Inventory Controller
The Opportunity:
You will take responsibility for overseeing the inventory of stock within this British Manufacturing business. Your report writing and data skills will be superb, and you'll have a good understanding of the supply chain process and inventory management. The role is key in providing transparent order status management, identifying potential restrictions and delivering a smooth customer journey from order to delivery.
What you'll be doing:
* Oversee all orders received within this busy manufacturing business and align inventory levels, working across multiple departments, communicating with them and producing data reports on stock and delivery.
* Communicate clearly onproduct fulfilment performance, lead times and stock challenges.
* Track purchase order due dates and provide visibility to colleagues across the entire business.
* Support forward planning by flagging availability issues.
* Work with Warehousing and Logistics on transfers, reallocations, and expedited shipments.
* Manage the full lifecycle of customer orders across multiple channels, ensuring completeness, awareness of availability and delivery of a quality product manufactured in this British company.
* Produce reports on fulfilment performance, backorders, and stock risks.
* Provide insights and recommendations to improve service and optimise inventory use.
* Supporting the maintenance of data quality - accurate order, inventory and delivery data in ERP/CRM systems.
Requires of You:
* Experience in order management, supply chain or customer services.
* Strong understanding of B2B and B2C order flows.
* Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
* Ability to analyse inventory and order data to make informed decisions and prioritise actions
* ERP/inventory management system knowledge
* A strong and confident communicator with cross-departmental collaboration skills.
* Proactive, solutions-focused mind set.
* Familiarity with production planning, purchasing, or logistics is an advantage.
Offers You:
Hours of work 9.00am 5.30pm
Life Assurance
Staff Discount
Cashplan Scheme
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
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