FM Stores Supervisor

Serco; Larbert; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Training & apprenticeships

Wellbeing & support services

Employee discounts

Volunteer day

Inclusive recruitment commitment

Job summary

Serco at Forth Valley Hospital in Larbert is seeking a Stores Supervisor to lead the day-to-day stores operation, ensuring critical materials, consumables, tools and equipment are available to support essential hospital services.

You will manage stock, supervise stores colleagues, coordinate suppliers, maintain CAFM records, and drive continuous improvement to enhance service delivery and patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience in stores, logistics or inventory management environments.
• Strong organisational skills with ability to prioritise workloads.
• Confident using computer systems and analysing information for decisions.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building with colleagues and suppliers.
• Proactive approach with focus on quality, continuous improvement and customer service.

Responsibilities

• Manage stock, equipment and materials to meet operational requirements.
• Maintain accurate inventory records and monitor stock levels using CAFM.
• Source, purchase and order products, ensuring value and compliant processes.
• Organise and supervise monthly/annual stock takes and stock control.
• Allocate work and supervise stores colleagues daily.
• Drive continuous improvement to enhance service delivery and efficiency.

Skills

Stock management

Inventory control

CAFM system

Communication

Prioritisation

Team supervision

Tools

CAFM software

Job description

Serco: Forth Valley Hospital, Larbert, FK5 4WR

Permanent, Full Time (Mon-Fri, 8:00-16:00)

Agenda for Change - Competitive Salary

Ready to impact a better future?

As a Stores Supervisor in our Health team at Forth Valley Hospital, you'll lead the day-to-day operation of the stores function, ensuring critical materials, consumables, tools, and equipment are available when needed to support essential hospital services. Your work will help maintain safe, effective facilities management operations that support patients, visitors, and healthcare colleagues every day.

By ensuring stock is managed efficiently, suppliers are coordinated effectively, and continuous improvements are identified, you'll play an important role in creating impactful solutions that support healthcare delivery. Our work touches lives, and this role provides an opportunity to make a positive impact on communities while helping to impact a better future.

What You'll Do As a Stores Supervisor

• Manage stock, equipment, and materials to ensure operational requirements are met.
• Maintain accurate inventory records and monitor stock levels using the Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) system.
• Source, purchase, and order products and materials, ensuring value for money and compliance with agreed processes.
• Organise and supervise monthly and annual stock takes, maintaining effective stock control and security.
• Allocate work and provide day-to-day supervision to stores colleagues.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the stores environment to enhance service delivery and efficiency.

Does this sound like you?

• Experience within a stores, logistics, or inventory management environment.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and manage competing demands.
• Confident using computer systems and analysing information to support decision-making.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with colleagues, suppliers, and stakeholders.
• A proactive approach with a focus on quality, continuous improvement, innovation, and customer service.

What We Offer

• Competitive salaries with annual reviews
• Competitive contributory pension scheme with employers contributions, designed to be broadly comparable to other public sector pension arrangements.
• Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (we currently offer over 60 different apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression.
• Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Our employee networks support connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including veterans, LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

Vetting and checks

This role requires membership of the PVG Scheme, which involves a detailed check of spent and unspent convictions and other relevant information to ensure safeguarding compliance. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire so we can provide any necessary support to help you carry out your responsibilities.

A Little Bit About Us

At Serco, everyone plays a vital part in delivering essential public services that make a real difference. As a global team of 50,000 people across Defence, Transport, Justice, Immigration, Healthcare, Leisure and Citizen Services, we’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the services that communities rely on. Guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride, our people make meaningful impact, every single day.

Our Inclusive Recruitment Commitment

We prioritise your skills and potential. As a Disability Confident Leader, the Top Great British Employer of Veterans 2026, and a Gold Inclusive Employer Standard holder, we champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.

• Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.
• Ban The Box: We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).