About This Role
Leading the organization's inventory and logistics function as a central support service is the core of this role, ensuring equipment, whole goods, parts, and attachments are effectively planned, positioned, and managed across all operating companies and branch locations. The position balances hands-on inventory and logistics administration with process development, system integrity, and cross-functional coordination, and is responsible for key elements of whole goods procurement and order coordination.
Responsibilities
- Oversee inventory across all operating companies and branch locations, ensuring accuracy, availability, and optimal stocking levels
- Establish and maintain inventory targets, minimum/maximum levels, reorder points, and aging thresholds aligned with operational demand and business strategy
- Lead cycle counts, physical inventories, and reconciliations; investigate and resolve discrepancies, shrinkage, and variances
- Monitor aged, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory, and coordinate actions to improve inventory turns and reduce carrying costs
- Ensure data integrity within the dealership management system, including stock numbering, unit locations, status, and specifications
- Plan and coordinate the movement of inventory between branches, operating companies, and customers, ensuring timely and cost-effective transfers and deliveries
- Manage receiving, inspection, and stocking of incoming goods, verifying against purchase orders and shipping documentation and resolving discrepancies, damage, or shortages
- Coordinate freight, carriers, and transportation logistics, balancing cost, speed, and reliability
- Oversee warehouse and yard organization, storage practices, and material handling to support efficiency and safety
- Design, document, and implement standardized inventory and logistics processes, including standard operating procedures, work instructions, and controls, to ensure consistency across branches and operating companies
- Identify inefficiencies and gaps in current workflows and lead improvement initiatives that enhance accuracy, speed, and cost-effectiveness
- Establish key performance indicators to measure inventory health, logistics performance, and process compliance
- Partner with system administrators to optimize the use of the dealership management system and related tools
- Support sourcing and procurement of whole goods, attachments, and parts in alignment with inventory targets, sales strategy, and market demand
- Place and track orders with OEM and supplier partners, maintaining effective relationships and proactively communicating delays, substitutions, or availability changes to internal stakeholders
- Maintain current knowledge of OEM product lines, ordering windows, programs, and promotional opportunities
