Materials Controller

6 months ago


Crewe, United Kingdom Bakkavor Full time

**Materials Controller - Crewe DC, Cheshire**
- **£26,000 - £29,000 per annum**:

- **Mon - Fri 08.30 - 17.00**:

- **Permanent**:

- **Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension**:

- **Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group**

A fantastic opportunity for a Materials Controller has become available at our distribution centre in Crewe, Cheshire. The distribution centre is for our manufacturing site which is also based in Crewe - the site makes chilled speciality bread such as sliced baguettes, hand-crafted flatbreads and dough balls for key customers.

**The role**

The Materials Controller is responsible for ensuring materials are available to meet demand, through effective ordering and inventory control processes, liaising with a variety of internal and external parties, including suppliers and hauliers, to ensure highest levels of service are maintained both efficiently and cost effectively.

**Accountabilities**
- Ensure that materials are always available and delivered on time to meet production schedules.
- Build and maintain internal relations in other functions and locations, including Commercial, Process Team, Technical and site stores and De Box areas.
- Maintenance and upkeep of data in ERP & MRP systems used to schedule materials.
- Daily use of department KPI’s to identify appropriate resource stock levels, minimizing waste, special vehicles and redundant stock write off.
- Represent department at internal and external meetings as required. Report back to the team with key actions and updates. Feedback to meeting stakeholders with action updates as appropriate.
- Make challenges where appropriate with internal and external stakeholders to improve ways of working with the aim of reducing costs to the business.
- Look at ways to improve customer service, short and long-term control systems development and further opportunities.
- Proactively develop collaborative working relationships with suppliers and continually review ways of working.

**About you**
- Ideally you will have previous experience of a similar role within a fast-paced FMCG or food manufacturing setting.
- Excellent Communication skills (both written and verbal) with attention to detail, and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- PC literate with a good knowledge of Microsoft office software.
- Problem solving skills offering creative solutions.
- Inquisitive in nature with a thirst to learn and absorb and understand information.
- The ability to work well as part of a team and with people at different levels as well as the ability to work under own initiative when required.
- To be able to work logically and systematically with good time management skills. Competence with numbers, including costings, calculations, and performance data.

**We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.**

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