Inventory Controller

Inventory Controller

The Opportunity:
You will take responsibility for overseeing the inventory of stock within this British Manufacturing business.  Your report writing and data skills will be superb, and you'll have a good understanding of the supply chain process and inventory management.  The role is key in providing transparent order status management, identifying potential restrictions and delivering a smooth customer journey from order to delivery.
 
What you'll be doing:

• Oversee all orders received within this busy manufacturing business and align inventory levels, working across multiple departments, communicating with them and producing data reports on stock and delivery.
• Communicate clearly on product fulfilment performance, lead times and stock challenges.
• Track purchase order due dates and provide visibility to colleagues across the entire business.
• Support forward planning by flagging availability issues.
• Work with Warehousing and Logistics on transfers, reallocations, and expedited shipments.
• Manage the full lifecycle of customer orders across multiple channels, ensuring completeness, awareness of availability and delivery of a quality product manufactured in this British company.
• Produce reports on fulfilment performance, backorders, and stock risks.
• Provide insights and recommendations to improve service and optimise inventory use.
• Supporting the maintenance of data quality - accurate order, inventory and delivery data in ERP/CRM systems.

Requires of You:

• Experience in order management, supply chain or customer services.
• Strong understanding of B2B and B2C order flows.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to analyse inventory and order data to make informed decisions and prioritise actions
• ERP/inventory management system knowledge
• A strong and confident communicator with cross-departmental collaboration skills.
• Proactive, solutions-focused mind set.
• Familiarity with production planning, purchasing, or logistics is an advantage.

Offers You:
Hours of work 9.00am – 5.30pm
Life Assurance
Staff Discount 
Cashplan Scheme

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.