inventory/Warehouse Flow Manager

AppleOne Employment Services; Thousand Oaks (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AppleOne Employment Services in Newbury Park, CA is seeking an Inventory/Warehouse Flow Manager for a direct-hire role leading a high-volume apparel operation across five locations. You will own inventory control from receipt through shipment, ensuring location accuracy, cycle counts, and timely reconciliations on the warehouse floor.

The ideal candidate has hands-on leadership, strong WMS and Excel skills, and a track record of improving flow, reducing touches, and enforcing count accuracy and

Qualifications

• Manage inventory control across multiple warehouse locations and high-volume inventory operations.
• Lead cycle counts, physical counts, inventory audits, reconciliation, movement review, and root-cause investigations.
• Improve warehouse inventory flow, location discipline, picking efficiency, replenishment accuracy, and system-to-floor alignment.
• Train inventory and warehouse teams on inventory procedures, movement standards, count accuracy, and accountability expectations.

Responsibilities

• Own inventory accuracy across 5 warehouse locations, including active pick, reserve, bulk, overflow, transfer, and non-pickable locations.
• Lead cycle counts, physical counts, location audits, movement audits, inventory investigations, and reconciliation activities.
• Review inventory movement to ensure WMS activity matches the true physical flow of inventory across storage, replenishment, picking, packing, returns, transfers, and final movement.
• Investigate discrepancies, shortages, overages, missing units, incorrect locations, unexplained adjustments, and recurring process failures.
• Partner with warehouse leadership to correct root causes, improve flow, reduce unnecessary touches, and strengthen accountability across departments.
• Build, train, and lead the inventory team while enforcing standards for inventory movement, location control, system transactions, count accuracy, and escalation procedures.

Skills

Inventory control

Cycle counts

WMS

Excel

Leadership

Training

Audits

Discrepancy resolution

Tools

WMS

Excel

Forklifts

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking an Inventory/Warehouse Flow Manager for a direct-hire opportunity in Newbury Park, CA. This is a hands-on warehouse leadership role supporting a high-volume clothing and textile manufacturing operation with 5 warehouse locations and more than 1 million units of inventory. This opportunity is ideal for an experienced inventory leader who thrives on the warehouse floor, understands complex inventory movement, and knows how to bring structure, accountability, and accuracy to a fast-moving operation. The right candidate will take full ownership of inventory control after receipt, including location accuracy, movement discipline, cycle counts, physical counts, investigations, training, and cross-department accountability. This role offers the opportunity to make a visible operational impact in a stable, high-volume environment where strong leadership, process improvement, teamwork, and inventory discipline are essential to success.

Key Responsibilities

• Own inventory accuracy across 5 warehouse locations, including active pick, reserve, bulk, overflow, transfer, and non-pickable locations.
• Lead cycle counts, physical counts, location audits, movement audits, inventory investigations, and reconciliation activities.
• Review inventory movement to ensure WMS activity matches the true physical flow of inventory across storage, replenishment, picking, packing, returns, transfers, and final movement.
• Investigate discrepancies, shortages, overages, missing units, incorrect locations, unexplained adjustments, and recurring process failures.
• Partner with warehouse leadership to correct root causes, improve flow, reduce unnecessary touches, and strengthen accountability across departments.
• Build, train, and lead the inventory team while enforcing standards for inventory movement, location control, system transactions, count accuracy, and escalation procedures.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $100,000 to $120,000 per year.
• Job type: Direct hire.
• Location: Newbury Park, CA.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Manage inventory control across multiple warehouse locations and high-volume inventory operations.
• Lead cycle counts, physical counts, inventory audits, reconciliation, movement review, and root-cause investigations.
• Improve warehouse inventory flow, location discipline, picking efficiency, replenishment accuracy, and system-to-floor alignment.
• Train inventory and warehouse teams on inventory procedures, movement standards, count accuracy, and accountability expectations.
• 3 to 5 years of relevant inventory management or warehouse inventory leadership experience.
• Experience managing inventory across multiple warehouses or large-scale warehouse operations.
• Strong background in cycle counts, physical counts, inventory reconciliation, audits, inventory investigations, and discrepancy resolution.
• Experience in apparel, clothing, consumer goods, e-commerce, wholesale, retail distribution, or high-SKU warehouse operations.
• Strong understanding of pick and pack operations, replenishment, storage, warehouse movement, location control, and inventory protection.
• Experience operating or working around forklifts, pallet jacks, and warehouse machinery.
• Strong WMS, Excel, reporting, and inventory analysis skills.
• Ability to identify process failures directly on the warehouse floor and correct them through training, follow-up, and enforcement.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to hold teams accountable while maintaining urgency, professionalism, and operational momentum.
• Comfortable spending significant time on the warehouse floor reviewing locations, validating counts, observing team behavior, and confirming system accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting warehouse operations with more than 1 million units of inventory.
• Experience improving warehouse layout, pick flow, inventory placement, and labor efficiency.
• Advanced Excel, reporting, or inventory analytics skills.
• Experience leading process improvement initiatives in high-SKU, high-volume apparel or consumer goods environments.

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