Inventory Control Manager

Our mission is clear: to be North America’s premier packaging solutions provider, simplifying client operations with innovative, technology-driven solutions. We are fueled by the values instilled by Nick Novy, aiming to not just meet but exceed industry benchmarks. Our purpose is to empower our customers with smarter business decisions through our expertise.

Korpack stands for more than just speed. Our F.A.S.T methodology – Fearless, Adaptable, Simplistic, and Technology-driven – is a testament to our approach toward complex challenges. We’re not afraid to dive deep and tackle the toughest packaging puzzles with agility and clarity, all while harnessing the power of technology.

In the heart of Korpack, there’s a culture that thrives on agility, innovation, and relentless pursuit of excellence. We’re not your typical packaging company. Our start-up spirit combined with our industry experience makes us uniquely dynamic. We embrace challenges, turning them into opportunities to innovate and grow. Our team, akin to a close-knit family, is dedicated to achieving success for our clients.

We believe in building relationships based on trust, integrity, and mutual respect.

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 and a 65,000 sq ft warehouse in Carol Stream, 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.

The Inventory Control Manager owns the accuracy, visibility and flow of all inventory across Korpack's Bloomingdale and Carol Stream sites. 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.

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.
• Deliv…