Location
: Mercia Park, Appleby Magna
Contract type
: Full time
Hours:
40 hours per week
Salary:
£80,000 per annum, plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Job
As Head of Stock, Quality and Material Flow, you will be responsible for all elements of stock and space management within the new Mercia warehouses. You will lead site stock teams and support the operation in meeting and exceeding our KPIs in order to drive world class service to our customers through the implementation of Unipart logistics stock excellence and storage principles. You will provide subject matter expertise to support the business in reducing stock risk through a period of transformation.
As part of your key responsibilities you'll:
- Lead site stock teams to ensure stock risks on site are effectively mitigated
- Ensure risks are managed and mitigated through projects and process improvements
- Identify and deliver initiatives that reduce costs and/or improve the customer experience through greater stock control and accuracy.
- Ensure clear and auditable stock processes are in place at all sites, financial and commercial
- Drive the stock performance within tolerance and ensure costs are controlled and mitigated
- Ensure all potential risks are identified, addressed and communicated appropriately to operational standards
- Be accountable for performance of Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators
- Provide effective comms, updates and escalations as required up to director level.
- Be responsible for effective two-way communication processes with team, customer and clients
- Ensure reporting of performance is clear, adds value, delivers insight and meets both internal and external customer requirements.
- Identify trends, risks and concerns from data output to drive the appropriate focus and support – driving appropriate recommendations and decisions therein
- Ensure stock file management and integrity is maintained and operates in a robust manner that delivers the effective and efficient management of the stock file process across the site
- Provide capacity to support UL (and others) should the request arise, through a consultancy methodology and best practice framework integrated partnership
About You
We'd love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you'd be able to perform well in this role!
- Analytical, Good MS Excel skills (incl. PivotTables & VLookups)
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Supplier and Inventory Management
- An understanding of WMS
- Proven experience of adapting to programmes of change
- Adapts to unexpected events and continues to deliver agreed plans and objectives.
- Resilient and calm under pressure.
- Proven track record of effectively managing a team, with excellent leadership skills
- Demonstrable knowledge of delivering against KPI's
- Stock Management and stock integrity
- Presentation Skills
- Work well in a team and good leadership skills
- Ability to work to targets and timescales
- Good written and verbal communication skills at all levels.
- Ability to cope with the demands of a fast moving and ever changing set of priorities,
- Working in a confidential environment
- Assertive and possesses an ability to influence
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.
You may have experience in the following: Head of Inventory Management, Director of Stock Control, Warehouse Operations Manager, Logistics Manager, Supply Chain Manager, Head of Warehouse Operations, Inventory Control Manager, Stock Integrity Manager, Head of Material Flow, Stock Quality Director, Warehouse Manager, Inventory Director, etc.
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