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We believe in providing meaningful work and achieving a real work/life balance. Here, you'll find both. Our Supply Chain team is the engine room for getting thousands of products from farms and factories to our millions of customers every day. We leverage insight and data to anticipate customer needs, ensuring they get what they want, when they need it. You'll be part of a team that is data-driven and judgement-focused, always the first to identify and address any issues or ambiguities. A culture of collaboration, customer obsession, and continuous improvement drives us to deliver market-leading product availability and operational excellence, and fuels our innovation. Our Supply Chain team calls for people who champion change, are customer-obsessed, data-driven, and excel at collaborating and communicating effectively - because those people can go a very long way. Why join us Joining our team as an Imports Controller provides you with an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic and fast-paced environment, handling one of the largest transport operations in the UK. As part of our Imports BWS Grocery team, you will play a crucial role in delivering exceptional Port to DC service to our business. We value problem-solving skills, resilience, and strong interpersonal abilities in our employees. Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, you will have the chance to influence at a senior management level and contribute to the optimisation of operations and efficiencies. You will be supported by comprehensive training, guidance, and career development opportunities, allowing you to thrive in your role and make a tangible impact. We prioritise work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, empowering our colleagues to excel both professionally and personally. What You'll Do Here you will be an integral part of the Imports BWS Grocery operations team, collaborating with the Operations Manager to ensure the delivery of a best-in-class Port to DC service for our business. Your main responsibility will be to provide operational expertise to a team of imports coordinators, assisting them in completing container DC bookings in accordance with customer demand and DC capacities. Additionally, you will play a vital role in supporting the Operations Manager by providing necessary analysis and reports to facilitate the planning of BWS, GNFR (Goods not for re-sale) and food stock flow with internal stakeholders and external service providers. Building strong and effective relationships with various internal stakeholders, such as Logistics planning, Grocery Supply chain analyst team, 3rd Party stakeholders & commercial team, will be crucial in this role. Given the fast-paced and dynamic nature of our operations, your positive and problem-solving approach, as well as your ability to influence senior management both internally and externally, will be essential to thrive and excel in this role. Who You Are You are a highly experienced and commercially aware supply chain and logistics professional with a strong understanding of trading, global sourcing, and FMCG supply chain operations. Your ability to provide operational expertise and support to imports coordinators enables the successful completion of container DC bookings in alignment with customer demand and DC capacities. With your strong analytical and problem-solving skills, you excel in forecasting group-wide import container arrivals and managing container storage requirements to optimise stock flow and reduce costs. Your exceptional communication skills and ability to build effective relationships allow you to collaborate with internal stakeholders, external service providers, and third-party partners to ensure smooth operations and maximise performance. Your attention to detail, resilience to challenges, and proactive approach empower you to manage daily operational challenges and deliver resolutions. With the drive for personal development and improvement, you contribute to the continuous enhancement of processes while maintaining a positive and flexible approach to work-life balance. Essential Skills • Able to demonstrate commercial awareness, • Experience of International Supply Chain, • Experience of opening shipping documentation, • Experience of classifying product for customs duty, • Understanding of Trading, Global Sourcing, Secondary and Supply Chain Operations gained in an FMCG environment, • Experience of standard industry import procedures We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibiity criteria may apply).

Responsibilities Do you have some knowledge and experience of pensions? Do you enjoy working as part of a wider team who pride themselves on being a centre of excellence for pensions? Would you enjoy working in role where you get to work with data and look for ways to make improvements? This is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work both virtually and from our brand new Birmingham office with state of the art facilities. This role is flexible, we’re looking for someone who has expertise in either Pensions or Data so please read on and click apply if you have either background. At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organisation, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed. • Accurately processing and checking data and queries by following procedures correctly and meeting agreed deadlines., • Supporting less experienced colleagues by checking files and reports in line with SOPs and agreed deadlines, • Planning, prioritising and delivering assigned project activities for each client (inc client project reporting), • Generating reports and additional information required for client meetings, • Reviewing project tracker and making sure all daily, monthly and annual processes are completed, • Investigation of background to cases by reference to archived files and system data, • Participating actively in client catch-up calls and meetings as appropriate, • Highlighting risks and errors to relevant parties as soon as possible, following risk management processes., • Highlight areas of improvement in the team to increase effectiveness., • Communicating with relevant parties using the appropriate means and language inc attending internal meetings/calls where required., • Building strong relationships with client teams, client representatives and third-party providers, • Achieving team and individual targets (KPIs, SLAs, quality targets., • Contributing to the team, supporting the rest of the team based on their needs (a buddy to less experienced colleagues and supporting more senior colleagues), • Reviewing and updating procedures and documentation, • Maintaining required technical knowledge and behavourial standards, especially all regulatory and statutory requirements., • Performing additional tasks as requested by your manager, • Providing project support to the member events teams (inclusive of revenue & non-revenue generating work), • Having an awareness of the proportion of time spent on chargeable activities, • Reviewing the mailbox and work allocation tool and adhering to the timescales set for all tasks, • Following processes and updating controls Your delivery will directly contribute to the ‘Aon Story’. Having a strong network of colleagues for support is pivotal for your individual development, and your network of colleagues will naturally increase rapidly from day one. Individual development within role will be fast paced, with new and interesting challenges presenting themselves through changes in pensions legislation and industry initiatives. • Be proactive and self-motivated, with a desire to own and deliver the best solutions for Aon, • Have previous experience of pensions data analysis and pensions admin systems, and/or pensions benefit administration, • Have strong time-management skills, able to prioritise and manage several projects, • Ability to identify project risks/issues, and work with internal stakeholders to mitigate Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued. Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status. We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email