Inventory Operations Manager (Manufacturing)

Role Overview

Inventory Operations

• Manage day-to-day inventory operations across all warehouses and manufacturing or production locations.
• Ensure accurate receipt, storage, transfer, and issuance of raw materials, packaging materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods.
• Maintain optimum inventory levels to support production while minimizing excess stock.
• Monitor stock movements and ensure timely reconciliation of inventory transactions.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Production, Logistics, and Sales to ensure uninterrupted operations.
• Investigate inventory discrepancies and implement corrective actions.

Controls, Audits, and Reporting

• Develop and execute annual physical inventory plans and periodic cycle-count programs.
• Ensure accurate cycle counts, stock audits, and reconciliation of physical inventory with ERP records.
• Implement controls to improve inventory accuracy, minimize losses, and monitor inventory shrinkage.
• Coordinate with Finance and external auditors during inventory audits and close audit observations.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly inventory reports and maintain KPIs and dashboards for management review.
• Monitor inventory aging, slow-moving, obsolete, and non-moving stock and recommend corrective actions.

Process Improvement and Leadership

• Ensure ERP transactions are timely and accurate and support budgeting and inventory planning activities.
• Lead and supervise the Inventory Supervisor and Inventory Team, including work allocation, performance monitoring, and training.
• Maintain safety standards, operational procedures, accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities to improve inventory accuracy and warehouse efficiency.
• Drive automation and process optimization initiatives and improve visibility through ERP and dashboard tools.
• Implement inventory management and stock-control best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 10–15 years of inventory management experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing inventory across multiple production sites is stated as required/preferred in the source.
• Strong experience managing raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods inventories.
• Strong knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Odoo, or similar.
• Advanced Excel and reporting skills.
• Experience in physical inventory and cycle-count management.
• Strong leadership, team-management, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.