City Base Lead - Berlin (f/m/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · BER_A

Your mission

You are responsible for the day-to-day running of our largest city base in Berlin-Mitte. Your main responsibilities are:

  • Lead a local team of city base shift managers, riders, and warehouse associates through fostering personal development, instruction, daily supervision, active and transparent communication, regular one-on-one meetings, and providing support of all kinds.

  • Be the first point of contact for operational questions of your city base.

  • Communicate with various stakeholders, including shift managers, suppliers, landlords, recipients, neighbours.

  • Monitor and steer daily processes (i.e. receiving of supplier deliveries, putaway, picking, packing, delivery, returns) and improve them continuously.

  • Be accountable for city base performance and achieving operational KPIs.

  • Solve unexpected problems independently.

  • Pick & deliver orders.

  • Help define best-in-class warehouse layouts, processes, systems and management practices together with the operations team.

Job outcomes
  1. Achieve excellent operations and be willing to go the extra-mile for it.

  2. Grow the city base’s order processing capacity to 2,000 orders a week by scaling up resources and continuously improving productivity.

  3. Create and sustain a healthy work environment where people are happy and can grow personally (below-average staff turnover, high staff satisfaction).

  4. Achieve 99%+ order accuracy (delivered on time; all items correctly picked) and inventory accuracy.

Your profile
  • You have gained 3 to 5 years leadership experience in logistics or retail before.

  • You are a strong communicator - both verbally and in writing.

  • You have strong operations management skills.

  • Preferably you have experience in working with digital tools like warehouse management software and google workspace.

  • You are hands-on, results-driven, and have an eye for details.

  • You speak English fluently; German is a huge plus.

Our offering
  • Lead and be responsible for people, processes and things from day 1.

  • Have a defining impact on shaping & running the operations of one of Germany’s hottest logistics startups revolutionizing e-commerce logistics.

  • Grow and thrive in a high-paced environment with a strong emphasis on learning and personal development.

  • Take advantage of unlimited opportunities to advance within the company, solely based on your performance and fit with our values.

  • Enjoy the spirit and culture of a young startup with international and diverse co-workers.

About us

At dropp, we are shaping the future of last mile logistics. We are building a faster, greener and more consumer friendly post purchase experience for online brands.

dropp operates hyper local warehouses in the heart of German cities to provide same-day delivery within 3 hours, scheduled delivery and scheduled returns. We deploy our own fleet of riders with e-cargo bikes to ensure on time and environment friendly deliveries.
Our goal is to enhance the relationship brands and shops have with their end customers by building an outstanding post purchase experience: Customers are in control of when their order arrives and shops have the visibility they need to ensure the customer experience we provide meets their expectations.


At dropp we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. dropp is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. To avoid bias, we ask you to submit your CV without a picture.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!
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