Inventory Controller
| Posting date: | 25 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £27,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Pension, Life Assurance, Staff Discount, Cashplan |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 December 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, South West, EX5 2AG |
| Company: | Meridian Business Support |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 58566081 |
Summary
Inventory Controller
The Opportunity:
You will take responsibility for overseeing the inventory of stock within this British Manufacturing business. Your report writing and data skills will be superb, and you'll have a good understanding of the supply chain process and inventory management. The role is key in providing transparent order status management, identifying potential restrictions and delivering a smooth customer journey from order to delivery.
What you'll be doing:
- Oversee all orders received within this busy manufacturing business and align inventory levels, working across multiple departments, communicating with them and producing data reports on stock and delivery.
- Communicate clearly on product fulfilment performance, lead times and stock challenges.
- Track purchase order due dates and provide visibility to colleagues across the entire business.
- Support forward planning by flagging availability issues.
- Work with Warehousing and Logistics on transfers, reallocations, and expedited shipments.
- Manage the full lifecycle of customer orders across multiple channels, ensuring completeness, awareness of availability and delivery of a quality product manufactured in this British company.
- Produce reports on fulfilment performance, backorders, and stock risks.
- Provide insights and recommendations to improve service and optimise inventory use.
- Supporting the maintenance of data quality - accurate order, inventory and delivery data in ERP/CRM systems.
Requires of You:
- Experience in order management, supply chain or customer services.
- Strong understanding of B2B and B2C order flows.
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to analyse inventory and order data to make informed decisions and prioritise actions
- ERP/inventory management system knowledge
- A strong and confident communicator with cross-departmental collaboration skills.
- Proactive, solutions-focused mind set.
- Familiarity with production planning, purchasing, or logistics is an advantage.
Offers You:
Hours of work 9.00am – 5.30pm
Life Assurance
Staff Discount
Cashplan Scheme
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
The Opportunity:
You will take responsibility for overseeing the inventory of stock within this British Manufacturing business. Your report writing and data skills will be superb, and you'll have a good understanding of the supply chain process and inventory management. The role is key in providing transparent order status management, identifying potential restrictions and delivering a smooth customer journey from order to delivery.
What you'll be doing:
- Oversee all orders received within this busy manufacturing business and align inventory levels, working across multiple departments, communicating with them and producing data reports on stock and delivery.
- Communicate clearly on product fulfilment performance, lead times and stock challenges.
- Track purchase order due dates and provide visibility to colleagues across the entire business.
- Support forward planning by flagging availability issues.
- Work with Warehousing and Logistics on transfers, reallocations, and expedited shipments.
- Manage the full lifecycle of customer orders across multiple channels, ensuring completeness, awareness of availability and delivery of a quality product manufactured in this British company.
- Produce reports on fulfilment performance, backorders, and stock risks.
- Provide insights and recommendations to improve service and optimise inventory use.
- Supporting the maintenance of data quality - accurate order, inventory and delivery data in ERP/CRM systems.
Requires of You:
- Experience in order management, supply chain or customer services.
- Strong understanding of B2B and B2C order flows.
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to analyse inventory and order data to make informed decisions and prioritise actions
- ERP/inventory management system knowledge
- A strong and confident communicator with cross-departmental collaboration skills.
- Proactive, solutions-focused mind set.
- Familiarity with production planning, purchasing, or logistics is an advantage.
Offers You:
Hours of work 9.00am – 5.30pm
Life Assurance
Staff Discount
Cashplan Scheme
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
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