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Inventory & Asset Control Manager

Job Posted: 6 days ago

Salary: £ 420 - 510 / Day
Job Type: Contract
Location: Solihull, West Midlands

Expire in: 22 days

Job Description

Role: Inventory & Asset Control Manager

Length: 3 to 6 months

Location: Solihull

Rate: £420 to £510 per day via umbrella

Sits within the new Business Supply Chain function and owns inventory governance across locations, systems and partners. The role establishes a trusted inventory baseline, improves stock integrity and leads asset recovery and obsolescence activity, protecting cash, reducing write-off risk and strengthening audit compliance.

Role Accountability's

Establish and maintain an agreed inventory baseline across systems, warehouses and other holding points.
Define controls for stock movements, adjustments, reconciliations and cycle counting.
Lead discrepancy investigations and ensure root causes and corrective actions are addressed.
Create and manage a recovery pipeline for stranded, returned and reusable assets.
Prioritise reuse and redeployment before new purchase.
Segment aged inventory and coordinate reuse, resale, refurbishment, recycling or write-off.
Improve return and RMA controls with teams, suppliers and logistics partners.
Maintain evidence supporting audit, financial control, security and environmental requirements. 

Key decisions you will own

Set inventory control, reconciliation and evidence requirements.
Prioritise inventory investigations, recovery and obsolescence actions according to value and risk.
Recommend stock treatment, provisioning and write-off actions through governance.
Decide when recovered or surplus stock should be redeployed to meet demand. 

What success looks like

An agreed inventory baseline and clear ownership are in place.
Inventory accuracy and control evidence improve, with material discrepancies addressed.
Recovered and surplus assets are routinely reused before new purchase.
Obsolescence, write-off, audit and compliance exposure is reduced and reported clearly. 

Skills & Experience

Essential

Significant inventory control, asset management or supply chain operations experience.
Knowledge of stock reconciliation, controls, audit evidence and root-cause analysis.
Experience of returns, recovery, refurbishment or obsolescence.
Financial understanding of inventory valuation, provisioning and working capital.
Ability to work with complex data and coordinate Finance, Digital, operations and partners.Desirable

Experience restoring an inventory baseline.
Knowledge of technology asset lifecycles or stock-related audit improvement.
Knowledge of field engineer, install and break-fix asset lifecycles. 

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