Supply Chain Assistant-150K

Role Overview

The SCM Assistant keeps the day-to-day machinery of procurement, warehousing and asset management running accurately across a group of operating companies. The job combines steady monitoring work — tracking deliveries, receipts, invoices and stock movements — with periodic compliance reviews, capital expenditure tracking and reporting that managers rely on to make decisions. Precision matters here: every unresolved goods-in-transit item, unmatched invoice or unmonitored purchase order represents a financial or control exposure the business cannot afford to overlook.

Key Responsibilities

• Review procurement, inventory, warehouse and asset management practices at each operating company on a quarterly cycle, testing whether they align with group policy and internal control standards.
• Run control self-assessment and key risk indicator exercises, document the findings, and follow up until agreed corrective actions are closed out.
• Investigate unusual transactions, process deviations and unexplained stock adjustments, tracing them to root cause and escalating anything material.
• Produce weekly and monthly inventory analysis and movement reports, surfacing variances, slow-moving lines and emerging trends for management.
• Maintain an accurate picture of purchase order activity: track open commitments, confirm deliveries against goods received notes, reconcile invoicing, and see capitalisation and project closure steps through to completion.
• Monitor capital expenditure against approved budgets and issue monthly reports covering utilisation, outstanding commitments and open purchase orders.
• Chase goods-in-transit and repair-and-return cases to resolution, and support recovery, redeployment or disposal of assets reaching end of life.
• Brief internal teams, suppliers and warehouse partners on supply chain procedures, anti-bribery and anti-corruption expectations and the code of conduct, while identifying where routine processes can be automated or standardised.

Requirements & Qualifications

• A degree in supply chain management, procurement, logistics, business administration, finance or a closely related discipline.
• Two to four years of practical experience in supply chain, inventory management, procurement or logistics.
• A professional qualification such as CIPS, or an equivalent procurement/supply chain certification, is an advantage rather than a requirement.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse stock movements, reconcile discrepancies and convert raw inventory data into clear, decision-ready reporting.
• Hands-on experience with ERP systems and their procurement, inventory or asset management modules.
• Strong Excel capability — formulas, lookups and pivot tables — for building and maintaining recurring analysis.
• Familiarity with monitoring purchase orders, deliveries, goods received notes, invoicing and goods-in-transit follow-up.
• Working understanding of CAPEX tracking, asset registers and the control environment surrounding supply chain operations.
• Exposure to compliance monitoring, audit testing, risk assessment or process control reviews would strengthen an application.