Supply Chain Analyst

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Vacancy ID well/TP/83737/12811

Apply for this job Number of Positions: 1 Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time Salary Range : £28000 - £28000 No. Hours per week: 37.5 Location: Merchants Warehouse, Castle St, Manchester Closing Date: 25/11/2026 Job Category: Support Centre Business Area: Support Centre Division / Function: Misc

Overview of the role

Responsible for ensuring the accurate management of stock in both HSC (warehouse) and in Branch, including product forecasting and ordering, depot replenishment and on-shelf availability. Utilising inventory analysis tools to best manage stock levels.

We offer hybrid working with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home each week.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing category stock levels and raising daily purchase orders to ensure that service levels are achieved and that the stores can be replenished.

• Establish quality relationships with major suppliers, driving continuous improvement in service levels and resolving non-conformances. Provide collaborative forecasts to drive better on-shelf availability for our customers.
• Work closely with the buying and space planning team to understand category strategies, providing live promotional tracking and analysis, ensuring full product availability and avoiding over stocks.
• Analyse, communicate and escalate product availability issues accordingly to resolve quickly and to minimise sales loss.
• Interact effectively with the warehousing teams to prioritise intake at Goods In, resolve supplier discrepancies and assist with general stock queries.
• Challenge, plan and support range reviews, deliver with 100% availability and provide a clear stock exit of all de-ranged lines.
• Provide weekly reporting and analysis on KPIs and respond to data requests from other teams in an accurate and timely manner.
• Make recommendations on supply route to drive business efficiencies and ensuring KPIs are met.
• Work closely with the wholesale team to manage stock effectively, driving availability and sales.
• To assist the Senior Supply Chain Analyst and other team members as and when required.

The Ideal Candidate

• Highly analytical with the ability to interpret data and to take action.
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Ability to multi-task and to prioritise in an ever-changing environment
• Intermediate Excel skills, applied use of Power BI is helpful.

Bestway Healthcare is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

About The Company

For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcar