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The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Import & Raw Material Controller

Location: Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time (37.5 hours, Monday – Friday)

Are you experienced in import customs clearance or raw material control?

Do you have the right mindset and desire to grow in a developing and expanding business?

Are you excited about supply chain management and eager to make a tangible impact on a major company in the nutrition sector?

If the answer is yes, we want to hear from you!!

As the Import & Raw Material Controller, you will manage a fast-paced raw material supply process, with the unique opportunity to define and implement new procedures to enhance production continuity.

You’ll be at the heart of our operations, working closely with internal teams and building positive relationships with external suppliers, customs brokers, and hauliers to ensure timely delivery and compliance.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Review and verify documentation for each imported material requiring customs clearance, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
  • Generate detailed Import Instructions and maintain meticulous records to adhere to AEO requirements.
  • Develop and maintain positive relationships with suppliers, customs brokers, and hauliers, ensuring smooth processes and adherence to delivery schedules.
  • Oversee Material Requirements Planning (MRP), ensuring all necessary materials for manufacturing are ordered on time.
  • Manage Purchase Orders, ensuring excellent documentation and housekeeping standards.
  • Coordinate with 3rd party warehousing to ensure prompt and accurate feedback on all deliveries.
  • Monitor and manage Procurement, Warehousing, and Supplier Performance KPIs.
  • Collaborate with Nutritionists to understand and meet new material requirements.

About you:

  • Import customs clearance experience.
  • Managing relationships with hauliers and customs agents
  • Previous experience in planning/procurement
  • Knowledge of Brexit implications, import rules, and customs procedures (Desirable)
  • Collaborating on compliance matters
  • Ability to prioritise tasks, and a desire to develop within the procurement field.
  • Experience in stock management, supplier management, and import requirements (Desirable)
  • Studying towards or holding CIPS or IOE qualification (Desirable)
  • In-depth knowledge of AEO status requirements and Preferential Trade and Origin (Desirable)
  • Understanding of animal nutrition. (Desirable)
  • Experience with customs documentation, Incoterms, and international VAT.(Desirable)

Why Join Us?

  • Long-Term Development: We offer opportunities for further education in imports, involvement in customer imports, and potential expansion of responsibilities within the department.
  • Supportive Environment: You'll be joining a growing, successful business with plans to expand into the EU, and a team committed to driving the company forward.

 

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. 

About us

Premier Nutrition are a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offers expert advice to customers from some of the worlds leading nutritionists.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.  What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you.  People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture. 

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

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