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Midwest Refrigerated Services · 1 week ago

Inventory Manager

Belvidere, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$70K/yr - $75K/yr

Midwest Refrigerated Services is a full-service 3PL company providing refrigerated logistics services for the food industry. The Inventory Manager is responsible for overseeing the Inventory team, ensuring inventory accuracy, maintaining a safe work environment, and fostering a positive culture within the organization.

Freight ServiceWarehousing

Responsibilities

Maintain regular, punctual attendance and comply with all safety, food safety, food defense, regulatory, and company policies

Ensure fair, professional treatment of employees and help develop a high-performing team

Participate in hiring, onboarding, training, staffing, and disciplinary actions, monitor attendance, breaks, and lunches

Build and sustain strong relationships with customers and team members

Use data to prioritize and assign daily merchant care tasks/tickets; track progress and ensure timely, accurate resolution

Resolve customer issues (OS&D); collaborate directly with leaders

Ensure inventory accuracy, manage inventory counts, resolve discrepancies, and identify risks that may lead to inventory loss

Maintain inventory KPIs

Maintain, facilitate and report weekly our Quarterly and EOY inventory cycle counts

Produce weekly reports and provide feedback on process improvements, tools, and best practices to enhance inventory control and efficiency

Drive process, performance, workflow, and customer-service improvements; ensure benchmarking standards are met

Ensure completion of accessorial charge documentation and adherence to all policies and procedures

Maintain a safe, healthy work environment by enforcing standards and complying with legal regulations

Serve as backup for recall leadership

Provide additional shift coverage as needed for staff and leadership PTO

Foster a positive, value-driven culture that encourages open communication and continuous improvement

Oversee inventory quality control, managing QA holds and ensuring all inventory follows established QA processes and compliance standards

Responsible for velocity slotting, to include specific customer pallet position adjustment based on seasonality and needs

Assist in Recall and Mock recall exercises

OS & D and claim investigation and resolution

Document root causes of Inventory issues

Work with other management and warehouse team to resolve all issues identified through corrective actions, coaching and retraining as needed

Identify WMS system issues and work with IT for resolution

Participate in off-hours meetings and training

Train Inventory team members as needed on inventory related processes and tasks

Nurture a safety minded culture

Participate in incident investigations as needed

Maintain high sanitation standards

Direct supervision of Inventory team

Providing productive feedback to subordinates and establishing development plans

Initiates and administers appropriate disciplinary actions when necessary

Qualification

Inventory managementData analysisTeam leadershipForklift operationRF inventory systemsSafety awarenessMathematical skillsEnglish proficiencyCommunication skillsProblem-solving