Inventory Supervisor

Essential Duties

 Essential duties are interpreted as being descriptive and not restrictive in nature. Other duties may be assigned.

1. Performs all work safely and actively promotes a culture of safety, ensuring all inventory and receiving activities follow established EHS standards.
2. Maintains accurate inventory levels across warehouse, production, and consignment storage locations, ensuring real‑time visibility and compliance with company requirements.
3. Owns the full cycle count program, including quarterly physical stock takes, documented reconciliation, discrepancy investigation, and execution of root‑cause and corrective actions.
4. Plans, leads, and executes quarterly physical inventory, comparing results to SAP and completing reconciliations in alignment with Kingspan standards and audit expectations.
5. Oversees all inbound material receiving operations, ensuring accuracy, completeness, compliance, and quality verification at the point of receipt.
6. Ensures adherence to FIFO rotation, maintaining product integrity, traceability, and compliance with material‑handling standards.
7. Optimizes product location and storage layout for efficiency, improving material flow, reducing travel time, and supporting high‑accuracy picking.
8. Conducts training for inventory and receiving personnel, covering inventory processes, receiving standards, SAP transactions, and compliance requirements to maintain a high‑accuracy environment.
9. Drives continuous improvement initiatives across inventory control and receiving operations, using data to identify inefficiencies and implement sustainable process enhancements.
10. Tracks and reports key performance indicators, including inventory accuracy %, receiving accuracy %, cycle count completion, reconciliation time, and cost‑avoidance savings.
11. Leads continuous improvement and facility optimization projects, strengthening operational efficiency, accuracy, and overall material‑flow performance.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Education and/or Experience:  3–5 years of experience in inventory control, receiving, or materials management.

Supervisory or team‑lead experience preferred.Strong proficiency with ERP systems preferable SAP.

Excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and documentation skills.Ability to lead teams, enforce standards, and maintain high accuracy under pressure.Knowledge of FIFO, lot control, receiving compliance, and audit requirements

Must have:

• Experience with business computer applications (Microsoft Office).
• SAP or similar software experience.
• Knowledge and practice of modern manufacturing and warehousing techniques.
• Strong leadership skills, analytical, and problem-solving
• Strong organizational skills; strict attention to detail; ability to multi-task and prioritize.
• Strong communication skills, effective interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• The ability to deal with highly complex issues and to stay calm when under pressure.

Must be able to:

• Work in a team based  
• Set and manage multiple priorities.
• Follow directions and get along well with others.

Competency Statement(s):

• Aligning Performance for Success - Focusing and managing individual performance by helping others set performance goals/objectives and then tracking results and continually evaluating performance effectiveness.  Aligning Performance for Success supports our business drivers of Building a High-Performance Culture and Increasing Global Focus.
• Building Influential Partnerships - Leveraging relationships with internal and external partners to persuade key stakeholders to take action that will address customers’ needs and advance business objectives. Building Influential Partnership supports our business driver of Executing a Competitive Strategy.
• Customer Focus - Ensuring that the internal or external customer’s perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs; promoting and operationalizing customer service as a value. Customer Focus supports our business driver of Increasing Revenue Production.
• Decision Making - Identifying and understanding challenges and opportunities by gathering, analysing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with facts and optimizes probable consequences. Decision Making supports our business driver of Driving Efficiency.
• High-Impact Communication - Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; communicating in a focused and compelling way that influences others’ thoughts and actions. High-Impact Communication supports our business drivers of Building a High-Performance Culture, Increasing Financial Performance, Increasing Global Focus, executing a Competitive Strategy and Driving Efficiency.
• Leading a Culture of Trust & Integrity - Fostering a work environment that encourages people to act with integrity and treat each other and their ideas with respect; creating and protecting a high-trust environment by setting an example, advocating for others in the face of challenges, removing barriers, and rewarding others for demonstrating behaviours that cultivate trust. Leading a Culture of Trust and Integrity supports our business driver of Building a High-Performance
• Health & Safety - The ability to effectively oversee, implement, and promote health and safety practices within a designated area or team. Individuals with this competency are responsible for ensuring the well-being of employees by creating and maintaining a safe and secure work environment. This includes the application of relevant regulations, the development of preventive measures, and the fostering of a culture that prioritizes health and safety.

Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as operating instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Must be able to communicate orally and written in English.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures by using basic math skills (add, subtract, multiply and divide). 

Reasoning Skills: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

All employees have the following compliance obligations:  

- Remain compliant with the Code of Conduct and Policies which includes the Product Compliance Policy. 

- Ensure that all duties related to product compliance are adhered to in accordance with the Product Compliance Policy, Laws, Regulations, and markets demands. 

- Responsible for all tasks to achieve compliance goals and demands of Compliance Management System. 

- Must raise concerns related to the Compliance Management System to their supervisor, manager, any member of the Leadership Team, or through the confidential whistle blower service.