Inventory Team Lead

**Description**:
**The Role**

Picture this: you're working for one of the fastest-growing eCommerce businesses in the world. Your core product is manufactured in-house. It's highly configurable, allowing customers to select from over twenty different material variations. Oh - and this level of customization is offered across over 200 different electronic devices.

All of these SKUs need to be picked in various combinations by the Order Experience Team, each of whom have the utmost faith that the orders they're picking are properly stocked. Who do they have faith in? The Inventory Team. Who leads that team? Not you. At least, not yet. Let's see if we can change that.

Optimization is why you get out of bed in the morning - in fact, you've found the optimal way to get out of bed. Whether you're analysing several months of inventory data, coaching your team on effective techniques, allocating procurement time, or implementing technology driven solutions - you're the glue holding the ship together and the propulsive wind in its sails. You're also a key contributor to our brand new ERP solution. We couldn't figure out how to tie that back to sailing, but it's a pretty important responsibility.

Our question is: if you were in our shoes, would you hire yourself?

**The Environment**

At dbrand, expect a clean, modern, well-lit warehouse with desks, chairs, and countless rows of inventory bins. The organisation of those bins is immaculate. After all, it needs to be - the less time we waste hunting for products, the more time we spend ensuring that the dbrand purchasing experience is second to none for our legion of adoring cult-like customers.

We work in an environment where technology drives everything that we do. It also favours and rewards those with unparalleled foresight and organisational skills. That goes double for our prospective Inventory Team Lead, who's able to immerse themselves in the finer details without losing sight of the bigger picture.

At dbrand, you can take pride in knowing that every single piece of product is on hand and in the right place. Why? Because your team put it there.

Before you can get the opportunity to lead our dynamic team and further develop our inventory process to continue driving best-in-class quality products and distinctive customer experiences, you'll need to prove yourself. Let’s see if you’ve got what it takes

**The Characteristics**:

- **Agile**: You’re nimble. You’re adaptable. You thrive in an environment where priorities can change in an instant.
- **Analytical**:Your decisions are driven by only one thing: data. You continue to master all the tools necessary to surface insights.
- **Collaborative**: You enjoy purposeful meetings. You value the contributions and perspectives of your subordinates as much as those of your CEO.
- **Curious**: You’re eager to learn new concepts and master new skills. There’s no tool that’s useless in your arsenal.
- **Demanding**: You expect the performance of your team to be nothing short of flawless.
- **Disciplined**: You never allow the details to slip, understanding that every bit of minutiae forms the bigger picture.
- **Enthusiastic**: You exhibit a contagious passion for organization and accuracy.
- **Innovative**: You develop new approaches to complex problems.
- **Perfectionist**: You persist until the smallest detail has been optimized. Knows nothing less than 100%.
- **Persistent**: You’ve never failed. You’ve only experienced speed bumps on your path to success.
- **Reliable**: You live up to both verbal and written agreements. You can be trusted to work effectively, without oversight.

**The Responsibilities and Qualifications**:
In order to make a positive impact as part of our team, your focus in this role will be to:

- Coordinate daily departmental activities, such as day-to-day tasks, meetings, ongoing coaching, and performance improvement.
- Exhibit mastery of all Inventory functions and tasks (including receiving shipments; inventory stock putaway and cycle counts; manage accurate inventory levels and data integrity in our WMS; forecasting products and staffing needs; resolving stock shortages and other operational product challenges; ClickUp; data management and reporting), taking ownership of departmental execution, and setting the right example for the rest of the team.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain Analyst and Supply Chain Manager to develop warehouse and inventory management plans to support both material and finished goods requirements.
- Lead inventory-related projects and initiatives from conception to execution.
- Communicate and coordinate with other departments to ensure the timely receipt and delivery of products.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for resolving priority issues and escalations, supporting Inventory team members to determine and execute resolution.
- Monitor and analyze inventory levels and demand patterns to establish inventory targets and ordering parame