What are the responsibilities and job description for the Inventory Control Manager - CBU position at Monster Energy?
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Position Summary
The Inventory Control Manager will be responsible for managing product supply information to the Monster Sales BU they are assigned. They will be an escalation point of contact for any operational issues within their BU network. They will assist in implementing process improvements with the inventory department. Assist with training remote users at our copacker facilities and provide support one the day to day activity.
- Providing help and advise to MEC Sales Team and Product supply team for their BU territory.
- Investigating and solving issues that are escalated and finding solutions or providing appropriate feedback.
- Work closely with Customer Service to understand potential product constraints, ordering issues, etc.
- Monitor OTF performance and address areas where goals are not being met.
- Provide expertise and capacity to rapidly assess and address emerging business issues as they arise
- Assist with training and coaching staff.
- Coordinate Assurance team’s physical audit to ensure auditing goals are being met.
- Putting together process improvements and following through with implementation.
- Review month end adjustments: analyze data to validate losses and provide directive for anything not adjusted at month end.
- Communicating and interacting with a multitude of internal areas including BU Sales, Commercial, Transportation, Production Planning and Finance.
- Assist with the training of new remote users to post transactions and manage transactions within our SAP system.
- Proactively validating SLOB and at-risk Materials/Finished Goods to coordinate with Sales and planning to minimize losses.
- Other duties as assigned by Inventory Control Manager
- 5 years of Inventory Control or Operations Leadership related experience
- Excellent human resource skills: coaching, mentoring, performance management
- Strong communication skills: excellent oral and written and presentation skills
- Strong leadership skills: teamwork, delegation, project management, time management, multi-tasking, cross-functional collaboration
- Track record of successfully identifying and implementing process changes
- Ability to quickly gather and analyze data, present it to senior management in a compelling way, and make recommendations to improve the business
- Demonstrated ability of managing cost performance, supply/demand forecasting and distribution execution across a variety of product lines from multiple sources
- Outstanding analytic and problem-solving abilities are required
- Strong change management skills are required
- Expertise in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- SAP Experience preferred
- Ability to handle multiple tasks in a work environment where rapidly changing priorities can be the rule rather than the exception.
- Ability to function effectively as a member of a team. With willingness to assist with special tasks and projects as assigned.
- Ability to follow strict deadlines and fact-check information
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
