Goods-In Materials Manager

Materials and Stores Manager

Somerset (Weston-super-Mare)

£50,000 – 65,000 (Flexible for right candidate) + Excellent Benefits

The Company

Our client is a specialist Automotive supplier working in partnership with OEM’s to provide high-quality re-manufactured parts. After being established over 70 years ago they have been through modernisation in recent decades and are seeing huge year on year growth as they continue strengthening their relationship with one of the leading Automotive manufactures in the UK.

The company employs 70+ staff and has a £multi-million turnover and due to the need for succession planning, a Materials and Stores Manager is now required to provide direction, guidance and management to the Goods-in, stores and goods-out team to ensure an efficient process for materials coming into and leaving the businesses as well as ensuring efficient materials availability for manufacturing.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking for a leadership role from a background in materials, logistics or goods-in with huge prospects to develop into a more commercially focussed senior management position in the next two years.

The Role

The Materials & Stores Manager will have responsibility for the stores, goods-in and goods-out within the business and will be 80% operational leadership, with a further 20% spent planning for future growth.

Responsibilities of the team being managed;

• Oversee the goods inwards all of parts coming into stores
• Breaking down the parts into individual components for storage
• Ensuring all components are stored and logged correctly in the ERP system
• Getting finished assembled products ready for collection by the customer
• Ensure inventory levels for components are correct

Overseeing a team of 8, the general duties for the Goods-in Materials Manager will include;

• Coordinating daily workflow with the team
• Ensuring production have the necessary components for assembly
• Training and development of the team
• Recruitment of new team members
• Running team meetings to discuss workflow challenges and areas of improvement
• Conducting regular inventory assessment and audits

Success in this role will be measured in various ways including the time it takes for goods to be successfully entered into stores and recorded into the ERP as well as the accuracy of the inventory to ensure that components are always available when needed by line for production.

The Candidate

To be successful in your application for this Materials and Stores Manager role you will need;

• A background within logistics, goods-in, materials or warehouse management in a leadership capacity
• Familiarity with a complex and multi-faceted materials environment
• Strong leadership or management skills with the ability to galvanise a team towards a common goal.
• Very good communication, organisational and influencing skills.
• To have high standards and to be happy to challenge others to meet those standards.
• Be accomplishment driven with a desire to progress and take on further responsibilities

The Benefits

For this Materials and Stores Manager the following benefits are on offer:

• £50,000 – 65,000 basic salary
• Progression and development to more senior roles in the next two years
• Excellent additional benefits
• A nine day fortnight – the business works Monday – Thursday every other week.

Equal Opportunities

ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.