Head of Stock, Quality and Material Flow

at  Unipart Logistics

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Head of Stock, Quality and Material Flow
Mercia Park, Appleby Magna
£80,000 per annum, plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

• Lead site stock teams to ensure stock risks on site are effectively mitigated
• Ensure risks are managed and mitigated through projects and process improvements
• Identify and deliver initiatives that reduce costs and/or improve the customer experience through greater stock control and accuracy.
• Ensure clear and auditable stock processes are in place at all sites, financial and commercial
• Drive the stock performance within tolerance and ensure costs are controlled and mitigated
• Ensure all potential risks are identified, addressed and communicated appropriately to operational standards
• Be accountable for performance of Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators
• Provide effective comms, updates and escalations as required up to director level.
• Be responsible for effective two-way communication processes with team, customer and clients
• Ensure reporting of performance is clear, adds value, delivers insight and meets both internal and external customer requirements.
• Identify trends, risks and concerns from data output to drive the appropriate focus and support – driving appropriate recommendations and decisions therein
• Ensure stock file management and integrity is maintained and operates in a robust manner that delivers the effective and efficient management of the stock file process across the site
• Provide capacity to support UL (and others) should the request arise, through a consultancy methodology and best practice framework integrated partnershi

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!

• Analytical, Good MS Excel skills (incl. PivotTables & VLookups)
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Supplier and Inventory Management
• An understanding of WMS
• Proven experience of adapting to programmes of change
• Adapts to unexpected events and continues to deliver agreed plans and objectives.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Proven track record of effectively managing a team, with excellent leadership skills
• Demonstrable knowledge of delivering against KPI’s
• Stock Management and stock integrity
• Presentation Skills
• Work well in a team and good leadership skills
• Ability to work to targets and timescales
• Good written and verbal communication skills at all levels.
• Ability to cope with the demands of a fast moving and ever changing set of priorites,
• Working in a confidential environment
• Assertive and possesses an ability to influenc