Stock Controller

**Why come to Leivers part of Danish Crown? - Here’s a few reasons for you to think about.**

An **amazing** 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays - that’s 36 days holiday a year

**Enhanced** maternity, paternity, adoption and share parental leave

**Enhanced** company sick pay

**Matched **company pension scheme

**Heavily discounted** meat for all staff through the staff shop and seasonal **free** meat boxes for the family

**Well-being programmes**, with free optional health care cash plans to cover your everyday healthcare costs and which offer a wide range of digital and virtual wellbeing tools to support both your health and the people you care about.

**Free** Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues and their families

**Free** parking at most of our premises

**Free **tea and coffee on all sites

Development opportunities for those that would like to **progress** in a global business

**Who is Leivers part of Danish Crown?**

We are a food company owned by Danish farmers, supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. From butchers to business developers, we are more than 26,000 colleagues, all committed to lowering our carbon footprint and becoming climate neutral by 2050, for better food and a brighter future.

**Introduction & Job Purpose**

To actively source products to satisfy customer requirements and negotiate prices to develop volume growth and deliver key performance targets, safely, effectively and efficiently to meet the required customer and technical standards in a way which is consistent with DC UK values and behaviours.

**Structure**

The employee in this position reports to the Head of Commercial at Leivers Brothers.

**Employee requirements**

Each employee should always use his own common sense in connection with the role and take responsibility for what suits Danish Crown’s economy best.

The following values must be observed by the employee**:

- Being proactive and taking responsibility**

Take responsibility for the task, are committed and well prepared, contribute and help with tasks, follow agreed standards and principles, react if things go wrong, are systematical and document your tasks, are thinking ahead and planning.
**- Customer focus and focus on the business**

Listen and understand, put yourself in their situation, innovative, treat customer professionally, understand individual customer processes and specifications.

Communicate effectively and with constant care, ensuring coordination within the department.
**- Being professional and cooperate with everyone**

Well prepared and committed, listens and takes responsibility for problem solutions; effectively represents the department across functions; cooperates with all in a professional manner; adaptable and strives to continuously develop.
**- Use your common sense**
Keep it simple, focus on functionality, consider the business case (cost-benefit), be cost conscious.

**Job responsibilities and assignments**

**Job Purpose**: To actively source products to satisfy customer requirements and negotiate prices to develop volume growth and deliver key performance targets, safely, effectively and efficiently to meet the required customer and technical standards.

**Health and Safety**
- Ensure all staff wear correct PPE including, clothing, gloves and shoes.
- Ensure all team comply with the food and hygiene requirements at all times.
- Ensure operation within the Company health and safety standards at all times and that workstations are kept clean and tidy at all times.
- Report any hazards or equipment problems immediately to your Manager and support resolution as appropriate.

**Business Performance**
- Delivery of the key performance targets for the purchasing department.
- Ensure Good standards of General Working Practice and that all department Schedules are maintained at all times.
- Continuously review and identify ways to improve efficiency and reduce labour costs and waste whilst maintaining quality and technical standards.
- Contribute to Departmental and Site improvement projects as required.

**Operational Responsibilities**
- Actively source products that satisfy customer requirements and negotiate prices to deliver volume growth.
- Maintain supplier relationships to deliver ongoing value and facilitate promotional opportunities through participation in marketing activities.
- Focus on buying power and negotiation skills to develop gross margin percentage.
- Forge strong relationships with sales team through proactive communication to enhance understanding of customer base.
- Create and maintain both weekly and seasonal price lists.
- Participate in weekly sales meeting to deliver key market information to sales team and management.
- Inventory management - control stock levels to suite customer demand, actively monitor stock dates and pursue clearance lines to minimise stock losses.
- Ensure customer returns that require supplier credits have been checked and s