Warehouse Administrator

Warehouse Administrator

12 month Maternity cover

Location:  Shirley, Solihull
Hours of work: 08.00 – 4.00 Mon – Fri (30 mins lunch)

Salary: £25,000 - £28,000

We're looking for an organised and proactive Warehouse Administrator to support the day-to-day administration of a busy Sample Warehouse. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong organisational skills, a keen eye for detail, and experience in a fast-paced warehouse or goods-in/goods-out environment.

Working closely with internal teams, suppliers, and customers, you'll play a key role in ensuring stock availability, processing orders, coordinating deliveries, and providing administrative support across the department.

What You'll Be Doing

As our Warehouse Administrator, your responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining stock levels by ordering products for the production of Point of Sale material and sample requirements.
• Processing order requests and providing accurate information to the Sales Team.
• Liaising with external suppliers to source materials including adhesives, packaging, consumables, and other departmental supplies.
• Raising purchase orders, obtaining quotations and approvals, and processing orders using the QAD system.
• Coordinating customer despatches and arranging transport.
• Responding to queries from colleagues across the business, delivering excellent customer service and administrative support.

What We're Looking For

You'll be an organised, motivated individual who enjoys working as part of a team and thrives in a busy operational environment.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Previous experience in a warehouse administration or goods in/goods out environment.
• Experience of stock control processes.
• Strong IT skills with the ability to learn business systems (experience with ERP systems such as QAD is advantageous).
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise a varied workload.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• A proactive approach with excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across different departments.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to become part of a supportive and collaborative team where your contribution will make a real difference to the smooth running of our warehouse operations. If you're organised, customer-focused, and enjoy working in a varied administrative role, we'd love to hear from you.

Plum Personnel is a recruitment consultancy providing recruitment and employment services for job seekers and employers in Solihull, Birmingham, Coventry and Warwickshire.
We are totally committed to the principles of equality and diversity in recruitment and employment and our recruitment process is always based on your relevant skills, potential and achievements for the job advertised.

Your application will be carefully considered in line with the skills, experience and knowledge required for this role and other similar jobs that may be of interest.
We will contact you within 48-hours of your job application if you are selected.
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