About this role
• Job Description and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for consistent training of staff in inventory and operational procedures.
• Request, compile, and review forecast data, maintaining compliance with Standard Operating processes.
• Review slow-moving and excess inventory and create comprehensive action plans to push product and/or disposition strategy.
• Perform as an auditor for facility inventory and compliance.
• Facilitate Quality Control actions and issues, including but not limited to quarantine, tracking sales of compromised products, and ensuring their return.
• Champion new product roll-out, including ensuring new product levels and demand are accurate and feasible. Identify and reduce inventory levels for products made redundant by newer products.
• Manages inventory levels and assists with order processing in conjunction with manufacturing and purchasing to help to maintain the required inventory on hand to meet customer demand.
• Provide analysis and statistical reports for tracking and monitoring inventory.
• Track KPIs on inventory items.
• Coordinate cycle counts and other inventory activities.
• Communicates inventory purchase history to management to determine what should be held in inventory and appropriate balances.
• Interfaces with distribution vendor personnel regarding inventory management activities, including but not limited to cycle counts, issues, receipts, transfers, and stocking levels.
• Extends part numbers as required to distribution centers.
• Adjusts safety stock and re-order quantities to meet demand for distribution centers with input from the Distribution Center Manager.
• Drives operational excellence and best practices across the network with focus on a continuous reduction of cost and inventory to match demand.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Education and Training:
• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
• Bachelor's degree in relevant studies preferred.
• General Requirements / Technical Requirements & Skills:
• Minimum 5 years' experience as an Inventory Control Specialist or similar discipline.
• Basic understanding of accounting terms and concepts, including journal entries, reconciliations, and controls.
• Understand service and manufacturing operations, physical inventory processes, and inventory control procedures.
• Experience working with multiple levels of management.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Able to travel as needed.
• Must not have any personal or legal domestic or international travel restrictions.
• High initiative level.
• Must possess good organizational and leadership skills and be familiar with terminology used in and around the business community.
• Proven leadership and problem analysis skills.
• Must be able to recognize and be discreet with sensitive financial, personnel, and other business-related information.
• Able to quickly adjust priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Able to read and understand technical and non-technical documents as related to contracts and purchasing.
• Able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers and common fractions.
• Able to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in a written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Strong collaboration with Region Managers, Sales, and Operations Leadership, and plant personnel (Production and Shipping).
• Working knowledge/experience in understanding manufacturing processes, productivity, and efficiency measurements.
• Sound knowledge of supply chain processes and procedures, including manufacturing planning, demand, and replenishment.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to reason and influence at all levels.
• Strong problem-solving, presentation, and analysis skills.
• Able to manage complexity and resolve conflicts that arise from balancing multiple priorities.
• Excellent understanding of costing/pricing the non-relationship, and ability to provide accurate data and adhere to tight deadlines.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite (specifically Excel and Word).
• Certificates, Licenses & Registrations:
• Must have a valid driver's license and record that conforms to the Company's insurance policies, ATF, DOT, and State regulations.
• Work Authorization / Security Clearance:
• Authorized to work in the United States.