Team Lead - Inventory Control

As our Inventory Control Lead, you will leverage your experience with inventory management best practices to guide a dedicated team toward achieving accurate, efficient, and cost-effective inventory operations. You will champion process improvements, analyze key performance metrics, and collaborate across departments to ensure optimal material flow and data integrity. This role provides an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to our mission, nurture a positive team culture, and support continuous improvement throughout the organization.

Essential Job Functions:

• Assist Department Manager in the assignment of work
• Oversee the progress of work in inventory control, ensuring safety standards are met
• Helping to develop and redefine inventory control processes and SOPs to reduce discrepancies, enhance data integrity, and improve overall efficiency
• Train employees in work procedures
• Work with the manager to help develop guidelines and strategies for goal achievement
• Monitor and help improve departmental key performance indicators (e.g., cycle count accuracy, inventory turns, start picks on-time)
• Acts as an escalation point for team on complex task for troubleshooting
• Coordinate with production teams and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth flow of materials, timely replenishment, and effective order fulfillment
• Ensure that the inventory control responsibilities meet compliance and audit readiness
• Requires balancing high-level technical expertise (e.g., EPICOR and inventory analytics) with a commitment to human development through coaching, mentoring, and team-building.
• Steward our mission and values (unwavering integrity, servant’s heart, ownership spirit and continuous innovation and improvement).
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications:

• 5 years in inventory control, supply chain, or related fields
• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite and EPICOR or other ERP software
• Hi-lo experience is preferred

Education Requirements:

• High School diploma or GED required.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to move items 50 pounds.
• Standing for extended periods of time.

Travel Requirements:

• None required.

Professional Certifications:

None required.

Core Principles:

Leadership Qualities & Behaviors:

Live IPM Values

• We exhibit the eight behaviors of love: patience, kindness, humility, honesty, respectfulness, selflessness, forgiveness, and commitment.

• We demonstrate care, empathy, and support for our employees.

• We are genuinely interested in the lives of our employees.

• We submit ourselves to the highest standards for modeling our values of Unwavering Integrity, Servant’s Heart, Ownership Spirit, and Continuous Innovation & Improvement.

Chart the Course

• We clearly understand, articulate, and steward our mission, values and vision.

• We proactively align our team’s knowledge and work with our vision, strategies, and plans.

• We create a shared vision with our teams describing who and what we are striving to become.

• We learn about and create support for initiatives undertaken across our company.

• We are flexible and respond positively to unforeseen obstacles and circumstances.

• We provide context for our decisions.

• We are unified as leaders and fully support decisions made by our leadership team.

Energize Others

• We strive for daily contact with our employees.

• We understand and convey the importance of our employee’s work.

• We look for ways to build our employee’s self-esteem.

• We collaborate with employees in setting individual and team deliverables.

• We recognize employees for their positive contributions to our values and performance.

• We candidly discuss with employees how they are measuring up to expectations.

• We create excitement around our mission, values, vision, strategies, plans and deliverables.

• We celebrate individual, team and company success, and progress gained from failure.

• We acknowledge and own the mistakes we make as leaders.

Raise the Bar

• We instill the mindset that the status quo must be challenged.

• We foster a culture where learning and smart risk taking are expected.

• We elevate expectations and inspire others to do the same.

• We hold employees accountable for behavior aligned with our values.

• We hold employees accountable for performance that meets expectations.

• We hire great people because of their values, and ability or potential to perform.

• We seek feedback from employees on how well we model our values and perform as leaders.

Job Specific Competencies:

• Action Oriented – Performs work energetically. Seizes opportunities. Reacts quickly to critical situations.
• Problem Solving - Able to solve problems using logic, judgment and data to determine effective solutions.
• Drive for Results - Pursues goals with energy, drive, and a need to finish. Does not give up, faces resistance or setbacks well; pushes self and others for results.
• Motivating Others - Creates a climate in which people want to do their best. Able to motivate direct reports and team members. Is someone for whom people like to work.
• Safety - Refers to training, licensing, safety procedures and use of special equipment to prevent injury in the workplace. The employee inspects the work environment and equipment. The employee stores products and equipment in its proper location to ensure an organized work area. The employee is following standard operating procedures, safety work rules and good general practices.
• Organizing - Able to use resources (people, funding, material, support) to get things done. Able to orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal. Uses resources effectively and efficiently. Arranges information and files in a useful manner.
• Use of Technology - Able to use technology to accomplish tasks and optimize performance.
• Work Quality - Able to achieve desired outcomes with a minimum of avoidable errors and problems.
• Initiative - Identifies opportunities and issues, proactively acts and follows through on work activities to resolve or capitalize on them.