Key Responsibilities
- Ensure customer inventory accuracy is monitored and reported timely to site leadership.
- Maximize the performance of the site inventory processes and system to ensure care, custody, and control of the customer’s inventory.
- Maximize the performance of the site inventory processes and system to ensure accuracy (to floor and customer book).
- Maximize the performance of the site inventory processes and system to ensure proper utilization of information technology systems.
- Provide required documentation in support of compliance requirements.
- Manage the planning and execution of proactive and reactive cycle counts in compliance with the contractual service level agreement.
- Develop, implement, and validate procedures, controls and systems that prevent, detect and correct errors in inventory transactions and balances.
- Apply continuous improvement initiatives to drive process, inventory accuracy, compliance, on-time completion, within budget, documented results.
- Design and generate appropriate reporting to track inventory accuracy, shrink compliance, and variance root cause trends.
- Maintain thorough knowledge of internal and customer systems to provide extensive support to the operational team as well as the customer for inventory and production related issues.
- Ensure proper identification and repackaging of damaged product regarding disposal or the return to inventory as damaged merchandise.
- Develop resource plans and equipment needs budget for review with site leadership.
Required Experience & Skills
- Experience in contract logistics especially in a customer facing role.
- Experience in managing and leading an Inventory Team.
- Experience to work in an international matrix organization with excellent stakeholder management capabilities.
- Lean thinking and continuous improvement will be a standard way of Leading.
- Experience with Warehouse Management Systems like JDA, Red Prairie, Manhattan etc.
- Deep and broad understanding of Inventory Control, its financial and operational impacts.
- Experience of Managing Inventory within a Multi User Site.
Personal Characteristics
- Strong personality; passionate, holistic view, courageous, effective in different cultural settings, impact driven and optimistic.
- Strong process-oriented approach to work and excellent attention to detail.
- Resilient team player who is goal‑orientated and demonstrates a high level of commitment with the ability to work under minimal supervision.
- Passion for operational excellence (lean), driven by data & process standardization, able to make sound analysis and translate this into action plans.
- Passion for people and team development.
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