Logistics Administrator

Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.

We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

The Role:

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Logistics administrator to join the team, to enable Hovis to deliver on its vision of being the best quality brand in bakery. To provide the Supply Chain and Logistics teams with administrative support, enabling the functions to provide an effective service to the wider Belfast team through the timely and accurate provision of data.

Key Accountabilities:

Working with the Despatch and Radial teams, some of the key accountabilities include;

• 
  KPI and data management
  • Maintain SAP Reports and requests
  • Use of ID Hammer for reports on request for Site Mgmt
  • Update PTL system
  • Despatch reporting as required
• Purchasing
  • Ordering within SAP system as required
  • PO generation and tracking
• Service Management
  • Responds to requests with fast and accurate turnarounds and in line with agreed SLAs

• Support customer service, by working closely with customers, to confirm deliveries, answering queries and inputting manual Delivery and credit notes
• Input of customer orders and invoice

• Constantly challenges the status quo to ensure process efficiency and effectiveness is maximised at all times

The ideal candidate will be one that is passionate not only about the work they do but the brand they work for, takes ownership of what they do, and is able to influence multiple stakeholders in the right way. They will also be able to focus individuals on specific tasks and behaviours, by bringing a positive, encouraging and consistent behaviour and are able to create a compelling story for the future as well as role model the Hovis Leadership Standards.

Ideal Experiences / Qualifications / Capabilities:

Essential:

• 
  Excellent knowledge on Excel,Word and Powerpoint
• Strong communication skills – both written and verbal
• Flexibility
• Willingness to work on own initiative
• High standard of accuracy and organisation, attention to detail and strong interpersonal skills

This is an on site office based role.

Why work for us and our benefits:

At Hovis, we understand the importance of looking after our colleagues, so we provide a variety of benefits in addition to their salaries. The benefits we provide at Hovis are as varied as the people who receive them but they are offered with the intention of creating value to them personally over and above their salaries

• There is a range of colleague benefits available, which individuals can select based on their needs.

• Our benefits scheme is called Hovis Choice, which offers a variety of savings and cashback offers on day to day living and much more including eyecare vouchers, and a healthcare scheme to suit everyone. It also includes our Cycle to Work scheme where you can obtain a brand new bike at a significant saving

• We offer competitive annual leave entitlement and flexibility where possible in order to create a healthy work-life balance

• We celebrate loyalty with our generous long service and colleague recognition schemes

• We offer three levels of pensions

Hovis values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. Every job applicant, employee or worker will be treated fairly and equally with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.