We are looking for a commercially minded Solutions Design Manager to join our Business Development Excellence team. In this role, you will lead the design, modelling, and optimisation of integrated logistics solutions across warehouse and transport operations, helping shape high-performing, scalable solutions for new business, renewals, and continuous improvement programmes.
You will combine operational expertise, data-driven insight, and strong commercial awareness to create solutions that are practical, cost-effective, and service-led. Working closely with sales, operations, engineering, IT, finance, and customers, you will play a key role in ensuring every solution is operationally viable, financially robust, and aligned to wider supply chain strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Design & Modelling
Design integrated warehouse and transport solutions, including:
- Warehouse layouts, storage strategies, picking methods, automation concepts, and labour models
- Transport network design (trunking, cross-dock, final mile, multi-drop, fleet strategies)
Build detailed models covering capacity, throughput, routing, and cost using tools such as Excel, Power BI, WMS/TMS data, routing software (e.g. Paragon), and CAD
Analyse customer data (volumes, SKUs, order profiles, delivery patterns, geography)
Evaluate automation and technology solutions (e.g. AMRs, AS/RS, TMS, route optimisation) to assess ROI and operational impact
Project Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
Lead solution design workstreams across tenders, RFQs, renewals, and optimisation projects
Present proposals to senior stakeholders and customers with clarity and commercial focus
Support mobilisation teams to ensure smooth transition from design to live operation, and working with cross-functional teams
Commercial & Strategic Contribution
Develop cost models, pricing inputs, and business cases
Identify opportunities for cost reduction, efficiency gains, and service improvements
Support wider strategic initiatives including network redesign, expansion, and automation roadmaps
Data & Continuous Improvement
Use data insights to refine and challenge solutions
Develop and maintain standardised tools, templates, and modelling frameworks
Drive continuous improvement in solution quality and consistency
Apply on company website Coventry Road, LE17 4XH Lutterworth, United Kingdom Hybrid Full-time
Culina Group is hiring a Solutions Design Manager
About company
We are a market leading ambient and chilled food & drink 3PL specialist, providing warehousing, distribution, contract packing and a bonded division with extensive expertise in relation to dutiable goods across the UK and Ireland. We have recently added both Fresh and Food Manufacturing divisions and are looking towards the future and the continuation of being one of the leading logistics companies within the UK.
Using modern IT infrastructure, including warehouse management systems, satellite tracking and client interfaces we are able to offer unrivalled customer support, ensuring that you always know where your products are. Online up to date data is always available through customer web portals allowing you to track your goods from anywhere, while a significant investment of over £2.5m in customer service infrastructure over the last five years ensures that we exceed customer expectations not just once or twice, but every single time.
Working hand in hand with some of the globe's leading brands and manufacturers is an everyday event at Culina Group, plus with a multitude of own-label producers and developing companies, all are catered for with an efficient and flexible infrastructure. Importantly, our strategic focus is on food & drink logistics within a shared-user environment, which is driven by volume and critical mass. This ultimately delivers an efficient and cost effective solution for clients of all sizes.
We are committed to future proofing our business by investing in teams, network, systems, sector and the environment, which will ensure we continue to provide clients with a robust supply chain platform which performs beyond expectations every day. The latest two service additions of Fresh and Food Manufacturing are testament to this ethos, ensuring that we continue to become a leading light within the logistics industry.