Inventory & Asset Control Manager in Solihull

Job Description\n

Role: Inventory & Asset Control Manager

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Length: 3 to 6 months

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Location: Solihull

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Rate: £420 to £510 per day via umbrella

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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.

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Role Accountability's

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• Establish and maintain an agreed inventory baseline across systems, warehouses and other holding points.

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• Define controls for stock movements, adjustments, reconciliations and cycle counting.

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• Lead discrepancy investigations and ensure root causes and corrective actions are addressed.

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• Create and manage a recovery pipeline for stranded, returned and reusable assets.

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• Prioritise reuse and redeployment before new purchase.

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• Segment aged inventory and coordinate reuse, resale, refurbishment, recycling or write-off.

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• Improve return and RMA controls with teams, suppliers and logistics partners.

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• Maintain evidence supporting audit, financial control, security and environmental requirements.

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Key decisions you will own

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• Set inventory control, reconciliation and evidence requirements.

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• Prioritise inventory investigations, recovery and obsolescence actions according to value and risk.

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• Recommend stock treatment, provisioning and write-off actions through governance.

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• Decide when recovered or surplus stock should be redeployed to meet demand.

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What success looks like

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• An agreed inventory baseline and clear ownership are in place.

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• Inventory accuracy and control evidence improve, with material discrepancies addressed.

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• Recovered and surplus assets are routinely reused before new purchase.

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• Obsolescence, write-off, audit and compliance exposure is reduced and reported clearly.

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Skills & Experience

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Essential

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• Significant inventory control, asset management or supply chain operations experience.

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• Knowledge of stock reconciliation, controls, audit evidence and root-cause analysis.

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• Experience of returns, recovery, refurbishment or obsolescence.

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• Financial understanding of inventory valuation, provisioning and working capital.

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• Ability to work with complex data and coordinate Finance, Digital, operations and partners.

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Desirable

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• Experience restoring an inventory baseline.

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• Knowledge of technology asset life cycles or stock-related audit improvement.

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• Knowledge of field engineer, install and break-fix asset life cycles.

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