Hachette UK
Inventory Manager
Job Location
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Who we are and what we do
Hodder Education is the home of accessible, future-proofed educational resources where we put students, teachers and parents at the heart of everything we do. Our goal is to help every teacher and learner across the globe to succeed by creating and delivering high-quality content and support.
Hodder Education is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 12 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.
What you'll be doing
The Inventory Manager plays a key role in the Operations team within Education and in conjunction with the Hachette Group, including the distribution centre. The role oversees the stock management process, maintaining appropriate stock levels to meet demand yet minimising storage charges and overstocks, working collaboratively with publishers, sales, marketing and production teams. You'll take a proactive role, working with Production and Content teams to procure reprints cost-effectively. You'll use data to support and drive decision-making and optimise our metadata to ensure our inventory management is of the highest quality.
The successful candidate will need to:
The above list is not exclusive or exhaustive and the job holder may be required to undertake such other duties as may reasonably be required.
Who we are looking for
For this role one will need to know:
This role will need to have:
Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:
The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.
Our commitment
Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.
If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.
The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org
Location: London, GB
Posted Date: 9/11/2024
Hodder Education is the home of accessible, future-proofed educational resources where we put students, teachers and parents at the heart of everything we do. Our goal is to help every teacher and learner across the globe to succeed by creating and delivering high-quality content and support.
Hodder Education is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 12 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.
What you'll be doing
The Inventory Manager plays a key role in the Operations team within Education and in conjunction with the Hachette Group, including the distribution centre. The role oversees the stock management process, maintaining appropriate stock levels to meet demand yet minimising storage charges and overstocks, working collaboratively with publishers, sales, marketing and production teams. You'll take a proactive role, working with Production and Content teams to procure reprints cost-effectively. You'll use data to support and drive decision-making and optimise our metadata to ensure our inventory management is of the highest quality.
The successful candidate will need to:
- Play a key role in managing stock levels using weekly reporting and daily monitoring of high sales
- Manage Hodder Ed current recommended stock levels with a view to maximise profitability, including considering offshore schedules in the context of when stock is required
- Manage the division's auto-stock replenishment and POD programmes, minimising stock quantities
- Use the division's Critical Stock Report to facilitate efficient ordering of high profile titles
- Maintain good housekeeping over inventory management, including title status changes, data review and cleansing etc
- Oversee the periodic stock destruction exercise in liaison with publishers and sales teams
- Communicate figures to stakeholders, ensuring appropriate quantities of books are always available
- Provide support, analysis and training to the wider division to ensure that there is a general understanding of the importance of inventory management, and the key drivers of success
- Liaise with Reprint Editors to initiate reprint corrections early in the process
- Deal with queries from Publishers/Editorial/Sales/Customer Services/Finance
- Working with finance and production to improve demand planning capabilities
The above list is not exclusive or exhaustive and the job holder may be required to undertake such other duties as may reasonably be required.
Who we are looking for
For this role one will need to know:
- How publishing works in terms of metadata, outputs to retailers, sales and returns models
- How to manage publishing systems to maintain data integrity, quality product info and accurate feeds to suppliers and retailers
- How to build understanding of the diverse business products, including market models and sales trends
- How to manipulate and summarise large data sets
- How to write reports, proposals and presentations in a concise manner that delivers incisive analysis and recommendations to non-specialists
- How to prioritise competing requirements against business-critical deadlines by multi-tasking and careful stakeholder management
This role will need to have:
- Proven experience of inventory management and/or sales analysis is required, as is publishing experience.
- Systems experience on publishing systems such as Biblio, and experience of using a data warehouse, such as Cognos / Extent / Genesis
Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:
- 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- Generous pension schemes
- Rent deposit loans
- 2 community days per year
- Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
- Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Eye care vouchers
- Wide-ranging training library
- Development programmes (including mentoring)
- Up to 70% off book purchases
- A charity bookshelf
- 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
- Season ticket loans
- And much more!
The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.
Our commitment
Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.
If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.
The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org
Location: London, GB
Posted Date: 9/11/2024
Contact Information
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