Inventory Control Manager

The Inventory Control Manager owns the accuracy, visibility and flow of all inventory at Korpack's Bloomingdale facility. This includes raw packaging materials, customer-owned components, work-in-process for kitting and co-packing runs, and finished goods. The role keeps system counts matching the floor, keeps production lines supplied, and gives customers real-time, trustworthy inventory data. Success means high inventory accuracy, low shrink and write-offs, on-time material availability for every scheduled run, and audit-ready lot traceability.

Korpack is a Chicago-area packaging partner that supplies packaging materials, contract packaging and kitting, machinery and systems integration to consumer packaged goods brands, from startups to national names. Founded in 2015, we operate a 145,000 sq ft SQF-certified, USDA-approved facility in Bloomingdale, IL. Our mission is to disrupt packaging with speed, technology and trust, and our team lives by our DISRUPT values:
Determined, Innovative, Smile, Responsive, Understanding, Proactive and Teamwork.

Key responsibilities

Inventory accuracy and control

• Own inventory accuracy across both facilities; design and run the cycle count program and annual or periodic physical counts.
• Investigate and resolve variances, find root causes, and put corrective actions in place.
• Set and enforce procedures for receiving, put-away, location control, picking, transfers and adjustments.
• Approve and document all inventory adjustments and write-offs.

Customer-owned and production materials

• Manage customer-owned inventory (components, film, cartons, displays, finished goods) with clear ownership and reporting by customer.
• Work with Production Planning and Customer Service so materials are received, staged and available before each kitting and co-packing run.
• Reconcile material usage, yield and scrap against work orders after each run; report overages and shortages to customers.
• Monitor stock levels, reorder points and slow-moving or obsolete stock for Korpack-owned packaging materials.

Systems, data and reporting

• Act as the business owner of inventory data in the WMS/ERP; keep item masters, units of measure and locations clean.
• Support Korpack's real-time customer dashboards and inventory tracking tools; make sure the data behind them is accurate.
• Produce weekly KPIs: inventory accuracy, variance value, shrink, dock-to-stock time and on-hand by customer.
• Deliver month-end inventory reconciliation and valuation support to Finance.

Quality, food safety and compliance

• Maintain lot and date-code traceability that supports SQF certification and USDA facility requirements.
• Manage holds, quarantine, FIFO/FEFO rotation and expired or damaged material.
• Support mock recalls, customer audits and third-party audits.

Leadership

• Hire, train, schedule and coach inventory control staff; train temporary and warehouse associates on inventory procedures.
• Promote safe work practices and a clean, organized warehouse.
• Lead continuous-improvement projects (slotting, labeling, scanning, 5S) that raise accuracy and speed.

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years of inventory control or warehouse operations experience, including 2+ years supervising a team.
• Experience in contract packaging, co-manufacturing, 3PL or distribution, ideally with customer-owned inventory.
• Hands‑on experience with a WMS or ERP system (for example Net Suite, SAP, Fishbowl or similar) and RF/barcode scanning.
• Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups) and comfort working with inventory data.
• Working knowledge of lot control, FIFO/FEFO and traceability in a food, beverage or consumer goods environment.

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, operations, business or a related field.
• APICS/ASCM certification (CPIM or CSCP).
• Experience in an SQF,…