Operations manager cover letter example
An operations manager’s cover letter shows you can run their operation, not just yours. Name the post and the size of what you run now, give the budget and two results, describe one change you led without stopping the work, then say why this site.
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Rajan Mistry
Northampton · [email protected] · 07700 900886
17 October 2026
Ms Helen Pennock
General Manager
Swanfield Cold Chain
Unit 7, Kingsway Park
Daventry NN11 9ZZ
Dear Ms Pennock
Application for Operations Manager
I am applying for the Operations Manager post at your Daventry site. For five years I have run Meadway Logistics’ 24-hour chilled distribution centre in Northampton, with 140 staff over three shifts and four shift managers reporting to me.
I hold the site’s £6.2 million operating budget and have finished the last two years within 1% of it. With daily performance boards and shift reviews we raised pick accuracy from 99.2% to 99.7% and cut stock written off from 1.4% to 0.9% of sales.
In 2024 I led our move to a new warehouse management system and trained all 140 staff, and no store missed a delivery during the go-live. I also lead health and safety on site, where reportable accidents have fallen from five a year to one.
Your Daventry site is opening a second chilled hall next year, and I would like to build its operation from the first shift. My CV is attached. Thank you for considering my application.
Yours sincerely
Rajan Mistry
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Why each paragraph is there
I am applying for the Operations Manager post at your Daventry site. For five years I have run Meadway Logistics’ 24-hour chilled distribution centre in Northampton, with 140 staff over three shifts and four shift managers reporting to me.
The post and the size of the operation you run now.
I hold the site’s £6.2 million operating budget and have finished the last two years within 1% of it. With daily performance boards and shift reviews we raised pick accuracy from 99.2% to 99.7% and cut stock written off from 1.4% to 0.9% of sales.
The budget and two results with before and after figures.
In 2024 I led our move to a new warehouse management system and trained all 140 staff, and no store missed a delivery during the go-live. I also lead health and safety on site, where reportable accidents have fallen from five a year to one.
One change you led, and safety.
Your Daventry site is opening a second chilled hall next year, and I would like to build its operation from the first shift. My CV is attached. Thank you for considering my application.
Why this site, the CV and a short close.