Inventory Manager

Inventory Manager

Ossett, Wakefield

Fixed Term Contract - August 2021

£42,500 per annum 

Job Profile:

Supporting the optimised manufacturing plans, working closely with planning, manufacturing and warehouse teams , helping set stock levels ensuring inventory levels are accurate and fast moving inline with Customer demand. Working closely with Purchasing and Commercial teams.

Role Functions:

• Manage the stock inventory co-ordinator and the team of raw material planners.
• Identify and analyse slow-moving or redundant stocks and investigate opportunities for rework
• Ensure that unique raw materials are made visible to the sales team and that new unique materials are covered by commercial agreements
• Identify and analyse Stock Adjustment transactions and investigate root cause of adjustment. Liaising with departmental Manager to ensure standard procedure in place to eliminate the adjustment transaction
• Review and challenge warehouse capacities with the warehouse and material teams, to ensure both material segregation and storage efficiencies are optimized.

The Person

• ­Demonstrates strong analytical skills in statistics, planning and inventory methods with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts.
• ­Sound and comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft IT packages and able to confidently manipulate and extrapolate data analysis sheets.
• ­Demonstrate a knowledge of Inventory management, S&OP and an overall supply chain understanding.
• ­Experience managing internal communications, working cross functionally to deliver results.
• ­Strong interpersonal skills are also essential to effectively interact with all teams, areas and levels of the business affecting the forecast process.
• ­Be looking to continuously improve and can demonstrate ability to remain calm under pressure.

Experience: