Position: Goods In Manager

Position:
Goods In Manager

Location:
Cadbury Garden Centre, Smallway, Congresbury, Bristol BS49 5AA

Hours:
Full-time, 40 hours per week, Monday
- Friday

Salary:
Competitive, depending on experience

An exciting opportunity has recently arisen at our Cadbury Garden Centre.

Are you passionate about ensuring smooth stock operations, managing deliveries, and keeping a busy retail environment running like clockwork? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, hands‑on role and take pride in keeping everything organised and efficient? If so, we want YOU to be part of our dynamic team!

Why Join Us? At Cadbury Garden Centre, we’re more than just a garden centre — we’re a community of gardening and retail enthusiasts dedicated to excellence, innovation, and providing our customers with an unforgettable shopping experience.

Cadbury Garden Centre is also part of the Blue Diamond Group
, the UK's largest Garden Centre Group in terms of turnover, having grown from a turnover of £187 million in 2019 to a turnover of over £400 million in 2025.

With 52 centres across the UK and Channel Islands, we are constantly evolving and expanding, and we want YOU to grow with us!

Our target demographic are AB1 customers, and we attract this calibre of customers by offering inspirational retailing with a point of difference: style, emotion and innovation for the home and garden, whilst providing exceptional customer service.

Our Managing Director, Alan Roper, has headed up the Group since 1999, and we pride ourselves on our exceptional staff retention and in empowering our staff to reach their full potential and enjoy a rewarding career.

The role will focus on ensuring the efficient management of all incoming stock, inter‑branch transfers, and returns, while maintaining a clean and organised yard and stock storage area. You’ll oversee accurate system input for stock movements and take ownership of resolving supplier discrepancies. Team training and development will also be a key part of the role.

You’ll work closely with department managers and the site leadership team to ensure stock is processed quickly and efficiently from delivery to shop floor.

• Oversee and manage goods‑in processes, including deliveries, returns, and transfers
• Ensure stock data is accurately recorded in systems and discrepancies are followed up
• Maintain visual and operational standards in storage areas and yard
• Train and guide your team to avoid repeat errors and improve accuracy
• Communicate effectively with management and department teams
• Ensure timely and efficient stock transfer to shop floor areas

• Counterbalance FLT license
• Strong attention to detail with a high level of accuracy
• Experience in a busy goods‑in environment, ideally in retail
• Flexible and willing to support peak delivery periods (occasional weekend work may be required)
• Excellent communication, organisational, and problem‑solving skills
• Experience supervising or managing a team
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel; experience with barcode scanning and stock management systems is a plus

• Training and development opportunities
• A friendly, supportive working environment where your skills and knowledge are valued

Please visit blue diamond.gg to find out more about us.

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