing number of 6 countries via our ambitious Crossborder project.
As we are now in transition mode switching to new organisational structure - we still have a warehouse leader and three area managers.
With a surface area of 30 000 sqm we are sending 28 million quantities to the 49 stores and 3 million to e-commerce clients in 2025. Throughout 2026, we will continue to expand the Crossborder project into East European countries, making this site critical to EDC share reduction.
With a competitive job market and a challenging human context our team of 250 Decathlonians is looking for the leader that will bring Gliwice DC to the next level of performance while driving a transformation defined by Logistics Masterplan.
Your Responsibilities
WAREHOUSE DIRECTOR
You will be the strategic leader in charge of all logistic operations for DC Gliwice & co-drawing and implementing the strategic directions for whole Polish logistics. You will define current and future resource needs, manage an annual operational budget of 10 M€, and build a high-performing managerial team that will make this project a solid reality.
Your core mission is to reinforce the human fundamentals of Decathlon and accelerate the logistic teams skills to support our expansion and growth across all delivered markets.
People
- Develop a managerial team, with potential profiles that can provide the best follow up and development to our front line team-mates
- Be an exemplary leader that inspires and spread the Decathlon Values and company culture by making them alive on a daily basis
- Lead by sense and asking “why”, in order to facilitate the teams development
- Increase the level of technical skills to facilitate the achievement of the established KPI’s
- Make DC Gliwice a preferred place to work by reaching 100% Satisfaction at work
Planet
- Find ways to decrease the carbon footprint in your activities
- Increase awareness of your team that will lead to many new planet-friendly initiatives
- Develop and propose actions that lead to less waste and more sustainable future
- Promote ecomobility solutions
Profit
- Manage costs and adapt it to reach long term targets
- Keep finding ways to increase efficiency of processes
- Organize work of teams to reach SLA level above 95%
- Develop and propose new services that can create additional benefits throughout the value chain
- Maintain and develop the cross function communication with the related teams (Supply and Commercial) in order to provide the best in class service
- Develop the internal and external network of connection that will allow us to drive the logistic transformation needed to accelerate in the conquer of the market share
Who Are You
The attitudes and behaviors we think are the key ones:
- You are ambitious and you set targets above market-level
- Giving sense to everyday work is your natural way of working
- You trust people and people trust you
- You make the work of your team easier
- You are sincere with yourself and others: you say what you think, you think what you say
- Curiosity is your second nature, you like thinking about the future
- You never give up on people and targets
The Skills We Defined As Needed
- You listen and you are listened to
- Taking courageous decisions is a source of energy
- Your level of English is fluent in both speaking and writing (B2)
- You have good work-life balance
- You make different people work together well
- You lead by giving an example
- You are flexible and fast adapt to any situation
Your Experience
Must have:
- You have already managed large group of people (indirectly more than 50 people)
- You have already proven your effectiveness by achieving results
- You have already managed multiple projects at the same time
Good To Have
- You are known for successfully developing autonomy within your teams.
- You have an experience in logistic on leader position
