Warehouse Manager jobs in United Kingdom
Inventory Manager
Job summary
A leading specialist trade merchant in the UK is seeking an experienced Inventory Manager in Warwick to oversee inventory investment and product availability. You will manage stock budgets and ensure efficient supply chain operations while working collaboratively with stakeholders. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills and proven experience in inventory management. This role offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits, working 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Experience of managing complex trade-off situations.
- Able to represent the Supply Chain function in meetings.
- Proven skills in supply chain and inventory management.
Responsibilities
- Manage trade-off between inventory investment and product availability.
- Ensure availability levels of products across branches and DC.
- Respond to variances and propose solutions to stock issues.
- Communicate issues related to stock or availability.
Skills
Competitive salary + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
We are Wolseley Group, a leading specialist trade merchant across the UK and Ireland. We pride ourselves on putting our people and customers at the heart of everything we do—and best of all, we provide opportunities to develop skills and build careers through our award-winning Wolseley Talent Guild.
Also, did we mention? In addition to the competitive salary, there are also benefits on tap – including...
Annual leave (increasing with length of service), a generous pension scheme (matched up to 9%), potential to earn bonuses, enhanced maternity / adoption leave and access to a great range of online and high street discounts.
We also promote positive health and wellbeing by offering free access to healthcare, our popular YuLife app, our Cycle to Work scheme and more.
As an Inventory Manager based in Warwick you’ll be responsible for:
- To manage the trade-off between inventory investment and product availability for a category or categories.
- To be accountable for the availability levels of product within those categories within branches and each DC and to plan, manage and deliver stock budgets at both DC and branch levels for those categories to hit all relevant KPI’s.
- Responding to in flight variances, identifying risks and opportunities to stock and availability and proposing solutions. Using root cause analysis to manage by exception
- Pro-actively communicate internally, to multiple stakeholders, known and potential future issues related to stock or availability
This is a full time, permanent role, working 40 hours per week Monday-Friday 08:00-17:00.
- Highly analytical and numerate
- Experience of managing complex trade-off situations
- Able to represent the Supply Chain function in meetings with internal and external stakeholders
- Proven supply chain/inventory management/merchandising skills
- Good influencing and communication skills to drive results across internal and external teams
- Strong organisational, decision making and presentation skills
We look forward to receiving your application!
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.
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