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Stock Investigator Nights
Stock Investigator - Full-Time Role
Location: Grantham Contract: Full-time (Sunday - Thursday, 23:00 - 07:30 AM) Hours: 40 per week Salary: Annual base salary of £28,992 + full package of benefits and product discounts
Brakes, a leading UK food business and part of Sysco—the world’s largest foodservice provider—is hiring for a Stock Investigator role in Grantham. Join an expanding, industry-leading team that is committed to excellence in food distribution. This role provides opportunities to grow your career in a dynamic, well-supported workplace.
About the Role
Brakes operates a sophisticated multi-temperature warehouse to supply foodservice businesses nationwide. As the Stock Investigator, your responsibilities will include:
- Maintaining optimal stock levels for the full range of high-quality products in our distribution centres.
- Conducting daily stock counts and investigations of discrepancies, ensuring complete accuracy.
- Producing detailed reports to mitigate stock shortages while improving customer service and satisfaction.
- Minimising wastage through effective stock rotation.
- Supporting stock control initiatives to align with delivery deadlines and business aims.
This cerebral yet hands-on role requires you to interact with warehouse teams to deliver the highest possible standards of food safety and product availability. Whether it’s uncovering last-mile opportunities to improve stock flows or implementing new tracking procedures, you’ll help us lead with value and innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Accurate stock investigation: Identifying shortfalls, discrepancies, and solutions, including inspections of cold/frozen environments where required.
- Inventory audits: Working methodically through high and low-value stock areas to corroborate mystery stock on shelves.
- Reporting: Producing clear and actionable reports to relay findings to warehouse managers and other operational departments.
- Continuous improvement: Observing promising systems across multiple distribution sites, adapting practices to enhance efficiency.
- Safety and compliance: Ensuring HACCP and food safety policies are upheld at all times.
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About You
To thrive in this role, bring these qualities and skills:
- Organisation and detail-orientation: Pragmatic attitude in(gloves in) a fast-paced warehouse environment.
- Result-driven mindset: Obsessed with identifying inconsistencies—from paper discrepancies to human error.
- Adeptness with computing systems: Fluent in Microsoft Office, and preferably with SAP, for data entry and reporting.
- Materal handling equipment familiarity: Comfortable operating in distribution settings with storage lift systems or conveyor belts.
- Physical capability: Willingness to perform repetitive, manual activities including scanning systems and lifting packages.
- Engaging communicator: Building trust with delivery teams to resolve issues proactively when needed.
- Team collaboration: Flexible approach to assist where needed, whether shadowing staff or taking notes during audits.
Why Join Brakes?
The benefits package at Brakes is designed to support your entire career—whether it’s your first food industry role or the start of a long-term journey. You’ll enjoy:
- Annual package of £28,992, generous performance-based bonuses, and employee product discounts to value added living.
- Fully funded team pensions with matching contributions from the company.
- Flexible leave: Tapping into 25+ days’ holiday annually (plus bank holidays) to balance work and lifestyle needs.
- Career development: Free access to tailored training, up-skilling schemes, and mentorship.
- Company culture: A working environment where diversity and inclusion are core values—people are chosen for their potential and contribution.
- Innovative workspace: Sense of responsibility in helping feed the public through a family-friendly response, from pubs to care homes.
- Health & wellbeing: Support plans, mental-health initiatives, and the opportunity to grow within industry-wide, niche specialisms.
Benefits & Perks
- Welcome gift at induction
- Annual company car incentives (for eligible operational roles)
- Competitive salary plus a potential remote element on occasion
- Proudly supporting national objectives: Both employee engagement and sustainability targets are shared rewards
- Financial planning support via company workshops
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Brakes
LANCEFULL ICMPANY WAS FOUNDED WITH A SIMPLE MISSION: To enhance our customers’ grandest opportunities in the food chain. Across the UK, you’ll see freshness, choice and service that **Brakes** are synonymous with—all because our **8,000-plus team members** give heart to daily service. Join in.
Brakes values storytelling throughout supply chains, from field to fork and everyone in between. Your enthusiasm for service excellence helps create lasting connections with some of this country’s most iconic brand voices. Our motto is **“ everyday heroes delivering great”**, and this appointment is an opportunity to bolster what we deliver in your first year and beyond.
The distribution sector is shifting at lightning speed—each misplaced palette is both opportunity and challenge. You’ll find Brakes at the core of that industry evolution.
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Diversity & Inclusion Promise
At Brakes, belonging does not happen by default—it’s intentional. Our recruitment process is designed to support candidates through adjustments to ensure equality.
- Contact the Resourcing Team about temporary accommodations (e.g. interview formats, ease of notes).
- Embrace potential more than preconceived roles. Talk to us: you may bring skills we didn’t expect.
- Our values guide a bubbling work culture—collaborate, innovate, care. Embrace challenges and focus on how you can contribute.
Let’s be bold together— tens of millions of meals pass through our hands year-round, and so do we.
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