Overview of the role
Overview of the role
Responsible for ensuring the accurate management of stock for Lexon across 3 warehouses, including raising purchase orders, analysis of sales and product forecasting to maintain strong availability across the OTC range. Working closely with suppliers and OTC team.
Main Responsibilities
- Responsible managing stock levels across circa 80 suppliers. Raising and tracking purchase orders using the ERP system (Navision).
- Monitor and analyse stock levels daily to ensure sufficient quantities are available to meet demand and stay within the stock budget.
- Liaise with suppliers to clarify order details, resolve discrepancies, and address any issues related to purchase orders.
- Establish quality relationships with suppliers, driving improvement in service levels and resolving any discrepancies. Evaluate supplier’s performance based on key metrics such as quality, delivery reliability, and lead time.
- 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.
- Forecasting to ensure future stock availability.
Problem Solving & Change:
- Autonomous management of additional top-up orders, chasing of orders and subsequent prioritisation
- 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.
- Excellent IT and Excel skills.
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.
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’
