Stores Supervisor

As a Stores Supervisor, you'll lead and coordinate warehouse operations, ensuring the safe, compliant, and efficient management of inventory and materials across the business.

Providing first-line leadership to a team of Stores Operatives, you'll oversee daily activities, allocate resources, monitor performance, and drive high standards of safety, service, accuracy, and operational excellence.

You'll play a key role in ensuring warehouse operations support business priorities while developing a capable, engaged, and high-performing team.

Why This Role Matters Effective warehouse and inventory operations are critical to ensuring the right materials are available when and where they're needed.

This role helps maintain service levels, inventory accuracy, and operational efficiency, supporting the wider business in delivering safe and reliable services.

By leading a team, driving performance, and ensuring compliance with safety and inventory management standards, you'll help create a well-organised and efficient warehouse operation.

Your contribution will support business continuity, improve operational performance, and foster a positive culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Be Doing Lead, supervise, coach, and develop a team of Stores Operatives, ensuring clear objectives and performance expectations are achieved.

Plan, prioritise, and allocate resources effectively to meet operational demands and business priorities.

Oversee daily warehouse and inventory activities, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and operational standards.

Monitor operational performance through KPIs, identify areas for improvement, and drive operational efficiencies.

Manage inventory accuracy through cycle counts, stock-taking activities, and effective inventory control processes.

Build strong relationships with operational, engineering, procurement, inventory, and supply chain stakeholders to support business objectives.

Act as the first point of escalation for operational, inventory, safety, and people-related matters, deputising for the Stores & Warehouse Lead when required.

What You'll Bring This role would suit someone who enjoys leading people, creating efficient ways of working, and maintaining high operational standards.

You'll be a proactive problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to motivate teams, manage competing priorities, and deliver excellent service while maintaining a strong focus on safety and compliance.

Essential Proven experience leading, supervising, or coordinating operational teams within a warehouse, logistics, or supply chain environment.

Strong knowledge of warehouse operations, inventory management processes, and stock control principles.