Inventory assistant (operations)

Salary: The starting salary for this role is £28,000

Location: London

Help keep award-winning children’s books on shelves worldwide by managing stock, shipments, and key inventory data.

Nosy Crow is a multi-award-winning, independent children’s publishing company. We began publishing child-focused, parent-friendly children’s books in January 2011 with the aim of creating books that encourage children to read for pleasure. We’re one of the country’s fastest growing publishing companies: we’re currently the 12th biggest publisher of children’s books in the UK.

Nosy Crow is looking to recruit an Inventory Assistant to support a dynamic and friendly team responsible for key operational tasks across our UK and US businesses. This is a full-time position and is a hybrid role, working a minimum of three days per week in our office near to London Bridge.

The role of the Inventory Assistant is to support the team in managing stock levels across the UK/US, and to help service the business by maintaining and distributing a suite of key reports. The assistant will also minute meetings and provide support on a wide range of tasks covering many aspects of the business.

Key responsibilities and tasks will include:

• Supporting the Inventory Manager with the weekly stock meeting (UK & US)
• Taking minutes and following up on action points
• Biblio - creating PIs, managing prices and other ad hoc tasks
• Raising POs for UK & US deliveries
• Maintaining key reports
• Tracking shipments and providing updates to key stakeholders
• Warehouse stock and price checks
• Checking, approving and tracking shipping invoices
• Supporting fulfilment of our educational partners orders

Key skills, characteristics and capabilities:

• Highly organised
• Detail-oriented
• Strong numeracy skills
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills – specifically excel
• Ability to manage multiple and conflicting priorities
• Can-do attitude and a willingness to help others
• Some knowledge of Biblio would be desirable but not essential

Benefits:

• Pension scheme
• Christmas closure
• Summer hours
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Income Protection
• Critical Illness cover
• Group Life Assurance
• Enhanced parental leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Eye care vouchers
• Up to 80% off RRP for Nosy Crow book purchases
• Emergency loans
• Free fruit and snacks in the office
• Moving day leave
• Charitable/socially beneficial leave
• Remote working anywhere in the world for up to 2 weeks per year

No prior publishing experience is necessary in order to apply for the role.

The successful candidate will have the right to live and work in the UK.

To apply, you will be asked to provide a CV, accompanied by a covering letter of no more than 500 words, outlining why you think you would be the perfect candidate for this exciting opportunity. We ask that when submitting your covering letter, you authentically outline why you believe you are the perfect candidate for the advertised role, without the use of AI tools. We want to see your creativity shine through and gain an insight into who you are and what you can offer Nosy Crow. Using your own voice is the best way to express how you meet our selection criteria.

Please let us know, if you are comfortable doing so, whether or not there are any reasonable adjustments that we should consider that would help during the recruitment process.

Nosy Crow is a Disability Confident, committed equal opportunities employer. We believe that employing a diverse workforce is an important factor in success and make recruiting decisions based on applicants’ experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of race, age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage or civil partnership.

Applications are treated with due confidentiality.

Nosy Crow is a member of the Living Wage foundation.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.