Inventory Control Manager

Position Summary:

The Inventory Control Manager will partner closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Warehouse, Purchasing, Quality, Finance, and IT to improve inventory accuracy, optimize processes, and provide data-driven insights that support business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Inventory Control team and establish department goals and KPIs.
• Own inventory accuracy, cycle counting, physical inventories, reconciliation, and inventory controls.
• Analyze inventory variances, trends, and operational data to identify root causes and improvement opportunities.
• Serve as a key business partner for the new ERP implementation and go-live, including process mapping, testing, data validation, UAT, training, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure inventory master data, transaction flows, locations, units of measure, and system processes are accurate and maintained.
• Develop advanced reports, dashboards, and KPIs to provide actionable inventory and operational insights.
• Partner with IT and business teams to resolve system issues and improve ERP/WMS functionality.
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting, improve data integrity, and streamline inventory processes.
• Support inventory planning, working capital optimization, and reduction of excess, obsolete, and inaccurate inventory.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, and root-cause analysis.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, GMP, HACCP, SQF/BRC, FIFO/FEFO, and traceability requirements.