Supply Chain Administrator Walsall, England
Job description
About the opportunity
About the Opportunity …..
We are recruiting for a Supply Chain Administrator to join our Trading team based at our Customer Support Centre in Walsall. As the Supply Chain Administrator, you will report into the FMCG Supply Chain Manager and Analysts and you will support the team by helping to achieve business objectives and targets set for stock, availability and sales
As the Supply Chain Administrator, you will work closely with the Commercial team, Suppliers, as well as our Visual Merchandising, Central Supply Chain and Distribution teams to order and manage stock efficiently to maximise potential sales
This role will provide flexible working between our Customer Support Centre in Walsall and remote working.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
What you'll need...
- Previous experience within Supply Chain
- Retail experience would be ideal
- Good MS Excel skills
- Exceptional planning and organisational skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Excellent relatiionship building skills with the ability to influence stakeholders
What we can offer...
What we can offer...
- Competitive salary
- Potential to earn bonus
- Free on-site car park
- Onsite coffee lounge
- Long service awards
- Additional holiday purchase - (once a year window to apply)
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
About us...
Since opening our first store in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990, Poundland, has built a network of over 850 stores in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, offering top brands and great quality own brand products that provide customers with amazing value every day!
Poundland offers thousands of quality products in store with over 1,000 well-known brands in 17 shopping categories including food and drink, health and beauty, household, gardening, DIY, pet, stationery, books, DVDs and toys. We are now on a journey from a single price to a simple price point retailer.
Now part of Pepco Group with over 2,500 stores across Europe, you will see Poundland also trades internationally in the Republic of Ireland through its Dealz brand. Dealz has a growing store base in both Poland and Spain.
Within the UK Poundland has also rolled out its fashion brand PEP&CO to approximately 300 of our larger stores. PEP&CO, launched in 2015 as a stand-alone brand, offers customers a full range of women’s, men’s and kids’ fashion and is now bringing new style to Poundland with simple low pricing on family fashion that’s hard to find on local high streets.
PEP&CO was also nominated in the 2019 Retail Week Awards as Private Label of The Year.
If this sounds like you and you can make a real difference, apply today!
What you'll be doing...
- Helping to identify and review long-stocks/non range for review with buying to ensure minimal stock levels
- Helping to identify and resolve issues to maximise order fulfilment
- Supporting the delivery of range activity in line with seasonal and promotional launches
- Helping to identify opportunities to drive additional sales
- Best before end date management
- Supporting the forecast inbound pallet volumes
- Attending supplier meetings to discuss performance and reporting
