Vacancies Inventory Controller

Overview of the role

As an Inventory Controller, you will be joining a small team responsible for executing daily and weekly core tasks to ensure that the stock accuracy is maintained. You will be completing stock counts/checks within our main automated warehouse, controlled drugs area and cold storage room.

Other core tasks will be pallet validation, inventory level and expiry investigations, expiry validation and stock rotation as well as maintaining WMS for all site stocks & highlighting stock at risk to the business to minimise write-off.

You will be working 4 week rotating shift pattern

Week 1 Monday-Friday 11:30-20:00

Week 2 - 4 Monday- Friday 06:00-14:30

Please note that due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check before employment can commence. This includes both spent and unspent convictions, as well as information held by local police deemed as relevant to the role. Employment is conditional on satisfactory DBS clearance.

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children.

Main Responsibility

• Complete all set daily critical tasks and allocated ad-hoc queries accurately and timely ensuring all subsequent KPIs are filled in.
• Full stock counts, Daily/Weekly/Monthly
• Ensure stock accuracy of inventory levels
• Facilitate the correct order of stock FEFO (First Expiry First Out)
• Ensure all “in-stocks” remain available for sale
• Investigation of customer queries
• Police site stocks, positively challenging / reporting anything out of location
• Action product recall tasks, timely and accurately to control risk to patient safety.
• Support team members as required to ensure the success of the overall department performance.
• Ensure all MHRA guidelines are adhered to.

Key knowledge and skills required:

• Must have good organisational skills and to be adept at multi-tasking as the role involves multiple workstreams that can be ongoing at any one time.
• Confident and accurate communication with various departments & levels
• Ability to manage own time, the role involves working to deadlines and completing time critical tasks.
• Must demonstrate high attention to detail and take a logical thinking approach to tasks
• Pallet racking validation will require the use of MHE, On site training will be provided.
• Inventory & Microsoft office experience will be preferred
• Flexibility towards work is essential, as overtime/shift changing may be required

Problem solving & Change:

• Applicants must be confident in their own decision making.
• Must be competent in maths and have a strong ability to count (Role requires counting stock in several areas- applicant must have the ability to count and calculate the overall stock holding)   
• Need to be able to work in fast paced environment.
• Ability to carry out an investigation which may include looking into a number of POs/adjustments/reports

The Ideal Candidate

Well are 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.

Package Description

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent training & development opportunities
• Paid Holidays
• Workplace pension scheme
• Staff Discount
• Travel Loans and more

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 second largest 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 their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

‘Together we make a difference’