Inventory Manager at Wolseley Group

Also, did we mention? In addition to the competitive salary, there are also benefits on tap – including...

Annual leave (increasing with length of service), a generous pension scheme (matched up to 9%), potential to earn bonuses, enhanced maternity / adoption leave and access to a great range of online and high street discounts.   

We also promote positive health and wellbeing by offering free access to healthcare, our popular YuLife app, our Cycle to Work scheme and more.

 As an Inventory Manager based in Warwick you’ll be responsible for: 

• To manage the trade-off between inventory investment and product availability for a category or categories. 
• To be accountable for the availability levels of product within those categories within branches and each DC and to plan, manage and deliver stock budgets at both DC and branch levels for those categories to hit all relevant KPI’s.
• Responding to in flight variances, identifying risks and opportunities to stock and availability and proposing solutions. Using root cause analysis to manage by exception
• Pro-actively communicate internally, to multiple stakeholders, known and potential future issues related to stock or availability

This is a full time, permanent role, working 40 hours per week Monday-Friday 08:00-17:00.

 And here’s what we’d like you to have: 

• Highly analytical and numerate
• Experience of managing complex trade-off situations
• Able to represent the Supply Chain function in meetings with internal and external stakeholders
• Proven supply chain/inventory management/merchandising skills
• Good influencing and communication skills to drive results across internal and external teams
• Strong organisational, decision making and presentation skills