Warehouse and Replenishment Manager

Location: Totton, Southampton
Contract Type: Full-time/ Permanent
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Hours: 41
Benefits: Competitive

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-growing and progressive retailer and to make your mark in the developing logistics department as well as bring new ideas to the business’ supply chain efficiency. Healthy Pet Store provides frozen meals for dogs, cats and other meat-eating pets, as well as other categories of pet food, and has a large range of pet-friendly training gear, cool toys, natural snacks, and more.

Reporting to the Operations Manager and working with the Purchasing and Retail teams, you will lead, manage and motivate a small warehouse team in a role which is critical and which directly contributes to the success of the business. Our customers expect a high level of product availability, and the work in the cold stores and warehouses plays a pivotal role in helping the business to grow. If you’d like to get your teeth into a logistics role at the grassroots level and apply your logical and methodical approach to the drive for efficiency, Healthy Pet Store would love to hear from you.

Specific Job Role and Responsibilities:

• Warehousing
• Issue pick lists to warehouse teams and suppliers for replenishment and invoicing purposes
• Organise a warehouse and cold stores of mixed products
• Maintain planograms
• Maintain a tidy and organised mailbox and folders
• Manage stock takes
• Break down, check off and store frozen and ambient deliveries and oversee them to a high standard
• Deal accurately with variations
• Ensure product rotation
• Ensure loss and damages are kept to a minimum and ensure accurate reporting
• Ensure the working environment is maintained within Health and Safety standards
• Welcome Trading Standards to demonstrate our high standards and implement any actions as suggested
• Maintain a clean and organised warehouse
• Keep track of cold store servicing and deal efficiently with servicing issues
• Maintain fire tests and drill records
• Production
• Manage in-house label and barcode production
• Keep track of weighing scale calibration and servicing
• Organise the breakdown of bulk stocks into smaller quantities
• Ensure label wastage is kept to a minimum
• Replenishment support
• Ensure sufficient stock is ready for store replenishment teams to take

Skills, knowledge, and experience required:

• Excellent verbal and written skills
• IT literate (Excel and Outlook)
• Experience in the use of Zebra handheld devices or similar
• Demonstrable people management and team leader skills
• Strong work ethic and a positive approach in the face of growth challenges
• Tidy, organised, self-motivated and accurate
• Be comfortable and able to work quickly and efficiently in a cold store environment
• Have a genuine interest in logistics and supply chain in a fast-paced retail environment. There are opportunities for personal development and attaining recognised qualifications if desired
• A full clean driving license. You may be required to drive a 3.5t lorry and will be required to provide cover for Home Delivery drivers

Benefits
What we can offer:

• Day off for pet adoption/arrival and bereavement
• 25% in-store discount for you and your household pets from day one
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Free eye test vouchers
• Cutting-edge concept, category, and product training well as all statutory workplace training, and management and leadership skills training
• Opportunity to access paid-for study for industry-recognised nutrition courses and retail or warehouse qualifications
• Love2Shop and Kudos recognition and rewards
• Employee assistance programme giving colleagues access to shopping savings, private GP and counsellor access, and wellness support for you and your family
• Birthday and work anniversary gifts
• Bounty payment for introducing new colleagues of £250
• Opportunity for progression if desired

You may have experience in the following: Inventory Control Supervisor, Warehouse Operations Manager, Stock Replenishment Coordinator, Supply Chain Manager, Retail Logistics Supervisor, Distribution Center Manager, Inventory Planning Specialist, Store Operations Manager, Replenishment Analyst, Stock Control

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