Supervisor, Inventory Operations

Description

Come join our team! $1,000 Retention Bonus (after 1 year) Paid Time Off 11 Paid Holidays Eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan Competitive Benefits

MPS, a division of Macmillan Publishers, a leading US publisher of Trade and Academic titles, has a job opening for a Supervisor, Inventory Operations in our Gordonsville facility. MPS provides back office support, warehousing, and, fulfillment for Macmillan US, and is their primary distribution facility for North America.

Purpose of the Role:The Supervisor, Inventory Operations will be responsible for planning and coordinating activities related to the management of MPS Inventories at the Gordonsville and Offsite storage locations. Directing staff to ensure timely processing of scheduled trucks in/out of each site. Will support Inventory Control personnel in facilitating receipts, counts and inspections of inventories as needed. Will maintain reporting on established metrics and responsible for enforcing safety, health and housekeeping policies.

Key responsibilities/tasks:

Manages and communicates with internal and external customers on inventory statuses, rework, and inspections

Coordinates and facilitates the cycle count program.

Work with traffic and receiving to route inbound shipments to proper docks as needed based on laydown and off-site shipping opportunities.

Manages Destroy requests, and facilitates the processing of these.

Will serve as a key backup support for the Analyst roles and responsibilities.

Work in tandem with receiving department to ensure adequate resources are in place to complete operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees effectively with appropriate follow up.

Enforces established safety, health, and housekeeping policies and procedures in order to minimize injuries, loss of production time, and damage

Monitors employees time, tracks paid time off, authorizes and forwards employees time sheets to Payroll Department.

Education: High school diploma or equivalent; and one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Essential Skills/experience required:

Solid communication and support skills. Ability to explain complex concepts and analytics to non-technical audiences.

Attention to detail, passion for problem-solving, creative thinking and comfort with ambiguity of requirements and expected results.

Excellent multi-tasking skills, ability to prioritize and handle many projects at once with ever shifting priorities and deadlines.

Sound judgment in maintaining confidentiality of information

Ability to exercise independent judgement within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions to meet above responsibilities

Proficient working knowledge of WMS and Vista

Desirable Skills/experience required:

Proficient knowledge of MPS warehouse processes as it relates to Receiving, Inventory Control and Shipping.

Consistently maintains professional rapport and confidentiality in communicating with other departments as required by procedures.

Demonstrates an understanding of HR duties to accurately track and record LOA’s, PTO time, early outs and special requests made by team members.

Key relationships:

• This role will work directly with Warehouse Operations and Traffic to ensure timely processing of trucks and inventories that will be critical to fill rates and customer satisfaction.• This role will also be a primary liaison for Macmillan Learning and channel partners to ensure issues and concerns regarding inventory are addressed timely.

Capabilities:

Technical capability

Relationship building / teamwork

Managing complexity

Problem solving

Strategy and planning

People management

Leadership

Supervisory responsibilities:

5-10 people

Manages employee schedules and timesheets

Coaching and counseling

Training and evaluating

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Individual needs to have a strong aptitude for mathematical processes, as well as the ability to think problems through. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.Individual must be well organized and attention to detail is critical.

Language Skills: Ability to; read and interpret documents such as inventory movement requests and physical count sheets, write routine reports and correspondences, and to speak effectively before groups of customers, management, or employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to; add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals, compute rate, ratio and percent and to prepare and interpret graphs.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to; solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables, interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Other skills and abilities: Computer skills to include Microsoft Word, Excel, and WMS.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, or hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, or reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to temperature changes, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender Identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of MPS.

Qualifications

Education

Required

High School or better

Experience

Required

1-2 year: High school diploma or equivalent; and one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.