Inventory & Purchasing Coordinator

The Great British Card Company (GBCC) is one of the UK’s largest independent card publishers supplying customers including large UK supermarkets, high street specialists, garden centres and post offices both in the UK and via distributors overseas. Publishing and selling 20 million cards across everyday and seasonal such as Christmas and Mother’s Day, availability and stock levels are key to our demanding customer base. In addition, we supply product categories such as giftwrap, gift packaging and gift stationery sourced mainly from China.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive purchasing professional within our procurement team team based in Gloucester.

We are looking for an individual to work closely with the Head of Product Management to support forecasting and help ensure the on-time supply of greetings cards and related components.

The role involves building an understanding of supplier capabilities, production capacity, and customer requirements, improving shipping efficiency, including container fill and scheduling, coordinating reprints and new launches, maintaining accurate and up-to-date system data and offering support across the department.

We are looking for someone who can ensure accuracy and clarity at all times, has strong Excel skills, is a great communicator with a methodical approach and great attention to detail.

Experience in procurement, buying, forecasting and/or stock level monitoring is essential, and experience in an FMCG environment would be advantageous.

If this exciting opportunity interests you please apply now!

The Great British Card Company operates an equal opportunities policy to ensure that we do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, marital status, colour, race, religion, ethnic or national origin, age or disability when recruiting people or promoting existing employees.

Job Types: Permanent, Full-time

Pay: From £40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance
• Sick pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Stonehouse GL10: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Purchasing: 1 year (required)
• Forecasting: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person