Inventory control supervisor

Position Summary

Supervises all warehouse and inventory control activities. Provides guidance, expertise and supervision to Warehouse Associates and ensures adequate level of material and/or product inventories are maintained.

Representative Responsibilities

The following responsibilities are general duties that a particular employee in this position may or may not be required to perform. The actual duties required of this position will vary.

• Supervise Warehouse Associates providing guidance and expertise.
• Responsible for all assigned warehouse operations.
• Initiate and monitor all safety policies.
• Review completed accident reports.
• Evaluate performance of Associates.
• Responsible to ensure warehouse and grounds are clean and orderly at all times.
• Conducts performance reviews.
• May coach, counsel and provide discipline up to and including termination of employment as necessary or recommend such to Warehouse Director.
• Ensure adequate levels of material and/or product inventories are maintained.
• Responsible for evaluating inventory needs and implementing strategies to meet those needs.
• Responsible for counting inventory as assigned, identifying and resolving any shrink issues.
• Responsible for making sure that the warehouse inventory is properly rotated and codes are monitored to ensure no out-of-date issue.
• Responsible for placing orders for purchased products and communicating with Pennsauken for produced products.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Experience, Education, Certification

Required:

• Preferred Bachelors Degree in related field and 5 years Warehouse experience and 4 years Inventory Control experience; OR 7 years Warehouse experience and 6 years of Inventory Control experience.
• Ability to drive a forklift.
• Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.

Preferred:

• Related training or certification.
• Experience with confidential files, documents and other information.
• Experience working in a team environment.
• Previous WMS (Warehouse Management System) experience.
• Office equipment including, but not limited to, computer, phone, fax machine, copier and calculator.
• MS Office including Word and Excel.

Knowledge and Competencies

The following key competencies represent qualities, traits and behaviors that a successful employee will exhibit. This list is not exhaustive, as other qualities, traits and behaviors are also desired.

• The ability to keep functioning effectively when under pressure and/or experiencing rapidly changing or uncertain conditions, and to maintain self-control in the face of hostility or provocation.
• Approaching a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach.
• Ensuring that information is passed on to others who should be kept informed.
• The ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others inside or outside of the organization who can provide information, assistance and support.
• Ability to perform with insight, acuteness, and intelligence in the areas of commerce and/or industry.
• Make decisions and act in situations in which there is not enough information to be certain of outcome or implications of the decision.
• Finding effective solutions by taking a holistic, abstract or theoretical perspective.
• Demonstrated concern for satisfying one’s external and/or internal customers.
• Willingness to make difficult decisions in a timely manner.
• Willingness to delegate responsibility and to work with others and coach them to develop their capabilities.
• Identifying the information needed to clarify a situation, seeking that information from appropriate sources, and using skillful questioning to draw out the information, when others are reluctant to disclose it.
• Conveying confidence in employees’ ability to be successful, especially at challenging new tasks; delegating significant responsibility and authority; allowing employees freedom to decide how they will accomplish their goals and resolve issues.
• Enforces laws, rules, and regulations and initiates enforcement actions in a way that the public perceives as fair, objective, and reasonable.
• A tendency to look for and seize profitable business opportunities; willingness to take calculated risks to achieve business goals.
• The ability to develop and communicate goals in support of the business’ mission.
• Openness to different and new ways of doing things; willingness to modify one’s preferred way of doing things.
• Anticipating the implications and consequences of situations and taking appropriate action to be prepared for possible contingencies.
• Working effectively with all races, nationalities, cultures, disabilities, ages and sexes.
• Promoting equal and fair treatment and opportunity for all.
• As a team member, the ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team; as a team leader, interest, skill, and success in getting groups to work together cooperatively.
• Convinces others to follow recommendations and advise to bring them into compliance with regulations.
• The ability to recognize and address issues that are outside our national perspective.
• Issues are viewed without any pre-set biases or limitations.
• Being objective, utilizing a broad framework in making judgments in domestic and international activities.
• Ability to see the “big picture”.
• The ability to gain others’ support for ideas, proposals, projects, and solutions.
• Identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked to or required by the situation.
• The ability to notice, interpret, and anticipate others’ concerns and feelings, and to communicate this empathetically to others.
• Demonstrating support for innovation and for organizational changes needed to improve the organization’s effectiveness; supporting, initiating, sponsoring, and implementing organizational change; helping others to successfully manage organizational change.
• Takes responsibility for one’s own or one’s employees’ performance, by setting clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.
• Helps others resolve complex or sensitive disagreement and conflicts.
• Expressing oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others.
• Takes responsibility for the results and future direction of the organization.
• Demonstrated concern that one be perceived as responsible, reliable, and trustworthy.
• The ability to plan and deliver oral and written communications that are impactful and persuasive with their intended audiences.
• Skill at enhancing others’ commitment to their work.
• Focusing on the desired end result of one’s own or one’s units work; setting challenging goals, focusing effort on the goals, and meeting or exceeding them.
• Identifying, assessing, and managing risk while striving to attain objectives.
• Adheres to all workplace and trade safety laws, regulations, standards, and practices.
• Faith in one’s own ideas and ability to be successful; willingness to take an independent position in the face of opposition.
• Analyzing an organization’s competitive position and developing a clear and compelling vision of what the organization needs for success in the future.
• Depth of knowledge and skill in a technical area.
• Ensuring that one’s own and other’s work and information are complete and accurate; careful preparation for meetings and presentations; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled.
• Expressing oneself clearly in business writing.

Environmental/Atmospheric Working Conditions

The following environmental/atmospheric working conditions are commonly, but not always, associated with the performance of this position. The actual working conditions will vary.

• Indoor/outdoor temperatures/Office/Warehouse environment.

Physical Demands

Lift/Carry

• 12lbs or less: Occasionally
• 13-25lbs: Occasionally
• 26-40lbs: Occasionally
• 41-100lbs: Occasionally

Push/Pull

• 12lbs or less: Occasionally
• 13-25lbs: Occasionally
• 26-40lbs: Occasionally
• 41-100lbs: Occasionally

Other

• Bend: Occasionally
• Squat/Kneel: Occasionally
• Twist/Turn: Occasionally
• Climb: Occasionally
• Crawl: Occasionally
• Reach above Shoulder: Occasionally
• Reach Outward: Occasionally
• Stand/Walk: Occasionally
• Sit: Frequently
• Drive Auto/Stand: Occasionally
• Type/Keypunch: Frequently