Charlton Inventory & Process Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Stock Manager to join our successful team at the Charlton Sainsburys site. This is an excellent opportunity to work as part of a management team that promotes culture, performance, and engagement with its talented teams. Reporting to the General Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the warehouse stock and systems teams ensuring key stakeholder and customer requirements are met.

Salary: Competitive

Hours of work: 37.5 Hours

How will you contribute?

• Responsible for the overall management of stock and system team for the site.
• Coordinating cycle counting disciplines and producing analytical data from the results that identifies trends and recommends corrective action.
• Ensure the routines of layout maintenance, housekeeping processes and health checks are completed in line with the agreed schedules.
• Ensure appropriate stock procedures and processes are documented and regularly reviewed to evidence compliance.
• Deliver the contractual Key Performance Indicators relating to stock management.
• Manage the customers stock loss to ensure the account isn’t over tolerance.
• Manage a team of administrators ensuring the department runs efficiently and within budget constraints.
• Develop and manage customer and departmental relationships with key stakeholders.
• Ensure that the Warehouse Management Systems and its associated administration consistently meet the site and customer expectations.
• Responsible for audit checks, stock damage limitation and where required the introduction of corrective action.
• Recruit, train, motivate and mentor team members to ensure flexible team with the ability to achieve KPI’s.
• Support system projects to ensure stock integrity is maintained.
• Effectively contribute as part of the site managerial team to support positive behaviour and culture.
• Identify opportunity for, and to instigate procedure and process improvements as part of a continuous improvement culture.
• To adhere to and follow Company policies/procedures, including Quality, Health, and Safety to ensure compliance to statutory obligations.
• Responsible for Health and Safety of themselves and other team members by adhering to safe working practices.

What will you bring?

• Stock management/relevant industrial experience.
• People management skills and the ability to manage a team.
• Computer literate with experience of Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, and Warehouse Management Systems.
• A strong financial understanding in an environment linked to stock.
• Confident in the gathering, cleansing, and summarising data for presentation in numerical and graphical reporting formats.
• Attention to detail and the ability to analyse data.
• Ability to work autonomously, as well as part of a team.
• Problem-solving skills.
• A flexible and organised approach with the ability to prioritise workloads to meet tight deadlines.

What do we offer?

In addition to a generous salary, we really value our people and offer a friendly, safety-first working environment, along with other benefits including company pension scheme, generous holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee benefits include online discount platform, onsite parking and much more. Our people are at the core of our business and what makes Wincanton great. That’s why we also provide significant opportunities for career development and progression, as well as training enrichment and multi-skilling, in a dynamic working environment. Be a part of our values; Excellence, Integrity, Passion, Proactivity, Togetherness & Trust.

Our Commitment

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel safe, supported and valued, whilst feeling they can be their whole selves within our workplaces. We are proud that our colleagues represent us and our successes. Attracting diverse teams, we believe in creating an inclusive, respectful organisational culture for our colleagues and future talent.