Stores Manager

City Building; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

City Building is seeking an experienced Stores Manager to oversee the management of their stores division in Glasgow. This role involves leading stock management, ensuring customer service excellence, and implementing effective strategies for inventory control. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits, including a pension scheme and enhanced leave entitlements.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

Excellent annual leave entitlement

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption/shared parental leave

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in managing stores or inventory.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to implement effective stock control strategies.

Responsibilities

• Manage the City Building Stores functions effectively.
• Ensure sufficient stock is available to meet operational needs.
• Implement strategies for managing stock security and delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Service

Stock Management

Problem Solving

Job description

City Building, 350 Darnick Street, Glasgow G21 4BA [phone]

City Building provides a range of repairs and maintenance, manufacturing, construction and refurbishment activities for Glasgow City Council and Wheatley Housing Group’s citizens and customers as well as other public, private and third sector organisations.

City Building operates both the largest construction craft apprenticeship programme in Scotland, and Royal Strathclyde Blindcraft Industries (RSBi), one of the largest supported manufacturing businesses in Europe, around 200 people, more than 50% of whom have a disability.

Our accreditations include, ISO45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001:2015. We are current recipients of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promoting Opportunity and Investors in Young People Platinum award. Both these accolades recognise our focus on investing in and growing a skilled staff base.

We are seeking an experienced individual to manage our extensive and busy stores division of the business to allow us to deliver excellent customer service.

The Stores Manager is a key member within City Building and is responsible for the effective management of the City Building Stores functions. The role will be to provide effective leadership and management in the delivery of all services under your control and in line with business and customer needs.

You will add value to the business and have specific responsibility for liaising with the operations division to ensure sufficient stock holding is available and delivered to meet operational and customer requirements. You will also be required to implement strategies aimed at successfully controlling and effectively managing the security of all stockholding within all store’s areas under your direct control. You will have responsibility for the effective utilisation of resources in the provision of a stores and material delivery service to deliver excellent customer service. You will manage document storage and retrieval as well as management of the furniture (personal belongings) in and out of stores

You will play a key role in the provision of material management including quality issues reviewing where necessary the effectiveness of any arrangements and providing innovative solutions for implementation with a focus on customer service.

You will be required to have a flexible approach to this role. Your contracted hours of work will be 35 hours per week to be worked to suit the needs of the business. As an employee of City Building, you will also receive the following benefits:

– A rewarding career with a competitive salary.
– Access to contributory pension scheme – Strathclyde Pension Fund.
– Excellent annual leave entitlement
– Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption/shared parental leave
– Access to excellent health and wellbeing initiatives

This is a fixed-term position for up to six-months.

Please refer to the role profile for further details on the role however if you would like to have an informal chat about the role then please contact:

• Ben Kerr, RSBi and Stores and Distribution Manager Tel No: 0141 287 0804/07801 394 194

If you feel, you have the necessary skills and experience for this role then please forward your CV along with a completed Supporting Statement to the People Services Team, [e-mail] by close of business on Monday, 12 May 2025

City Building is a highly successful and evolving business which has a proven track record of strategic delivery within the commercial marketplace.

• City Building, 350 Darnick Street,
  Glasgow G21 4BA