Stock and Warehouse Controller

British Sugar is a home-grown success story and one of the most efficient and competitive beet processers in the world. Around 3,500 farmers based in East Anglia and the East Midlands supply our four advanced manufacturing sites with eight million tonnes of sugar beet every year. We, in turn, make this in to over 1 million tonnes of sugar, serving customers across the UK, Ireland and increasingly growing commercially in the EU and world sugar markets. Salary Range £41,505 to £49,155 per annum Job Purpose Stock Controller with a sound understanding of warehousing and systems to ensure accurate reflection of finished goods, packaging, materials, and ingredients. The role takes ownership of ensuring stock checks and stock controls are robust to support overall effective stock management on site. Effective stock controls enable the effective decision making of the movement of goods to external warehouses to meet customer requirements. Core Accountabilities Through the manipulation of appropriate reporting systems and data from the warehouse management system to provide accurate statistics and insights into warehouse performance at any given point, recommending and driving through appropriate changes. Co-ordinating the movement of product to external warehouses, ensuring the correct allocation to meet customer orders. Maintaining full traceability of all incoming and outgoing product and system transactions, proactively identifying issues to ensure accurate invoicing and receipt of payments. To ensure the warehouse management systems accurately reflect deliveries of packaging and materials, together with inter-site and return movements, working closely with other British Sugar sites. Owning the production and stock accounting by ensuring that systems accurately reflect production and movement of sugar products, identifying and resolving variances through interrogation and analysis, and summarising appropriately to relevant stakeholders. To ensure that the finished products and packaging are aligned to the warehouse management system, managing the execution of internal stock checks and reconciliations both product and materials. Carry out periodic reviews on materials usage, to recommend changes to BOM data where appropriate to ensure accurate recording and accounting of BOM and non BOM components. To manage stock audits in line with external compliance requirements, ensuring that customer, audit and internal traceability tests are conducted within agreed time frames and to support Customer Supply internal and external audits. Identify gaps in processes and measure adherence to relevant processes. Be an advocate for stock control, and share with the wider team through a combination of training and coaching. Ensure documentation and training of stock control processes are reviewed, updated and briefed out to ensure compliance. Skills, Knowledge & Competencies Experience of working with Warehouse Management systems. Strong IT skills - particularly MS Excel. Good communication skills including sharing and explaining analytical data. Ability to organise and prioritise. Driven with a desire to achieve. Works on own initiative and ability to work as part of a team