Supply Chain and Inventory Analyst

Supply Chain and Inventory Analyst

Burnley, Lancashire BB11

£salary depending on experience

Permanent Office based role

Commutable from Preston, Bolton, Blackburn

Hours working Monday to Friday 40hrs per week (8hrs per day) 8am or 8.30am Start

Early finish every other Friday at 3pm

Hawk 3 Talent Solutions are recruiting for an experienced Supply Chain and Inventory Analyst for a company based in Burnley, Lancashire.

The Role

Reporting to the Logistics Manager you will be working within Supply Chain, responsible for managing all supply & inventory control related activities & supporting the flow of the organisation’s materials & products, including location, storage, warehousing.

Duties

• Working within the Supply Chain / Warehouse functions supporting the development of robust systems for inventory control and efficient processing (sales orders, work orders, cycle counts, etc)
• Build strong relationships with the wider supply chain & project teams, in order to maximise efficiency of stock movements within the warehouse area and to feed global project sites.

• Maintenance of all SKU related master data
• Working closely with the Engineering Dept, creating, maintaining, updating bills of materials.
• Support the NPI process (New Product Introduction)
• Share & support best practice for Warehouse transformation
• Support the Directional Flow of the organization's materials and products
• Report Opportunity / Risk, E&O, Working Capital Turns, Trends etc to key stakeholders
• Demand planning – responsible for executing the demand planning process.
• Analysing trends, reviewing forecast exceptions and being accountable for creating a robust demand plan to maximise service and minimise cost.
• Understand and become an expert on stocking policy and product life cycle management.
• Ensuring inventory exceptions are reviewed routinely and appropriate action taken to maximize stock outs and obsolete stock.
• Accountable for executing the monthly stock and pallet forecast.
• Analysing inventory changes and providing recommendations to achieve stock targets, reduce overstocks and improve inventory days.
• Lead projects for continuous improvements and support the Supply Chain Manager on other projects providing key data for input to formal improvement projects.

Skills/Knowledge/Experience

• Demonstrate experience of working withing a similar stock/material control and inventory management role.
• Excellent problem solving/decision making skills; ability to make timely, effective, fact-based decisions.
• Good communicator
• Capable of working unsupervised
• Extensive knowledge of SAP
• Supply Chain Accreditation (APICS) – not essential
• Numeracy skills and experience with Microsoft outlook, excel & word
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to develop collaborative relationships across multiple functions within an organization

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank – increasing with service
• Option to buy up additional leave, deduction from monthly pay
• Life assurance x 4 salary
• Pension is 3% EE with 6% ER or 4% EE and 7% ER
• Early finish, 3pm every other Friday (working missing hours in the 2 weeks leading to the early finish)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Increased parental leave benefits
• Sick pay following 6 months service

If you would like to apply for the role of Supply Chain and Inventory Analyst then please email your CV to (url removed) or call Deb on (phone number removed)

Closing date is 30.11.2024 Please note this could change subject to suitable applications.

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