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JD.com

E-commerce, logistics, and technology platform

Sorting Team Leader

Warehouse & FulfillmentConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMilton Keynes, UKNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Previous experience in a warehouse, parcel sortation, logistics, or a similar operational environment.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-volume PM operation.
  • Strong awareness of productivity, quality, attendance, and health and safety requirements.
  • Ability to make quick operational decisions and manage changing priorities.
  • Comfort using warehouse systems, scanners, and basic reporting tools.
  • Flexibility to support peak periods, overtime, and changing operational requirements where necessary.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate the PM shift sortation team to achieve daily volume, productivity, and quality targets.
  • Allocate manpower across sortation lines and work areas based on parcel volume and operational priorities.
  • Conduct shift briefings and communicate targets, workload, safety requirements, and key operational updates.
  • Monitor attendance, lateness, and staffing levels, and promptly escalate manpower shortages.
  • Monitor parcel flow throughout the shift and take immediate action to resolve backlogs, missorts, and bottlenecks.
  • Ensure sortation activities are completed before relevant outbound and line-haul cut-off times.
  • Monitor team and individual productivity and provide coaching or corrective guidance where required.
  • Ensure parcels are scanned, handled, and sorted accurately in accordance with standard operating procedures.
  • Coordinate with inbound, outbound, transportation, and line-haul teams to ensure smooth handovers.
  • Manage agency workers and new starters during the shift, including task allocation, performance monitoring, and basic training support.
  • Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements, site rules, and operational procedures.
  • Escalate equipment faults, safety incidents, staffing issues, and operational exceptions to the Sortation Supervisor or Manager.
  • Maintain accurate shift records, including attendance, headcount, productivity, backlog, and operational exceptions.
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives to improve sortation efficiency, quality, and overall shift performance.

Desired Qualifications

  • Previous Team Leader or supervisory experience.

About the Company

JD.com

E-commerce, logistics, and technology platform

JD.com is a large Chinese e-commerce company that sells products directly to consumers and hosts a marketplace where third-party sellers list items. The company relies on its own extensive logistics network to store, pick, pack, and ship orders quickly, offering options such as same-day and next-day delivery. Its platform combines an online store, a marketplace, and technology-enabled services to support its retail and logistics operations. Unlike many competitors, JD.com owns much of its logistics infrastructure and emphasizes supply chain technology to control quality, speed, and efficiency across its products and services, including electronics, healthcare, and property development ventures. The goal is to be a leading, integrated e-commerce and technology platform in China, continually expanding its logistics capabilities, technology solutions, and services for both consumers and third-party sellers.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Haidian, China
Founded
1998

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