Seed Fulfillment Supervisor: Inventory, Shipping & Systems

Minnesota Native Landscapes, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Minnesota Native Landscapes, Inc. is seeking a Warehouse & Fulfillment Supervisor to lead its centralized seed fulfillment operation, ensuring orders are blended, packaged, and shipped accurately, on time, and to customer specifications.

You will own inventory controls, seed-lot traceability, and shipping processes, provide day-to-day leadership to the fulfillment team, develop staff, and implement system improvements to support growth while maintaining safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in warehouse operations, fulfillment, production, inventory control, distribution, or a similar operational environment.
• Experience leading employees and coordinating day-to-day work within a warehouse, production, or fulfillment operation.
• Strong understanding of warehouse operations, inventory control, product traceability, shipping logistics, and order fulfillment.
• Demonstrated ability to improve workflows, operating procedures, or systems that increase efficiency, accuracy, and operational performance.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple products, inventory lots, customer orders, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel and inventory, ERP, warehouse management, or order processing systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the performance of MNL’s centralized seed fulfillment operation, ensuring orders are prepared accurately, efficiently, and on schedule.
• Translate order demand and fulfillment priorities into clear daily and weekly work plans.
• Coordinate labor, equipment, materials, and workflow to maintain throughput during changing demand and seasonal peaks.
• Monitor order progress and resolve issues that could affect accuracy, quality, or delivery timelines.
• Ensure seed blending, packaging, labeling, and order preparation meet established quality and customer requirements.
• Maintain accountability for the final operational step between cleaned seed inventory and completed customer shipment.
• Own inventory accuracy and seed-lot traceability throughout the fulfillment facility.
• Ensure seed lots are properly received, identified, labeled, stored, tested, and tracked within warehouse systems.
• Maintain records needed to demonstrate seed-lot integrity and compliance with applicable state and federal requirements.
• Establish inventory-control practices that reduce errors, protect product integrity, and maintain reliable availability information.
• Investigate inventory discrepancies, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate the accurate transfer of incoming seed from production into fulfillment inventory.
• Manage shipping operations for seed orders, including carrier coordination, shipment preparation, documentation, and pickup scheduling.
• Ensure shipments meet carrier requirements, customer expectations, and internal quality standards.
• Troubleshoot delayed, damaged, incomplete, or inaccurate shipments and coordinate timely solutions.
• Evaluate shipping practices and carrier performance to improve reliability and cost-effectiveness.
• Maintain clear visibility into pending, completed, and delayed shipments.
• Evaluate warehouse layout, fulfillment workflows, and operating systems to ensure they support current needs and future growth.
• Develop and maintain procedures that promote order accuracy, inventory control, seed-lot integrity, and consistent execution.
• Monitor fulfillment performance and use operational information to identify bottlenecks, recurring errors, and capacity risks.
• Implement practical improvements that increase throughput, organization, accuracy, and scalability.
• Help evaluate future equipment, storage, technology, and facility needs as fulfillment volume grows.
• Lead, train, and develop the Seed Fulfillment Lead and Seed Fulfillment Technicians.

Skills

Leadership

Inventory management

Operations management

Excel / data tracking

Tools

ERP systems

WMS / inventory software

Job description

Minnesota Native Landscapes, Inc. is seeking a Warehouse & Fulfillment Supervisor to lead its centralized seed fulfillment operation, ensuring orders are blended, packaged, and shipped accurately, on time, and to customer specifications.

You will own inventory controls, seed-lot traceability, and shipping processes, provide day-to-day leadership to the fulfillment team, develop staff, and implement system improvements to support growth while maintaining safety and quality standards.