Inventory Coordinator

Your Mission

Hawkstone is one of the fastest-growing premium beer and cider brands in the UK and is moving onto NetSuite as its new ERP this month -tightening up how stock is tracked and reconciled across the brewery third-party logistics partners and College Farm.

Reporting to the Logistics Manager youll own the day-to-day accuracy of Hawkstones stock: receipts movements reconciliations and closure making sure physical stock and system stock always tell the same story - and digging in fast when they dont.

About the Team

Youre the person who cant walk past a number that doesnt add up. Youre happy in a process-driven detail-focused role day in and day out and you get real satisfaction from finding the root cause of a discrepancy rather than settling for a quick guess. When month end comes around you want to be the one confidently explaining exactly whats going on with the numbers - to finance production or a warehouse partner - not shrugging at a variance.

What Youll Do

• Manage goods receipt and stock booking across multiple sites resolving discrepancies with suppliers warehouses production and logistics teams.

• Control stock movements - internal transfers inter-site moves and approved adjustments - tracking each through to completion.

• Own month-end reconciliation investigating variances and maintaining clear action logs until issues are closed.

• Investigate stock discrepancies missed deliveries booking errors and incorrect locations identifying root causes and recommending controls to prevent repeat issues.

• Manage returns damages and quarantined stock owning next steps through to credit rework release or write-off.

• Review and close purchase orders batches and transfers once activity is complete monitoring ageing stock to support accurate month-end reporting.

• Work daily in Hawkstones new ERP system as it rolls out.

• Prepare regular reporting on stock accuracy reconciliations ageing transactions discrepancies and quarantine and support process improvement.

What Youll Bring to the Team

• Experience in an inventory stock control warehouse administration or supply chain role.

• A strong understanding of goods receipt stock movement reconciliation and inventory adjustment processes.

• Confidence working with inventory or ERP systems and maintaining accurate transaction records.

• Strong Excel and data-handling skills with the ability to reconcile multiple sources of information.

• High attention to detail and accuracy particularly with product codes batches quantities and locations.

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple open transactions queries and deadlines.

• Clear communication and problem-solving skills with confidence coordinating across internal teams suppliers and logistics partners.

• A methodical approach to investigating discrepancies retaining supporting evidence and following issues through to resolution.

• Experience within FMCG alcoholic beverages brewing or food manufacturing is a plus as is exposure to multi-site or duty-suspended inventory.