JOB TITLE: Supply Chain and Stock Controller Manager

REPORTS TO: Project Lead and Sourcing Lead

LOCATION: Malaysia Office, Selangor, KL

BENEFITS: Competitive basic salary + 20 days holiday + 11 bank holidays + your birthday off + Medical insurance + other company benefits (Awards & Benefits scheme)

HOURS: Full time, 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday – Hours TBC to allow

Cross over with the UK

Company background

FSC is a family business with more than 35 years of award-winning experience in creating,

rolling out and managing bespoke customer food-on-the-move solutions. Our

customers include a selection of blue-chip companies in various industries, such as Shell, National Trust, Waterstones and Dunelm.

We offer a range of consultancy services drawing on our in-depth knowledge of the

food-on-the-move sector and have managed projects all over the world.

Our Head Office is located in the world-famous village of Cheddar, our Innovation Centre is based near Bristol in Flax Bourton, in addition to an office in Prague (Czech Republic), and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

Although our colleagues are based all over the world, we regularly get together to review performance, share best practice and socialise! As well as working in a challenging and fast-moving environment, we believe it is important to have a big chunk of fun and no day is ever the same at FSC.

At FSC we believe in ethical stewardship of all aspects within our business. This means that we thrive in a diverse, equitable culture where we celebrate inclusion and empowerment within our teams, and seek to always support our global community, minimising our carbon footprint wherever possible.

To help grow this awareness we have adopted a companywide ESG focus.

Purpose of role:

To play a proactive and integral role within the Private Label agile team by supporting the Project Lead and Sourcing Lead in the effective delivery of projects and ongoing business supply chain operations.

The key deliverables will focus on responsibility for supply chain set ups, and managing product availability across manufacturers, aggregator and wholesalers.

The role will also require business development support co-ordinating samples for major conferences and potential new customers

In addition, you would be looking at continuous improvement to ways of working. To undertake online market research to build and maintain a competitor database, and provide reliable documentation, data analysis, and coordination support to ensure projects are delivered efficiently and to agreed timelines when required.

The role will involve:

· Provide day-to-day supply chain support to the Private Label Project Lead & Sourcing Lead based in Europe.

· Manage Product Availability across Manufacturers, Aggregator and Wholesalers to ensure full stock availability in line with various production schedules, Minimum Order Quantities for production and packaging from different suppliers.

· Business Development support Co-Ordinating Samples for major conferences and potential new customers.

· Some customer sales data sorting and analysis (work with Excel spreadsheets).

· Responsible for providing performance data in line with customer meetings.

· Maintain and update product databases, new supplier and product setup forms, and other internal tracking documents.

· Assist with documentation such as product specifications, packaging approvals, and compliance forms.

· Contribute to process improvement by identifying opportunities for greater efficiency or better documentation.

· Online market research support for various customer presentations as required (competitors, trends etc.) as needed.

· Building competitor data for analysis, from competitor visits completed by other team members from around the world as needed.

Qualifications (academic and work-related)

· Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline. (supply chain, logistics, or business)

· Professional certifications like CIPS or CILT would be an advantage

Essential

· Experience with supply chain and stock control management (ideally within FMCG).

· Forecasting orders experience and review.

· Excellent organisational and time-management skills with strong attention to detail

· Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Power BI); experience with project management tools like Smart Sheet but not essential

· Strong Excel skills (such as Pivot tables, VLOOKUP / XLOOKUP, Charts and reporting)

· Data analysis skills.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills (English)

· Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities.

· Proactive, resourceful, and able to work independently with minimal supervision

Skills and behaviours needed for the role

· Highly numerate

· Excellent organisational skills

· A self-starter

· Able to work independently/ part of a team

· Strong work ethics and accountability.

· Flexibility (especially due to different time zones of stakeholders)

· Relishes working in a fast-paced environment in a hands-on capacity

· Enjoys frequent challenges, change and working in multiple locations

· Has a natural can-do attitude and attention to detail

· Shows initiative

· Has ability to learn to use new software quickly

· Ability to travel