Store Team Lead

ABOUT YOU:

You are an organised and motivated team leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys balancing people leadership with operational responsibilities. With strong communication skills and a customer-focused approach, you can build positive relationships at all levels while ensuring high standards of service, safety, and productivity. You are comfortable working hands-on when needed, embrace continuous improvement, and have the confidence to identify and implement new ways of working.

Required skills and experience:

• Good IT literacy skills
• A full driving licence
• Exceptional organisational skills
• Proven ability to interact with clients and colleagues at all levels in a professional manner at all times
• Willing to be hands on working at all levels
• A positive attitude, the ability to develop and initiate new procedures, a high tolerance for job pressure and the ability for working and communicating to diverse personalities
• Flexible approach to working hours

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY  

This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of the daily operations of the Stores team while contributing to the ongoing growth and success of the business. You will play a vital role in coordinating logistics, managing stock, supporting and developing team members, and ensuring customer orders are delivered accurately and on time. Working closely with the Media & Stores Manager, you will help streamline processes, improve efficiencies, and maintain the high standards that our clients expect, making a tangible impact on both operational performance and customer experience.

Key activities:

• Prioritise and perform the daily workload of the team to ensure the activities are completed efficiently and effectively in accordance with both approved technical standards and client instructions
• Manage, support, and provide training of junior staff in routine and new techniques, including agreed training plans
• Responsible for the performance and turnaround of client and internal receipt and dispatch of goods in line with customer expectations and Intertek Total Quality Standards
• Coordinate and schedule logistics to ensure all customer orders and internal requests for sample or other deliveries are achieved accurately and on time in accordance with company procedures
• Overseeing the back-yard areas to ensure it is tidy and in reasonable order, to ensure safe operating practices and a smooth running within the yard area and assist with disposal of waste as required. Review our waste disposal practices and areas within the yard to ensure that the waste disposal containers are used effectively and collected as required by the assigned vendor
• Support the booking out of stock for goods packed updating the “live” stock spreadsheet daily for any client orders.  Maintaining and updating batch record information for each individual client order.  Support the transfer of stock from the media lab to stores and updating the “live” stock sheet
• Compare physical stock count with “live” stock spreadsheet monthly
• Package items for onshore/offshore delivery, Assist with packing of Dangerous Goods (DG) as per DG Regulations, Preparation of Intertek delivery notes for subcontracts and local collections
• Assist with loading/unloading of deliveries, Provid receipt of deliveries, unpacking and distributing thereafter as necessary
• Assist the Stock controller as required in the preparation of purchase requisitions for the laboratory and for resale to clients, maintaining ordering data spreadsheet

WHAT WE OFFER 

Join Intertek and become part of our global network of inspiring and entrepreneurial colleagues. We are a global family that values diversity and we thrive working together with precision, pace and passion.  We are working to make the world Ever Better, ensuring the quality, safety and sustainability of products and services used by millions of people around the world. 

• Competitive salary/benefits  
• Development and career opportunities around the Globe  
• Working in a highly motivated team and dynamic working environment 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate against applicants, and all qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are proud to be a Real Living Wage employer, ensuring our colleagues are compensated in line with independently assessed living standards. We are also committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and employment to support candidates and employees with disabilities or special needs.

Intertek operates a preferred supplier arrangement, and we do not accept unsolicited approaches from agencies.