Laverne Group is looking for a hands-on Inventory Controller Supervisor with strong experience in inventory control, warehouse operations, stock accuracy, and inventory optimization. The role is responsible for maintaining physical and system stock integrity, leading inventory-count activities, investigating discrepancies, strengthening inventory controls, and improving stock organization and space utilization.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and execute perpetual, event-based, cycle, and wall-to-wall physical inventory counts.
- Maintain high levels of inventory accuracy and alignment between physical stock and ERP/WMS records.
- Investigate inventory discrepancies, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Resolve stock mismatches, negative inventory, incorrect locations, system discrepancies, and related inventory-integrity issues.
- Maintain inventory hygiene through accurate SKU identification, labeling, bin locations, and stock organization.
- Support warehouse-space optimization, storage-capacity utilization, and effective inventory placement.
- Monitor slow-moving, obsolete, damaged, and aging inventory and highlight required actions.
- Maintain inventory-control procedures, reconciliation routines, discrepancy trackers, and audit schedules.
- Coordinate with Warehouse, Procurement, Production, and Finance to resolve inventory issues and maintain accurate records.
- Develop and maintain inventory KPIs, stock-accuracy reports, count-completion reports, and discrepancy analysis.
- Supervise inventory-control activities and reinforce process discipline across the inventory team.
Requirements
- 4-6 years of relevant experience in inventory control or warehouse inventory operations.
- Strong hands-on experience managing large-scale inventory and multiple SKUs.
- Experience with raw materials, packaging materials, or manufacturing warehouses is preferred.
- Proven expertise in cycle counting, stock reconciliation, inventory adjustments, discrepancy resolution, and stock-accuracy improvement.
- Hands-on ERP/WMS experience; Microsoft Dynamics 365 experience is an advantage.
- Strong Microsoft Excel, analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Ability to supervise inventory teams and drive disciplined inventory-control practices.