Materials Management Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 11/09/2026
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Role summary
The Materials Management Assistant ensures an effective and efficient procurement service for consumable stock throughout the organisation. This involves ordering and replenishing goods, using electronic receipts and barcode systems, and maintaining stock levels. The role also includes unpacking deliveries, liaising with suppliers, investigating issues, and producing stock reports for managers.
Essential criteria
- A good standard of general education incl. GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in a busy NHS environment.
- Knowledge & Experience
- Experience of successfully engaging stakeholders.
- Experience in stock management.
- Understanding of local, regional and national procurement agendas and how this links into operational procurement activity
- Demonstrable IT including Microsoft Office applications used to create reports and to assist in data analysis.
- Experience of successful collaborative working.
- Understanding of the Green agenda and how procurement can support this.
- Skills & Attrubutes
- Creative, innovative, self-starter able to motivate self and others to complete agreed objectives.
- Excellent inter-personal skills.
- Reliable, punctual, willing to work flexibly to meet the demands of the role.
- Ability to react to situations promptly in order to solve complex issues with inventory and stock availability
- Excellent organisation skills with the ability to prioritise workload to address conflicting demands
- A good standard of general education incl. GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
- Experience working in a busy NHS environment.
- Knowledge & Experience
- Experience of successfully engaging stakeholders.
- Experience in stock management.
- Understanding of local, regional and national procurement agendas and how this links into operational procurement activity
- Demonstrable IT including Microsoft Office applications used to create reports and to assist in data analysis.
- Experience of successful collaborative working.
- Understanding of the Green agenda and how procurement can support this.
- Skills & Attrubutes
- Creative, innovative, self-starter able to motivate self and others to complete agreed objectives.
- Excellent inter-personal skills.
- Reliable, punctual, willing to work flexibly to meet the demands of the role.
- Ability to react to situations promptly in order to solve complex issues with inventory and stock availability
- Excellent organisation skills with the ability to prioritise workload to address conflicting demands
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 9d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Job summary
The role of a Materials Management Assistant is to ensure that an effective and efficient procurement service in regard to the ordering and replenishment of agreed consumable stock throughout the organisation(s) is provided to all end-users, making sure that all goods are ordered and received in a timely manner.
Main duties of the job
To provide internal supply chain services (materials management) using electronic receipts system and bar code data capture system;
Unpack and check items against delivery records and take corrective action where necessary (whilst maintaining audit records);
Provide a materials management service to purchase regular stock and non stock items to meet ward/department requirements
Ensuring stock rotation and replenishing products in accordance with agreed procedures;
Ensuring stock levels are maintained and goods are put away in a timely manner on receipt;
To ensure all designated stock is managed and replenished to the agreed level using a hand held bar code scanner, raising stock and non stock requisitions;
Unpack, check and book in deliveries;
Liaise with internal staff and external suppliers on stock management;
Investigate and solve delivery and payment issues;
Produce stock reports/data analysis to advise ward/department managers and finance staff on purchasing patterns/costs;
Process purchase orders and recommend s
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