Inventory Supervisor

Inventory Supervisor 

About the Organisation: 

National Services Scotland (NSS) is a national NHS Board operating right at the heart of NHSScotland providing invaluable support and advice at a strategic and operational level.  NSS supports customers to deliver their services more efficiently and effectively and we offer shared services on a national scale using best-in-class systems and standards. Our priority is always the same to improve the health and well-being of the people of Scotland. We do this by working in partnership with colleagues across Health and Social Care to deliver fit for purpose solutions and systems, delivering high quality services that help our stakeholders to free up resources so they can be re-invested into essential services.  

The Post: 

This is a challenging opportunity to help harness the buying power of more than £1.5 billion spent each year on across the NHS in Scotland. National Procurement, the Procurement Centre of Expertise for Health, works in collaboration with Health Boards to ensure the highest level of patient care through the provision of a wide range of goods and services via a series of best value National Contracts and Distribution Services.

The National Distribution and Eurocentral facilities operate over 3 shift patterns, to include Day/Back Shift rotation, and a constant Nightshift, the successful applicant will work a constant 08:00-16:00 to be available for both the inventory teams working rotational Dayshift (06:00-14:00) and Backshift (14:00-22:00) and to be available for daily meetings with Control Tower management.

Eurocentral facility operates within a 122,000 square foot warehouse, in all aspects of Goods In, Pick and Dispatch the successful candidate will have experience of working within a similar FMCG warehouse or logistics role, with demonstrable team management, Inbound and stock allocation planning, ideally gained within an FMCG warehouse.

The Candidate:

Your role will be to control the in-house inventory within the warehouse ensuring depot stock and availability targets are met, supervise ABC cycle counts, monitor and report on the corrections/fixes of day-to-day operational problems of inventory control. Your role will oversee a team of operators and Inventory controller ensuring stock availability targets are met, and outbound delivery timescales are realised. The Inventory Supervisor will also monitor picking accuracy of warehouse operators, ensure training targets are met ensuring compliance with NHSS Logistics health, safety and security procedures and adhere to risk assessments and the development of safe systems of work.

An ability to develop and learn new skills, follow instructions and procedures while working both as part of a team and on own initiative within a fast-moving environment are essential.

Location and Working Pattern:

This post will be based at National Distribution Centre, Eurocentral, Coddington Crescent, Holytown, ML1 4YF. 

The work pattern for this post is Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week.

The successful candidate will work dayshift 08:00-16:00 hours. 

It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NSS.

Benefits: 

Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits. HR Benefits Brochure.

Further information:

For an informal discussion on the post, please contact rab.mitchell@nhs.scot or damien.wisniewski@nhs.scot   

Closing date for completed applications is 7 October 2024. 

Further information on NSS is available from: https://www.nss.nhs.scot/ 

Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).

NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies