Stock & Admin First Line Manager

Job Overview

Pay Rate: £30,000 - £32,426.94 (dependent on experience)
Grade: RCS N
Contract Type:
Permanent (Full-Time)
Shift patterns: 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday 7am - 3pm

Location:

Burton‑upon‑Trent – DE13 0BB

Join our Burton‑upon‑Trent, Stretton site as a Stock & Admin First Line Manager, where you’ll lead a high‑performing team within a fast‑paced alcohol logistics operation.

• Lead and develop a team of Stock & Administration Clerks and Super Users, allocating workloads, monitoring performance, and managing all people‑related activities including 1:1s, wellbeing reviews, absence management, disciplinary processes, and health & safety compliance.
• Drive employee engagement and foster a positive team culture by supporting Employee Opinion Survey (EOS) action plans, promoting continuous improvement initiatives, and encouraging colleague development and wellbeing.
• Oversee stock control and inventory accuracy, ensuring system integrity across goods receipt, despatch, reverse logistics, stock adjustments, and stock loss investigations to maintain operational excellence and customer service levels.
• Support the Stock Manager with the day‑to‑day management of the stock function, delivering KPI reporting, ensuring compliance with HMRC requirements, and acting as a key liaison between internal departments, customers, and external stakeholders.
• Manage inbound inventory and stock‑related queries, investigating shortages, pick discrepancies, and delivery issues, providing root cause analysis and feedback to the wider network to drive process improvements and stock accuracy.

• Proven people‑management experience within a warehouse, logistics, or supply‑chain environment, with the ability to lead, motivate, and develop teams to achieve operational and customer objectives.
• Strong stock control and inventory management knowledge, ideally gained within a stock‑focused role, with experience of investigating discrepancies, stock loss, and driving inventory accuracy.
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, with experience using VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, and data analysis/reporting; experience of Warehouse Management Systems and Warehouse Control Systems (WCS) is essential.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships, influence outcomes, and work collaboratively with colleagues, customers, and wider network teams.
• Passionate about colleague engagement and creating a positive team culture, with experience of supporting Employee Opinion Survey (EOS) initiatives and implementing actions that drive team performance, wellbeing, and continuous improvement.

• Generous pension scheme with 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution.
• Free confidential 24/7 GP consultations.
• Hundreds of retail and lifestyle discounts.
• Affordable loans, savings schemes and free mortgage advice.

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