Supply Chain Analyst

Bestway Healthcare; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Bestway Healthcare is seeking a Stock Controller in the United Kingdom to ensure accurate management of stock in both the warehouse and branch network, including forecasting, ordering, depot replenishment, and on-shelf availability. You will use inventory analysis tools to optimise stock levels and support continuous improvements to service.

The role offers a hybrid setup with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home each week, enabling collaboration with purchasing and warehousing

Qualifications

• Highly analytical with the ability to interpret data and take action.
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team.
• Able to multitask and prioritise in a changing environment.
• Intermediate Excel skills; Power BI experience is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Manage category stock levels and raise daily purchase orders to ensure service levels.
• Establish strong supplier relationships and drive improvements in service levels.
• Collaborate with buying and space planning to track promotions and ensure availability.
• Analyse and elevate stock issues to minimise sales loss.
• Coordinate with warehousing to prioritise goods in and resolve discrepancies.
• Support range reviews and ensure 100% product availability.
• Provide weekly KPIs and respond to data requests from other teams.
• Suggest supply routes to improve efficiency and meet KPIs.
• Work with wholesale to manage stock and drive availability.
• Assist the Senior Supply Chain Analyst as required.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Communication

Multitasking

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Responsible for ensuring the accurate management of stock in both HSC (warehouse) and in Branch, including product forecasting and ordering, depot replenishment and on-shelf availability. Utilising inventory analysis tools to best manage stock levels.

We offer hybrid working with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home each week.

Main Responsibility

• Responsible for managing category stock levels and raising daily purchase orders to ensure that service levels are achieved and that the stores can be replenished.
• Establish quality relationships with major suppliers, driving continuous improvement in service levels and resolving non-conformances. Provide collaborative forecasts to drive better on-shelf availability for our customers.
• Work closely with the buying and space planning team to understand category strategies, providing live promotional tracking and analysis, ensuring full product availability and avoiding over stocks.
• Analyse, communicate and elevate product availability issues accordingly to resolve quickly and to minimise sales loss.
• Interact effectively with the warehousing teams to prioritise intake at Goods In, resolve supplier discrepancies and assist with general stock queries.
• Challenge, plan and support range reviews, deliver with 100% availability and provide a clear stock exit of all de-ranged lines.
• Provide weekly reporting and analysis on KPIs and respond to data requests from other teams in an accurate and timely manner.
• Make recommendations on supply route to drive business efficiencies and ensuring KPIs are met.
• Work closely with the wholesale team to manage stock effectively, driving availability and sales.
• To assist the Senior Supply Chain Analyst and other team members as and when required.

The Ideal Candidate

• Highly analytical with the ability to interpret data and to take action.
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Ability to multi-task and to prioritise in an ever-changing environment
• Intermediate Excel skills, applied use of Power BI is helpful.

Bestway Healthcare is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

About the Company

For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the secondlargest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.

We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in our role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

• Location Merchants Warehouse, Castle St, Manchester, United Kingdom (Incl. Northern Ireland)