Stock Manager
Location: Broughton (CH4 0DR)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary: £42,000 per annum, plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Job
Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You’ll have an important part to play as an integral member of the Stock Management Team to maintain and improve all aspects of a multi-user site stock integrity. You will drive the business to operational excellence by utilising the internal principles, tools and techniques, ensuring all agreed SLA & KPI’s are consistently achieved.
Here at Unipart we don’t just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart's ‘From Gate to Great’ training and development program.
As Stock Manager you will drive continuous improvement and operational resilience within the site. You’ll coach and mentor the Stock Operations team to deliver the implementation of the Unipart strategy.
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:
Utilise internal principles, systems, tools and techniques to drive cost reduction and quality benefits
Reduce company stock liability through cyclical PI and monitoring the inbound, fulfilment, returns and repair stock movements
Plan and deliver the annual stock take
Ensure robust process improvements are in place to reduce stock/financial liability within the business
Revise and/or develop procedures to comply with ISO requirements as well as internal requirements
Highlight any critical/serious issues to the senior management team
Identify and project manage corrective actions across operations to ensure the business has the most efficient systems in regard to stock at all times
Develop the Stock Control team, ensuring succession planning to compliment the departments strategy and meet the business’ needs
Support commercial with new implementations and attend client reviews
Manage and motivate a team, setting clear KPI’s and objectives to ensure high standards of achievements
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!
Ability to drive operational excellence, utilising problem-solving tools (8D’s, 5Y’s, Fishbone etc) and root cause analysis techniques
Experience with SAP WMS or similar
Demonstrable team leadership and development
Strong experience as a quality technician
Good understanding of standard terms and conditions to mitigate legal and commercial risk
Ability to revise/develop procedures to comply with ISO requirements
Commercial and financial awareness
Clear written, verbal and presenting communication skills
Flexible and self-motivated with a commitment to achieving team/site objectives whilst being adaptable when required
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 of the following: Stock Manager, Stock Control Manager, Inventory Manager, Inventory Control Manager, Warehouse Stock Manager, Stock Operations Manager, Supply Chain Stock Manager, Logistics Stock Manager, etc.
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