Stores Supervisor

Snowfox Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension

Healthcare

Holiday allowance 24-26 days

Clancy Xtras

Employee discounts

Cycle to work

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Clancy in the United Kingdom is recruiting an experienced Stores Supervisor to lead the day-to-day operation of our Parts and Stores function within the Plant Team, ensuring parts and consumables are available to support fleet maintenance. Reporting to the Head of Fleet Procurement, the role covers stock control, supplier management, and supervising a team, with a focus on inventory accuracy and cost control.

A full UK driving licence and forklift qualification are required.

Qualifications

• Experience in stores supervision or similar within fleet or construction.
• Strong stock control and supplier coordination knowledge.
• Experience leading a team and coordinating workloads.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the daily operation of the central parts and stores facility.
• Managing goods-in and goods-out processes, ensuring stock movements are accurate and traceable.
• Maintaining appropriate stock levels to support fleet maintenance and operational needs.
• Carrying out regular stock counts and cycle checks, investigating discrepancies and taking corrective action.
• Identifying slow-moving, obsolete and excess stock and optimizing inventory levels.
• Supervising and supporting stores personnel and workloads.
• Coaching and developing team members with a safety-focused culture.
• Building relationships with suppliers to secure value, service and availability.
• Monitoring supplier performance and sourcing alternatives for hard-to-obtain parts.
• Working with Workshop, Fleet, Procurement and Operations to ensure parts availability.
• Coordinating urgent parts requirements to minimise downtime.
• Ensuring consumables and safety equipment are available to support fleet compliance.
• Maintaining accurate information across stock control and fleet systems.
• Producing reports on stock utilisation, spend, accuracy and supplier performance.
• Managing stock budgets and identifying cost-reduction opportunities.
• Ensuring stores activities comply with policies, health and safety, and environmental standards.
• Maintaining a safe, organized and efficient working environment.

Skills

Stock control

Inventory management

Team leadership

Forklift operation

UK driving licence

Tools

Inventory systems

Fleet management systems

MS Office

Job description

We do what we say.... That's why we need people like you to help us deliver on our promises, people who enjoy getting things done!

We have an opportunity for an experienced Stores Supervisor to join our Plant Team, leading the day-to-day operation of our Parts and Stores function and supporting the availability and performance of a diverse fleet of vehicles, plant, tools and specialist equipment.

Reporting to the Head of Fleet Procurement, you'll oversee stock control, supplier management, warehouse operations and team supervision, ensuring parts and consumables are available when required while maintaining strong inventory controls and managing costs effectively.

Here are some of the activities you will be involved in...

• Overseeing the daily operation of the central parts and stores facility.
• Managing goods-in and goods-out processes, ensuring stock movements are accurate and traceable.
• Maintaining appropriate stock levels to support fleet maintenance, repairs and operational requirements.
• Carrying out regular stock counts and cycle checks, investigating discrepancies and taking corrective action.
• Identifying slow-moving, obsolete and excess stock and implementing plans to optimise inventory levels.
• Supervising and supporting stores personnel, allocating workloads and ensuring service levels are maintained.
• Coaching and developing team members while promoting a positive, safety-focused and customer-oriented culture.
• Building effective relationships with suppliers to secure the right combination of value, service and availability.
• Supporting procurement activity through supplier benchmarking, order management d cost control.
• Monitoring supplier performance, delivery times and quality, while sourcing alternative solutions for difficult-to-obtain parts where required.
• Working closely with Workshop, Fleet, Procurement and Operations teams to ensure parts availability supports asset uptime.
• Coordinating urgent parts requirements to minimise vehicle and plant downtime.
• Ensuring mandatory consumables, safety equipment and replacement components are available to support fleet compliance.
• Maintaining accurate information across stock control and fleet management systems.
• Producing reports covering stock utilisation, spend, stock accuracy and supplier performance.
• Managing stock budgets and identifying opportunities to reduce costs and improve processes.
• Ensuring stores activities comply with company policies, health and safety requirements and environmental standards.
• Maintaining a safe, organised and efficient working environment, with high standards of storage, handling and housekeeping.

We would love to hear from you if...

You have previous experience in a Stores Supervisor, Parts Supervisor, Parts Manager or similar role, ideally gained within plant hire, fleet management, construction, commercial vehicles or another engineering-related environment.

A strong understanding of stock control, inventory management and supplier coordination is important, together with good commercial awareness and an understanding of how effective inventory management can support cost control and operational efficiency. Along with solid leadership and organisational skills which are essential, with experience supervising a team and the ability to delegate effectively, manage competing priorities and maintain clear standards.

Additionally, good IT skills are required, including experience using inventory, stock control or fleet management systems and Microsoft Office. Experience of procurement processes, supplier performance management and workshop or planned maintenance activities would be advantageous.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills will be important, as you'll work closely with teams across Plant, Fleet, Procurement, Workshops and Operations to ensure the right parts and equipment are available when needed.

Experience operating a forklift or telehandler is required as is a full UK driving licence.

Our Company

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations.

Our purpose at Clancy is simple - we make life better for everyone's growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more.

We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

Benefits

• a competitive salary
• pension
• healthcare
• holiday allowance starting at 24-26 days per annum
• Clancy Xtras
• our employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well-known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas
• cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Clancy is an equal opportunity employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for you to attend an interview, please do let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Committed.