Manager, Inventory Iii Jobs

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

• Inspires team to high levels of achievement through positive reinforcement and persuasive messages.
• Monitor and manage all PIT programs, ensuring compliance, productivity and maintenance scheduling.
• Demonstrate behaviors needed for effective implementation of change
• Adopt and share best ideas inside and outside the company.
• 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.
• Sustain a consistent, long-term vision through continuous process improvement.
• Actively pursues innovation with the goal of making CCSWB a practice leader within the industry.
• Develop a culture that embraces the tenets of operational excellence.
• 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.
• Improves process and operational consistency to reduce cost
• 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.
• Motivate, direct, coach and develop a diverse, high performing and engaged team to meet established goals and build organizational capability.
• Participation in project work and initiatives as assigned.
• 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
• Ensure compliance to company and regulatory policies.
• Regularly raises team and individual performance standards; is supportive of and drives implementation of new ideas that promote efficiency/effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of the principles of manufacturing and inventory management.
• A High School Diploma or GED required
• HACCP. Good Manufacturing Practices.
• 5-7 yrs of increasing levels of manager or supervisory roles of people & processes.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and coordinate efforts around process improvement.
• Extensive knowledge of basic elements of Good Manufacturing Practices in a manufacturing and warehousing environment.
• Extensive knowledge of specific supply chain capabilities, strategies and interdependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to support a long term warehousing plan showing year over year improvement in shrink, warehouse KPIs and warehouse cost.
• Inventory Troubleshooting. Inventory Analysis
• Working knowledge of national, state, and local regulatory requirements in the areas of food safety, overall safety, environment and emergency management.
• Extensive knowledge of key business drivers used to gauge the effectiveness and performance of an internal group or supplier.

Preferred Experience:

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