Reed Talent Solutions are working with Cadent Gas on the search for Inventory Agent. A suitable candidate will have SAP S4 HANA experience in Inventory within Central Warehouse or Satellite Depots, someone who is used to Stock/Inventory by using Excel/Data.
Role details:
- Job title: Inventory Agent
- Location: Cadent Distribution Centre,Off Bromford Gate, Bromford Lane, Erdington, Birmingham, B24 8DW
- Contract: temporary ongoing, this could become a permanent position for the right candidate
- Pay rate: £13.89 per hour
- Working hours: 37.5 hours per week with 30 mins lunch. Daily working hours will be discussed at the interview
- Start date: ASAP
- Recruitment process: short-listing call with Reed, in person interview with Cadent Gas
Generic Role Description:
- Provide administrative support to the team.
- Provide advice and support via different communication channels.
- Maintain and develop working relationships.
- Work within and promote the philosophy of safe team working.
- Willing to learn and gain knowledge of Cadent's Core Policies and Procedures.
- Ensure efficiency and compliance to all company policies.
- Actively demonstrate and promote the Cadent Values, and positively contribute to a customer- oriented approach.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and service excellence by adhering to agreed standard operating procedures and making suggestions for improvements.
Functional Accountabilities:
- Cadent Supply Chain teams look after the external costs and are responsible for the end-to-end supply chain ensuring goods and services are provided to the areas of the company that require them in the most efficient, safe, legal and timely manner.
- Responsible for the creation and extension of material codes across all plants in Logistics (NDC & Secondary Depots)
- Responsible for monitoring stock turnover ratio across all plants in Logistics and setting Re-order point/Min/Max levels accordingly.
- Performing analysis on material usage at SKU level, advising and recommending where SKUs should be removed from stockkeeping.
- Raising Purchase Orders to satisfy demand accordingly within defined parameters, managing orderbooks and expediting purchase orders with suppliers where necessary.
- Owning Category's and managing supplier non-conformances through to resolution
- Undertaking / managing key transactional processing activity for Supply Chain teams.
- Production of Management Information and reporting, providing analysis and insight to support effective action planning and decision making.
- Accountable for creation and review of reports and monthly trend analysis
- As required, working with stakeholders to develop our suite of management information reports, ensuring they meet business needs, and the data is captured accurately.
Suitable Candidate will:
- Possesses an understanding of the Supply Chain and Logistics processes, including the various buying channels and material distribution methods deployed by Cadent and other organisations.
- Practical understanding of problem solving and continuous improvement techniques
- Ability to create structured reports using multiple channels for different audiences.
- Ability to use Microsoft Excel to an intermediate level, including the use of vlookup, PivotTables, and formulas.
- Practical understanding of SAP S4 HANA (Inventory), procurement systems and WMS systems
- Possesses personal organisation skills, including workload management and prioritisation.
- A high level of verbal and numerical reasoning skills
- Logistics / Supply Chain experience in a highly transactional/product related environment
- Strong Query management / resolution skills
- Strong Analytical Skills
- Practical knowledge and experience of SAP S4 HANA - Training will be provided
- Customer focused with a track record of delivering excellent customer experience.
- Able to listen to their customers and stakeholders effectively, supporting a culture of engagement, ownership and accountability to doing the right thing for the customer at all levels.
- Demonstrates examples of excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills (both internal and external). Can build strong working relationships with numerous stakeholders, and able to work in sometimes challenging environments.
- Can communicate up to a senior level with credibility and authority. Able to pitch their message at the right level for the audience.
- Shows a strong and visible commitment to their own development including learning from external sources.
- Able to work under own initiative and to deadlines.