Overview of the role
Responsible for ensuring the accurate management of stock in both HSC (warehouse) and in Branch, including product forecasting and ordering, depot replenishment and on-shelf availability.
Main Responsibility
- Responsible for managing category stock levels and daily orders to ensure that service levels are achieved and that the stores can be replenished.
- Work closely with the buying and space planning team to understand category strategies, providing live promotional tracking and analysis, ensuring full product availability and avoiding over stocks
- Establish quality relationships with major suppliers, driving continuous improvement in service levels and resolving non-conformances. Provide collaborative forecasts and product phasing when required to drive better on-shelf availability for our customers.
- Analyse, communicate and escalate product availability issues accordingly to resolve quickly and to minimise sales loss
- Interact effectively with the warehousing teams to prioritise loads at Goods In, resolve supplier discrepancies and assist with general stock queries
- Challenge and plan all range reviews, deliver with 100% availability and provide a clear stock exit of all de-ranged lines
- Provide weekly reporting and analysis on KPIs and respond to data requests from other teams in an accurate and timely manner
- Make recommendations on supply route to drive business efficiencies and ensuring KPIs are met
- To assist the Supply Chain Manager and other team members as and when required
Problem Solving & Change:
- Autonomous management of additional top-up orders, chasing of orders and subsequent prioritisation
- Making recommendations to buyers before listing new lines or making pack size changes
- Challenging product forecast following analysis of sales
- Influencing key stakeholders to drive availability improvements
- Make recommendations to improve current processes within Supply Chain
Key knowledge and skills required:
- Highly analytical with the ability to interpret data and to take action
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Ability to multi-task and to prioritise in an ever-changing environment
- Team player
- Excellent IT skills, Excel in particular
The Ideal Candidate
Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
Package Description
- Competitive salaries
- Excellent training & development opportunities
- Paid Holidays
- Workplace pension scheme
- Staff Discount
- Travel Loans and more…
About the Company
For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.
Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.
The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.
We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.
We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.
‘Together we make a difference’
