Operations Associate - Production Stock Inventory Controller

Dishpatch collaborates with the UK's top chefs to deliver their restaurant creations to food enthusiasts nationwide. We work with renowned chefs to produce restaurant-quality meals that customers can easily finish and serve to family and friends at home.

We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Production Stock Inventory Controller to join our team. Working with our production chefs, fulfilment team and operations you will be essential to our inventory processes. You will be responsible for managing stock levels, processing deliveries, conducting inventory checks, and ensuring efficient stock control measures. You will need to have experience in a similar role, ideally within a food-related setting and have a strong IT and analytical mindset. If you have a passion for precision and experience in managing complex inventory within a manufacturing environment, and experience in food safety, we want to hear from you.

This role is known internally as Operations Associate - Inventory Controller.

In addition to your contractual pay, any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £4.25 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements.

Expected salary - Salary up to £32,000 depending on experience.

Contract type - This position is a Permanent contract.

Working pattern/flexible working - Full time up to 40 hours per week across 5 days (some weekend work may be required at times and shifts may vary in the future).

Location - This role is based at our Dishpatch production site in North Greenwich, London, SE10 0AT.

• You will be accountable for managing the transfer of fresh and finished products to chilled, frozen, or ambient storage and ensuring production stock levels are accurate.
• You will be responsible for managing all storage spaces, ensuring efficient stock storage, including overseeing production inventory processes to ensure adequate stock levels and accurate stock takes.
• You will also assist Production Chefs with ingredient management in fridges and freezers.
• Inspecting all incoming goods for quality, quantity, temperature, and proper documentation.
• Applying and printing correct product labels in compliance with food safety and traceability standards.
• You will support the management of Dishpatch’s HACCP and related Food Management systems.
• You will work to develop clearer communications with Central Production Units (CPUs).

• Extensive experience of inventory management principles and stock control.
• Substantial numerical and analytic skills.
• A significant understanding of the principles of Food Safety.
• Significant experience in warehouse operations environment.

• Experience working in a production kitchen environment.
• Knowledge in food allergens and ingredients is a valuable asset.
• Experience in WMS preferably Apicbase.

Closing Date: May 20, 2026

Pay: £29,000.00 - £44,300.00 Annual

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours of Work: Various full-time hours required

Job Level: Partnership Level 9

Where You'll Be Working: Greenwich (Dishpatch), Unit 1 & 2 City Cross Business Park, North Greenwich, SE10 0AT.

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us. We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect. We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective. As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note: It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants. We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.