Stock Controller

Hours**:40 hours per week - Monday to Friday**
Additional hours may be required to meet company demands

**Salary dependent on experience**

**Why Youngs Foods? **Youngs Foods Limited is one of the leading names in the Food Service wholesale industry within the Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire area and continues to see growth each year. There's plenty of opportunity to progress within the company and job security. Youngs Foods is a family run business and is invested in its people, every employee is valued.

**Job Overview**

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**

Working with the Head of Purchasing in the following areas:

- Work with sales to establish product requirements to meet customer demand.
- Sourcing new suppliers to keep up with product / price demand.
- Placing purchase orders with suppliers.
- Carry out goods inwards procedure ensuring a match / checking to purchase order and booking in of goods promptly.
- Involvement with stock storage methods, solutions and regulations.
- Oversee stock rotation is monitored & organised as new deliveries come in.
- Maintain ERP stock listing to ensure it is kept as accurate as possible.
- Monitor and track stock use, with spreadsheets and report weekly use.
- Raise any queries with suppliers arising at point of delivery and oversee queries to point of credit note received with the Accounts department.
- Monitor slow moving stock lines to highlight to sales.
- Regular physical stock counts and stock takes within the ERP system.
- Highlight areas for improvement in the ERP system within the stock module.
- Possible local deliveries/collections.
- Identify areas for cost reduction regards all stock use.

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
- Well organised and a logical thinker.
- Excellent team worker.
- Versatility to help other departments during busy periods when required.
- Drive and determination to get things done, make things happen and continually looking for better ways of doing things.
- Be able to follow regular procedures for counting/reviewing/ordering.
- Experience of buying especially in the Food Service sector but not essential.
- Experience of goods inwards procedures.
- Good communication skills; verbal, phone & electronic.
- Resilience to meet deadlines, see tasks through and ability to work unsupervised.
- Working knowledge of standard computer packages essential, experience of Sage 200, Sharp-ax or similar stock control/purchase order modules desirable.
- You must be computer literate and have an understanding of Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Forklift truck license up to 4 ton. (desirable)
- Full Driving License (desirable)

**Qualifications**
- A*-C Grade GCSE or equivalent in Mathematics, English and Science.
- Good methods of communication.

**Specific KPI’s and Deliverables**
- All Goods in related problems dealt with and reported in a timely manner.
- All Goods ordered in a timely manner and mínimal stock shortages.
- Reduction in stock costings by sourcing alternate suppliers or products.
- Reduction in stock costings by procuring products in larger volumes / obtaining claim backs.
- Other KPI’s to be discussed during annual targets and performance reviews.

**Development**
- The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £22,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Kingston upon Hull, HU3 4EL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Reference ID: YFL-Stock Controller