Strategic Inventory Manager

At Coborn's, Inc. we go all out to “Be Remarkable”. Our culture celebrates employee ideas and encourages creative innovations. We're growing, learning, and overflowing with energy. In a dynamic atmosphere that welcomes diversity, we are investing in our employees, along with the growth of our company. Join our grocery teams and connect with guests in a fast-paced retail position with advancement opportunities where you are encouraged to shine as you use your guest service skills. If you're friendly and dependable and you like to work with a terrific team, we'd love to talk about an opportunity on our team.

About the Strategic Inventory Manager:

As the Strategic Inventory Manager, you will manage inventory control operations throughout the company. You will partner with senior leadership to create and execute on strategy, policies and procedures for all inventory and receiving processes. You will employ standards, metrics, and procedures that maximize inventory management efficiency, achieve targeted guest service levels, and minimize risk, shrink and operational expenses. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to identify and prioritize initiatives to optimize inventory capabilities and develop best inventory management practices and ensure store leadership receives regular and ongoing communication and training.

Additional Duties Include:

• Partner with senior leadership in the development of strategies that affect all aspects of inventory management including, but not limited to, forecasting, planning/purchasing, inventory movement, shrink control including repurpose programs, receiving, and vendor returns.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to identify and prioritize initiatives to optimize inventory capabilities and develop best inventory management practices.
• Develop, maintain, and ensure accurate and consistent execution on all inventory management policies and procedures that align with company’s strategic goals and objectives.
• Implements and maintains inventory tools and systems for tracking, analysis, auditing, and reporting. Employs standards, metrics, and procedures that maximize inventory management efficiency. Ensure relevant inventory and service level metrics are measured, monitored, and communicated back throughout the company’s operational teams, including root cause analysis and action plans. Recommend and lead change based on measurement and analysis findings to ensure maximum opportunity for metric goals to be achieved.
• Provide ongoing coaching, training, and mentoring for store leadership teams on inventory control policies and procedures.
• Provide direct supervision to subordinate team on day-to-day performance of their job. Develop a culture that engages employees, builds team spirit and morale through recognition, accountability, coaching for talent development, and urgency.

Benefits of joining our team:

• Vacation and Holiday Pay
• Employee Discount & Company-Sponsored Stock (ESOP) (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)
• Employee Growth & Development Opportunities
• 401(k) plans with Company Match
• Voluntary Benefits – Including Vision Insurance
• Full-Time Employees are eligible for: Medical & Dental Insurance and Tuition Reimbursement

Coborn's, Inc. is a fast-growing employee-owned grocery retailer located in the Midwest. Our grocery store formats include Coborn's, Cash Wise, Marketplace Foods, Hornbacher's, and we offer unique online grocery home delivery services through our CobornsDelivers and Cash Wise Delivers locations. Coborn's, Inc. also owns and operates liquor stores under the Coborn's Liquor, Cash Wise Liquor, Andy’s Liquor and Captain Jack's brands. Additionally, our fuel and convenience division, pharmacy, in-house grocery warehouse and distribution center, in-house Central Bakery, and Tops Cleaners are significant assets to our operations. We also have a handful of other retail entities in the markets where the fit is right: Little Dukes, Holiday Stationstores, Ace Hardware, Country Floral Gifts & Greenhouse, Caribou Coffee, Dunn Bros Coffee, Subway and Erbert and Gerbert's.

Our remarkable employees strive to inspire happiness, healthy living and simplicity one guest at a time. With a vibrant and fun work environment, ongoing opportunities for career growth, and generous benefit packages, Coborn's offers a bright future for all employee owners.

In addition to the benefits mentioned above:

We know everyone needs a coffee break to recharge from time to time, employees who work in a store with a coffee shop receive a discount on their purchase!

We also offer flexible scheduling. We understand that many of our employees are trying to juggle school, practice, family time, errands and personal hobbies, all with only about 16 hours of awake time in a day.

We celebrate a culture of recognition, encouraging employees to recognize and thank one another for remarkable behavior. We even have an app for that!

We're always looking for motivated, high-potential employees who want to be part of our next generation of leaders! There are opportunities to grow within our company to positions you may not yet even know exist. Coborn's, Inc. offers a variety of development programs for employees who want to grow their careers with us.

Finally, we believe that building a team of people with different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences and perspectives inspires fresh thinking and opens us up to new possibilities. We are an EEO/AA Employer - All qualified individuals, including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Part-time PT part time full-time FT full time grocery retail career new job local