Inventory Specialist - Chiswick, United Kingdom - Danone

Danone
Danone
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Chiswick, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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About the job

At Danone we operate Smart Working, this means that our Danoners are entrusted to balance the needs of their role, business, and stakeholder needs with their own personal choices on where and how they best do their work.

We value output and personal contribution, enabling 'Danoners' to be their most energised, healthy, and productive selves.

When team connection and collaboration is required, our hubs are located in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin.


Role Purpose

  • The Inventory Specialist takes ownership of all inbound warehouse activity; managing disruptions, complaints and distressed loads in a timely manner to protect business continuity and limit any financial risk to Danone. The Inventory Specialist is also responsible for the investigation of and resolution to all logístical claims raised by our customers, working in close association with the warehouse and transport providers, customer collaboration and the IBS finance teams.

Role Focus

  • Main contact for primary hauliers ensuring efficient flow of goods by working to resolve inbound issues in a timely fashion (mitigation of service level impacts)
  • Escalation point in case of high impact issues or continuous improvement with hauliers
  • Ensures that customer claims are investigated and resolved quickly to prevent payment deductions or withheld payments for goods (avoid cash flow /ROP impact).
  • Builds momentum internally (with customer and NAM teams) to challenge customer behaviours that drive logistics complexity and costs (COGS and ROP impact)
About you


As a successful Inventory Specialist we would love to see you demonstrate:

  • Knowledge and experience on supply chain & logistics operations
  • FMCG experience an advantage
  • Plans activities in a systematic way; able to think ahead and consider different options to achieve goals
  • Skilled with Microsoft Excel
  • Conscientious and strong attention to detail
  • Strong relationship building / ability to collaborate both cross functionally and with external stakeholders
  • Acts with speed, agility and pragmatism
- driving performance with appropriate sense of urgency

About us


Danone are a world leader across 3 categories: Essential Dairy & Plant Based, Natural Sourced Waters and Specialised Nutrition, many of our consumer brands are household names, ranging from heritage brands like Cow & Gate and Harrogate Waters to international favourites like Actimel, Alpro and evian.

In the UK & Ireland and in every market in which we operate, we are committed to delivering health through food and drink to as many people as possible.


We operate at 5 production sites as well as our 3 HUBS in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin - led by our people who power everything we do and are key to our success.

We are a team of 2000+ Danoners, part of a 100,000 strong global family.

'A force for good', we are the first top 10 branded food and healthcare manufacturer in the UK & Ireland to certify as a B Corp. We are part of a growing global community set up to balance purpose and profit, helping to create a better world while thriving as businesses.


Our mission and values guide how we behave, our flexible ways of working, how we connect with our communities and how we grow & develop our people.

We offer a competitive package including a double matched pension, annual bonus, private healthcare, life assurance, flexible benefits and product vouchers.

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