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SalaryContract type: Full time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 08:30-15:30
Salary: £32,000 plus 25 days holiday, bonus, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special, always delivering amazing quality and results for our customers
We don’t just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level. You’ll have a key role to play in helping your team go ‘From Gate to Great’, with all the opportunities that go with it.
We’re a fast paced business and as one of our Stock Team Leaders, you will lead your team to manage all aspects of Unipart's stock control by ensuring a range of daily tasks are completed and that robust stock control procedures are maintained. You’ll work closely with your manager to deliver results across your department.
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:
- Implement and maintain robust stock control procedures, ensuring all stock controls are followed by all areas of the operation
- Initiate review processes in all areas of the business, with a view to examining and rectifying potential stock integrity risks to the business, producing recommendations to ensure the security of stock at all times
- Analyse data and subsequent investigation by exception
- Support in implementing and ensuring KPIs are consistently achieved
- Ensure that a standard approach to investigations is maintained using the tools and techniques of the Unipart Way
- Identify, using Root Cause Analysis, any process failure issues and report and remedy using the tools and techniques of the Unipart Way
- Control and co-ordinate half yearly Stock Count Process and all related structures and reporting including - Project plans - Outlining and defining project team - Timelines for preparation, count and operational handover - Equipment requirements - Resource planning - Working with external vendors - Reconciling results - Reporting to the business - Follow up and lessons learnt - Working with Audit and Finance teams
- Understand Profiled PI process and the business importance
- Audit and correct both internal and external to the Stock teams processes to ensure that all end to end is covered by SOPs and/or process flow and that any implications to integrity and financial audit trails are highlighted and corrected
- Control and manage Empty location reporting with feedback to operational areas to affect redress
About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!
- Previous experience of managing and leading a team
- Excellent communication skills including effective listening
- Good IT skills with skills in Microsoft Office and / or Google Suites
- With a solid understanding of stock management tool and techniques you are able to apply them into practice
- Very good understanding of logistical and stock investigation tools and analysis, with an ability to process map and identify weaknesses and improvements where necessary
- Experience of working in a warehousing environment
- Logical thinker with the ability to interrogate data and analyse findings
- Solid understanding of the accounting implications of stock integrity to the business
- Understanding of PI Programming
- Experience of adapting to and leading programmes of change
- Awareness of health, safety, and environmental standards
- Proven experience of delivering excellent customer service
- We’d love to see some demonstrable experience of working with lean / continuous improvement techniques too if you have that
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.
You may have experience in the following: Inventory Team Leader, Stock Control Manager, Warehouse Team Leader, Inventory Supervisor, Logistics Team Leader, Stock Supervisor, Inventory Coordinator, Stock Manager, Warehouse Supervisor, etc.
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