**Job Description :** **Job Title: Stock Controller - 2 positions** **About** **us** With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating. About the function Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations. **About the Role** To ensure effective execution of stock movements (all receipts and issue) into warehouse and into subcon vendor accounts. Responsible for ensuring compliance against all Diageo inventory controls and processes, Responsible for minimizing stock losses or damages (quality control, theft, losses etc.) This role is to support the Customer Service Manager in ensuring day to day MOVE operations as matters related specifically to the management of ‘co packers’ operations E2E – walls, wheels, governance, and compliance, including effectiveness and efficiencies. The role will include a high degree of system and transactional responsibilities on SAP Success in this role is measured through a clear set of KPI’s and performance targets. Due to co Packer ‘locations’ – the person may be required to travel and visit both co packers, suppliers, and customers as required by the business. **Location:** **1 x Johannesburg, Waterfall City** **1 x Cape Town, Stellenbosch** **Role Responsibilities:** **1. Inventory Management:** + Ensure accurate recording and tracking of all inventory movements, including receipts, issues, and transfers, in alignment with company systems and processes. + Conduct regular cycle counts to verify stock accuracy and promptly investigate and resolve discrepancies. **2. Goods Receipt (GR) and Verification** + Apply oversight to the goods receipt (GR) process for raw materials, packaging, and finished goods, ensuring quantities and quality meet purchase order specifications. + Collaborate with co-packers and warehouse teams to confirm receipts are accurately recorded in the system. + Address and resolve any GR-related issues, such as missing documentation, quality non-conformance, or quantity mismatches. + Ensure all stock movements comply with company policies, SOPs, and regulatory requirements. **3. Stock Reconciliation** + Perform daily, weekly, and monthly stock reconciliations, comparing physical inventory with system records. + Identify and resolve discrepancies, escalating unresolved issues to the appropriate manager or team. + Ensure proper documentation and reporting of reconciliation activities and outcomes. **Excellence in Supply Chain**   + Previous experience in stock control or inventory management, preferably within an FMCG, manufacturing, or warehousing environment. + Proficiency with inventory management systems or ERP platforms such as SAP, WMS systems etc. + Familiarity with inventory tracking methods, including barcoding or RFID technology + Hands-on experience with goods receipt processes, including inspecting and verifying incoming materials. + Previous collaboration with co-packers, production teams, or suppliers in inventory workflows. + Problem-solving skills to address GR issues such as mismatches, damaged goods, or documentation errors. + Experience conducting regular stock reconciliations in a high-volume environment. + Exposure to resolving stock discrepancies and performing root cause analysis **Leadership Capabilities:**   + **Win through Execution** - Lead bold execution in a fast-moving world  + **Inspire through Purpose** - Amplify our purpose internally and externally  + **Shape the Future** - Create focus and ownership for shaping Diageo’s future ambition  + **Invest in Talent** - Harness the full extent of Diageo’s talent and diversity **Experience / skills required:** + Relevant degree/diploma, preferably in the field of Supply Chain Management. + Min 12 months Functional expertise in warehouse stock management + Good command of English (written and spoken) + High computer literacy (SAP an advantage) + Good numeric skill set and high-level data accuracy. **Flexible Working Statement:** Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one. **Rewards & Benefits Statement:** **Diversity statement:** Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world. **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Waterfall **Additional Locations :** Cape Town **Job Posting Start Date :** 2024-12-24 With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world. Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential. **DRINKiQ** What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. You can discover everything you need to know at DRINKiQ (https://www.drinkiq.com/en-gb/)