Palatine Business Controller

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary: £26,873 - £28,770 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract: Full time, permanent

Closing date: 6th September

Our clients vision is to be ‘First for Housing’. They have bold plans, and their people are key to them achieving their goals, so they want to attract the very best.

They manage more than 26,000 homes on behalf of the City Council and provide a huge range of support services to their customers. From benefits and money advice to providing a repairs and maintenance service and supporting customers with their tenancies, they strive to make living easier.

They offer a forward thinking and open environment where their people are empowered to make a difference, coupled with competitive salaries and a wide range of benefits.

These benefits include a generous annual leave allowance, local government pension scheme and access to extensive learning and development opportunities plus regular support from your manager.

The Role

Successful businesses don’t stand still, they need to be constantly innovating, improving and developing and that’s why it is such an exciting and interesting time to join the City Council

Thei success means they are looking for a Business Controller to help them meet future customer demand. This role is contracted to 37 hours per week.

Palatine is part of the commercial arm of the City Council and produce quality mattresses. They are growing and have  contracts covering the whole of the UK, supplying the MOD  , Hotels, Care Homes and Student Accommodation, they also work in partnership with the Furniture Service.

You will be managing all aspects of Stock Control and Material Purchasing and Production Scheduling as well as creating BOMS (Bill of materials )  for  a busy  production facility supporting and reporting to the Operations Team leader to ensure they have all they need to produce to demand

The person:

• Their customers are at the forefront of their business, they need individuals who care about delivering excellent customer service
• You will have experience of Purchase Ordering preferably withing manufacturing
• You must have the ability to build up and maintain good relationships with suppliers and customers, both internal and external
• The role is varied and flexible so on occasions you will be hands on and supervise loading of vehicles so be prepared to come out of the office
• You must have good knowledge of IT systems, i.e. excel, word, and be prepared to learn internal systems
• Be prepared to partake in Physical counting as well as system based stocktaking
• You will have experience of carrying out administration tasks
• You will be a team player offering support to the Production team by Planning and prioritising production schedules and ensuring the team has all it needs to ensure On Time In Full delivery principles

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 5 day week Mon- Fri which is day shift
• 25 days holiday increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service, 8 bank holidays, time off between Christmas and New Year
• Salary sacrifice schemes for cars, bikes and home electronics
• Uniform as standard.

They invest in their staff, providing time and opportunities to develop their work-related skills and knowledge in a way that best suit their individual needs.

To Apply

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