WHEN: ASAP
LOCATION: Mitcham warehouse / out and about at events
REPORTS TO: Senior Group Bars Manager
SALARY: £35,000
JOB CLASSIFICATION: Permanent, Full Time. Monday to Friday, and on occasions working evenings and weekends if necessary.
Company Overview
KERB is a business that powers other businesses. We focus on the incubation and growth of innovative, independent food businesses. We run brilliant street food markets, workshops, consultancy, bars, a food hall in Central London and have developed a growing, successful corporate catering company, KERB Events Limited.
We are a food-obsessed and people-first company who believes that everyone with a bit of spark should have the opportunity to ignite it. Be it food entrepreneurs or team members, our mission is to create opportunity and joy through great food, from the KERB up.
Role Description
As a Stock Controller at KERB Events, you’ll play a crucial role in managing and maintaining our stock to ensure smooth and efficient operations across a wide range of exciting events throughout the UK. You will oversee stock management, track inventory movement, and work closely with the warehouse team to ensure all supplies are well-organised, accurately recorded, and readily accessible.
This role involves significant manual handling, and this will be supported by the appropriate training. If you’re organised, proactive, and ready to roll up your sleeves to support a dynamic, fast-paced team, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!
Responsibilities
* Manage distribution of stock at multiple sites across London
* To liaise with relevant Event Operations Managers and support in ensuring that stock is managed onsite and stock counts are completed
* Support in maintaining compliance with H&S regulations of the warehouse
* Control inventory levels by conducting physical stock counts within the warehouse and on occasion, at event sites and reconciling with the stock system
* Cellar management – Support Operations Managers with implementing processes/efficiencies to ensure stock costs are being controlled
* Assist the Warehouse & Logistics Manager and Senior Group Bars Manager with paperwork to ensure it is completed on a timely basis for stock and goods in/out
* Comfortable with handling goods - loading or unloading vehicles and packing or unpacking pallets
* Ensure stock movements to fixed sites are done in the most time and cost-efficient way across KERB Group
* Efficiently planning to manage workloads and prioritise requests
* Checking in deliveries against order sheets and documenting on KERB systems
* Working within Budget requirements and ensuring all income and expenditure is accounted for within KERB financial systems.
* Work with the Bar Team to ensure stock counts are accurate and stock is rotated
Requirements and skills
Essential
* Clean driving licence / confident and experience in driving large vehicles
* Health and safety knowledge, ideally gained within a warehouse or events environment
* Experience within the events or similar industry.
* Proactive / self-starter with tons of initiative
* Excellent people skills
* Ability to adapt communication style according to the audience
* Positive and flexible attitude, with the ability to think laterally and willing to problem solve (team player essential)
* Ability to communicate and conduct oneself in a clear and diplomatic manor
* Flexibility in working to the business needs with some weekends and late nights
Desired but not essential
* Experience of counting stock and management
* 1 - 2 years experience of working in a warehouse environment
* 1 Years’ experience in working in the events industry
* Forklift Licence (Various)
What you’ll get by joining KERB
* Generous discount off all KERB food & drink
* 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays) + birthday day off
* Private Medical Insurance (Vitality)
* Medicash
* Classpass
* Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
* Cycle To Work scheme
* Annual season ticket loan
* Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption leave after 2 years
* A Disability Confident committed employer
* A Best Companies accredited employer
Diversity & Inclusion
As part of our values, we are dedicated to fostering a culture of inclusivity at KERB. We actively celebrate our teams’ different abilities, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Everyone, from any background, is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us. Applicants are encouraged to share with our People Team any accommodations or reasonable adjustments required during the recruitment process.