General Purpose

The Inventory Manager provides leadership for the plant's manufacturing warehouse organization and serves on the plant's leadership team. The Inventory Control Manager manages and develops manufacturing warehouse team leads, supervisors, inventory control and shipping and receiving personnel. The Inventory Manager provides warehousing guidance and oversight for all plant associates.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and execute 1 year and 3 year business plans supporting national/regional/local inventory and warehousing objectives including the development and implementation of strategies, processes and programs.
• Regularly raises team and individual performance standards; is supportive of and drives implementation of new ideas that promote efficiency/effectiveness.
• Improves process and operational consistency to reduce cost
• Motivate, direct, coach and develop a diverse, high performing and engaged team to meet established goals and build organizational capability.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize and address the complexity of leading a diverse workforce; participates and actively supports participation in D&I initiatives. Holds self and others accountable
• Shares strategies in a relevant way with all levels; encourages organization to share his/her views and consistently projects professionalism, credibility and calm under pressure.
• Inspires team to high levels of achievement through positive reinforcement and persuasive messages.
• Develop a culture that embraces the tenets of operational excellence.
• Sustain a consistent, long-term vision through continuous process improvement.
• Adopt and share best ideas inside and outside the company.
• Demonstrate behaviors needed for effective implementation of change
• Actively pursues innovation with the goal of making CCSWB a practice leader within the industry.
• Ensure compliance to company and regulatory policies.
• Monitor and manage all PIT programs, ensuring compliance, productivity and maintenance scheduling.
• Builds strong internal, cross-functional networks for effective collaboration and knowledge transfer
• Collaborates with other departments (e.g., Risk Management, Internal Audit, Employee Services, Human Resources, etc.) to direct compliance issues to appropriate existing channels for investigation and resolution. Consults with other functions as needed to resolve difficult issues.
• Participation in project work and initiatives as assigned.

Qualifications

• A High School Diploma or GED required
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• 3-5 years of increasing levels of manager or supervisory roles of people & processes.
• Demonstrated ability to support a long term warehousing plan showing year over year improvement in shrink, warehouse KPIs and warehouse cost.
• Working knowledge of the principles of manufacturing and inventory management.
• Working knowledge of specific supply chain capabilities, strategies and interdependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and coordinate efforts around process improvement. Working knowledge of national, state, and local regulatory requirements in the areas of food safety, safety, environment and emergency management.
• Working knowledge of basic elements of Good Manufacturing Practices in a manufacturing and warehousing environment.
• Working knowledge of key business drivers used to gauge the effectiveness and performance of an internal group or supplier. HACCP. Good Manufacturing Practices. Inventory Troubleshooting. Inventory Analysis

Preferred Experience:

• ISO (22000, 9000, 14001, etc) or other management system. Lean, Six Sigma, 5S.
• Working knowledge of food safety. Self-Guided Work Force. Continuous Improvement.
• Microsoft Office. Inventory management software - prefer SAP. Project Management.
• Manage P&L; Spending Controls. Forklift, Transport and similar equipment management. Change Management.