About This Role
This Inventory Manager role involves taking ownership of stock accuracy, availability, and working capital for a mid-sized distributor of industrial supplies. The position is crucial for improving inventory management as sales have outpaced existing systems, leading to issues with fill rates and increasing slow-moving stock.
Responsibilities
- Set min-max and reorder levels by SKU class using ABC and XYZ analysis, and review them monthly with purchase
- Run a cycle-count programme across both warehouses and chase every variance to a root cause
- Own inventory ageing, slow-moving and non-moving reports, and drive liquidation or vendor returns
- Keep ERP stock, bin locations and GRN postings clean, working with the warehouse supervisors
- Coordinate inter-branch transfers so one warehouse is not short while the other is overstocked
- Support month-end stock valuation and statutory audit with finance
Requirements
- 6 to 10 years in inventory or warehouse management, at least 3 leading a team
- Background in distribution, trading or manufacturing stores with high SKU counts
- Hands-on with an ERP such as SAP B1, Tally Prime or a similar system, plus strong Excel
- Comfort with GST e-way bills, stock transfer documentation and audit queries
Nice to have:
- Exposure to barcode or WMS rollouts
- Supply chain or materials management certification
- Experience reducing inventory days in a growing business
Benefits
- Direct line to the promoters and room to fix how stock is planned
- Stable, profitable business with long-standing customers
- Support to bring in scanning and better tools where they pay back
Important Details
- Team: Two warehouse supervisors and a team of about twenty pickers and loaders, the purchase manager, the branch sales heads, and the finance controller. Reports to the operations director.
Application Process
- Short call with Flexiple
- Discussion with the operations director
- Warehouse visit with a small case on reorder levels
- Final meeting with the promoters
About the Company
A mid-sized distributor of industrial supplies, serving customers across three states from two warehouses. The business stocks bearings, fasteners, power tools, safety gear and MRO consumables for factories and contractors, roughly 14,000 active SKUs across two warehouses and a cross-dock. It has partnered with Flexiple to hire for this role.
