Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has previous administration experience for a period of Maternity Cover.
Reporting to the Despatch Shift Manager, the Inventory Controller is responsible for ensuring that the department is run in accordance with all Despatch, Safety, and Compliance standards.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
* Ensuring that all the correct paperwork is completed, accurate, complies with GDPR rules, is filed and audit-ready, in line with full traceability commitments and processes.
* Proactively identifying the delayed despatching of lorries and communicating ahead of time, with urgency, any risks to the relevant senior manager and customers.
* Checking and verifying that quality checks required by the Commercial Team/Senior Management are being completed at the point of loading (e.g., photographs of pallets where requested).
* Being the primary escalation point for the business in dealing with any stock integrity issues raised by customers.
* Liaising with the commercial and finance teams on shortages and stock discrepancies.
* Liaising with Accounts Receivable supervisor regarding variances between despatched stock quantities and customer received quantities.
* Sending accurate reporting of any departed stock, including shortages and/or late departures to the Shift Manager and other stakeholders (customers) and highlighting any risk of future delays against the scheduled departure times.
* Liaising with and supporting the finance team to achieve accurate results, e.g., responsible for ordering and maintaining the correct levels of trays and other equipment to meet business as usual and peak stock times.
* Supporting a ‘Safety First’ approach; maintaining a zero-accident culture and ensuring accident prevention and a safe working environment across the area.
* Ensuring control of customer pallets and details.
This list is not exhaustive.
Behaviours
* Ability to follow direction.
* Able to work to time scales and provide feedback and escalation should a job be taking longer than anticipated.
Qualifications
Essential Skills:
* Ability to speak and understand written and verbal English.
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Self-motivated.
* Competent in using computers and Microsoft packages.
No company sponsorship is available to overseas applicants for this position.
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