Inventory Control Manager

The Inventory Control Manager is responsible for leading all inventory accuracy, compliance, and control processes within a 1.8 million square foot high-volume distribution center. This role ensures inventory integrity across all departments including Receiving, Putaway, Picking, VAS, Returns, and Shipping.

The Inventory Control Manager develops and executes strategies that drive inventory accuracy, reduce shrink, strengthen internal controls, and ensure compliance with company policies and audit standards. This role leads a team of inventory professionals and partners cross-functionally with Operations, Safety, Security, Finance, and IT to maintain operational excellence.

Developing and empowering a diverse team to meet and exceed operational goals is a key responsibility of this role. This role also leads proactively in a fast-paced environment and is essential in driving efficiency, maintaining safety protocols, and fostering a culture of collaboration, trust, teamwork, and continuous improvement to drive customer satisfaction.

At ULAC, we are looking for people who share our vision of fostering a collaborative culture of continuous improvement. All leadership roles at ULAC are responsible for developing, empowering, and growing our people to be and deliver their best. Leadership behaviors that model ULAC’s mission and values of Unity, Loyalty, Achievement, and Charity include:

• Lead Proactively: Anticipate and solve problems with foresight, reflection, and curiosity. Inspire, reinforce, and motivate team members to be solution-oriented and strive for performance excellence. Identify and drive creative solutions.
• Provide Positive & Frequent Performance Feedback: Maximize performance and motivation by acknowledging and reinforcing good performance, identifying opportunities for growth, and supporting continuous development.
• Initiate Structure: Establish, communicate, and achieve ambitious and specific team goals. Consistently plan and build structured processes that reinforce company objectives.
• Achieve Objectives: Develop, initiate, and enhance plans that enable the execution of work. Provide consistent guidance, follow-up, feedback, support, and encouragement to team members to overcome barriers to success. Understand, use, and monitor all relevant reporting system metrics to make informed decisions that impact our people, processes, and systems.
• Foster Positive Culture: Perpetuate positive change and continuous improvement in processes and culture by fostering an optimistic, trusting, innovative, and open work environment.
• Communicate Effectively
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  Encourage effective dialogue, problem-solving, and conflict resolution by actively listening to, seeking to understand, and fostering collaboration with peers, leadership, and direct reports.
• Motivate and Inspire: Cultivate and empower high-performing teams by modeling company values, demonstrating respect, and providing constructive feedback. Serve as a visionary to encourage individuals and teams to reach their greatest potential.
• Train and Develop Others: Fulfill employee training and development needs by serving as a coach, mentor, and facilitator of their knowledge transfer, skill development, and ability to achieve high performance.

• Direct Daily Operations
• Manage and guide Inventory Control Operators, Specialists, and Replenishment Specialists, setting clear performance goals and providing regular feedback.
• Plan, organize, and delegate daily assignments, ensuring tasks align with financial goals and are completed efficiently.
• Oversee and coordinate daily cycle counts, conduct physical audits, and maintain inventory records for accuracy and compliance.
• Track inventory adjustments, analyze and research discrepancies, and address root causes, using cycle count reports to inform decision-making.
• Communication and
  
  Collaboration:
  
  
• Act as a liaison between inventory control and other departments to align inventory capabilities and support operational goals.
• Communicate effectively with team members and cross‑functional partners, ensuring timely resolution of inventory issues and adherence to policies.
• Collaborat…