Supply Chain and Inventory Manager

Pure Staff Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading staffing agency in the UK is seeking a candidate for an all-encompassing role that covers supply chain, purchasing, inventory control, and packaging. The ideal candidate will have a background in food production or manufacturing, overseeing various operations, ensuring compliance with standards, and optimizing processes to minimize risk and waste. Key responsibilities include managing stocks, training teams, and strategic planning.

Responsibilities

• Manage and control the goods in/goods out area and dry goods stores.
• Ensure production processes have all stocks required for daily/weekly orders.
• Assist the Technical Team to meet BRCGS Standard requirements.
• Manage the intake and outtake of chilled and frozen stocks.
• Ensure clear stock control documentation is available.
• Audit dry goods and ingredients stock control.
• Maintain traceability and record keeping of ingredients and finished products.
• Devise training plans and deliver training to your team.
• Manage inventory, packing, and distribution.
• Predict demand for products and adopt new technology.
• Implement good stock rotation and eliminate waste.
• Create a production plan based on customer orders.
• Create daily and weekly defrost plans for customer requirements.
• Ensure team skill levels are appropriate.
• Complete projects to agreed standards and on time.
• Solve complex problems and collaborate with teams.
• Conduct strategic planning and systems analysis.

Job description

This is an all encompassing role that covers, supply chain, purchasing, inventory control, and packaging and would suit those with a background in food production or food manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• To manage and effectively control the goods in/goods out area/ dry goods stores.
• To ensure production processes have all stocks required for daily/weekly orders.
• To assist the Technical Team to ensure all requirements of the BRCGS Standard are met.
• To intake and outtakes of chilled and frozen stocks are managed and challenged.
• To ensure clear stock control documentation to allow the site to have clear visibility to buy and forecast.
• To ensure dry goods and ingredients stocks control is managed and audited.
• To ensure traceability and record keeping of ingredients and finished products are maintained in an accurate and correct manner and audit of all stocks completed daily and monthly.
• To assist in measuring the skills gap, devising the training plan for your team to comply with all training needs, to deliver training and record the results when training is completed.
• Manage inventory, packing and distribution.
• Identify and minimise risk by predicting the demand for products and adopting new technology with no interruption to process.
• Ensure good stock rotation is implemented and reduction/elimination of all waste.
• Create a linear productions plan in line with customer orders and review actuals vs planned.
• Ensure clear defrost plans are created for customer requirements daily and weekly.
• To ensure structure and skill levels are appropriate for the business in your teams.
• To complete projects to the agreed standard and on time.
• Complex problem solving and collaboration with teams.
• Strategic planning and thinking, systems analysis and evaluation.