Area Inventory Manager

Area Inventory Manager

Competitive Salary - Based in the area surrounding Colchester

Graham the Plumbers Merchants part of Saint-Gobain -Winners of 'TOP EMPLOYER UK AND GLOBAL 2016, 2017 and 2018'

We are looking for a highly motivated Area Inventory Manager. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an ambitious and well established team and play a pivotal role in providing a first class service.

In this role you will manage all aspects of the Area's inventory & purchasing in line with sales and keeping to stock budgets, to ensure maximum levels of stock availability with optimum efficiency and to minimize sales facing staff's involvement in purchasing and inventory management.

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for ???..

So if you???

• Have knowledge of Heating and Plumbing supplies or similar to our industry
• Have strong and demonstrable experience in Inventory Management i.e stock ordering in store, warehouse and branch network
• Good communication, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills
• Are highly IT literate in systems, specifically Excel
• Are resilient and able to constructively challenge and influence
• Have proven and demonstrable ability to understand customer and business requirements
• Are able to work under pressure and manage multiple simultaneous priorities
• Have strong numerical and analytical skills with ability assimilate information
• Have a Full UK Driving Licence (travel and overnight stays are required)

We may just be the right fit for each other??? First and foremost we always want to recruit talented people that align well with our values and way of working; we innovate, we collaborate, we're agile, we act with entrepreneurial spirit, and we're supportive of and close to our customers. Does this sound like you?

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Company car, laptop, mobile phone
• 31 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Genuine career progression opportunities with Saint Gobain's 32+ brands.
• A defined contribution pension scheme.
• Flexible Holiday buy-sell scheme (allowing up to 3 days holiday to be bought or sold).
• As a Saint Gobain employee, you are automatically covered by the Saint-Gobain Life Assurance Scheme.
• Staff discounts on high street and leisure activities and various other benefits.

If you're up for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you!

AGENCY?

Please note that we have our own recruitment marketing and search functions alongside an already agreed set of agency partners and will not accept any third party CV's/Applications from anyone unless invited to do so.

On occasion, we receive significantly more applicants than expected for some vacancies and under such we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of the advertisement. We therefore strongly advise you to apply for the role promptly, to avoid disappointment should the closing date be brought forward.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and we welcome a diversity of applications irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.