Job Description
Position Overview:
Reporting to our Director of Distribution Operations, the Inventory Control Manager is responsible for overseeing day-to-day inventory operations of the Austin Distribution Center as well as the integrity of company-wide inventory. This position requires a proactive approach to inventory management, focusing on continuous improvement and operational excellence while reducing costs and risk.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure inventory integrity throughout all channels of the organization, maintaining accurate inventory records while improving inventory processes in support of the organization’s goals and objectives
- Facilitates yearly physical inventory process at the Austin Distribution Center and assists Accounting and external auditors to ensure efficient processes and controls are in place throughout fiscal year
- Manage capacity and spatial elements of the Austin Distribution Center, promoting FIFO and lean warehousing strategies and ensuring that risks are raised with enough time to react
- Ensure effective strategies are in place for physical and systematic warehouse processes, such as cycle counts, shipment audits, replenishment, kitting requests, and slotting
- Oversee labor planning and forecasting for the Inventory Control team, maintaining a model to provide consistent optimization
- Conduct talent assessments of the Inventory Control team and develop skills to build a role fulfillment bench
- Monitor seasonal hiring and training, expressing needs based on upcoming peak workload
- Provide solutions to special project workload requests, ensuring the needs of departmental partners are met while managing workload capabilities
- Research complex transaction histories and data to reconcile discrepancies, ensuring the quality of ERP inventory transaction alignment to physical inventory movement
- Seek opportunities to improve physical and systematic processes, self-generating ideas for improvement, and presenting ideas to leadership evaluating impacts on cost, efficiency, and timeliness
- Actively participate in product life cycle management, monitoring aging products and quantities and partnering cross-functionally to determine strategies to mitigate
- Effectively communicate results to leadership including key wins, risks and opportunities, creating and maintaining a reporting cadence, including analysis of key drivers of inventory changes
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to collaborate and influence multiple internal and external stakeholders.
- A demonstrated understanding of key drivers within the end-to-end supply chain and specifically the influence factors affecting inventory performance.
- Collaborative experience working with key partners throughout the organization, specifically logistics, distribution, merchandising, production, product development/sourcing and finance
- Ability to communicate complex issues, risks and opportunities in a concise manner with specific and complete information to all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated experience managing data both in detail and at the strategic level, utilizing various data analytics tools and inventory platforms.
- Ability to work in a team environment to accomplish a shared goal
- Proficiency in relevant computer systems (SAP, Microsoft- Excel, Outlook)
- Process transactional data accurately
- Review data to identify trends and initiate improvement actions
- Proficient written, verbal, and professional communication
- A growth mindset: track record of leveraging past learnings, encouraging new ideas, and smart risk taking in self and others
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years’ experience in inventory management and supply chain for a high-growth company
- A proven ability to execute with consistent delivery and ability to reprioritize based on evolving business needs
- Proficient computer skills (MS Office in particular)
- Knowledge of ERP, WMS, and other CRM tools
- Organizational and time management skills
- Strong communication skills with a problem-solving attitude
- A growth mindset: desire to learn, grow and embrace new ideas
- A shared appreciation for our 3 core values of Family, Fashion, and Philanthropy
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
