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.