Inventory Specialist

About Bells Of Steel Inc.

At Bells of Steel, our mission is to make fitness and strength training approachable, affordable, and fun. We design and manufacture high-quality strength and exercise equipment for home gym owners and fitness professionals, helping people of all experience levels achieve their goals.

At Bells of Steel, our mission is to make fitness and strength training approachable, affordable, and fun. We design and manufacture high-quality strength and exercise equipment for home gym owners and fitness professionals, helping people of all experience levels achieve their goals. We’re not your typical fitness equipment brand. We’re down-to-earth, a little cheeky, and focused on making fitness more rewarding and less intimidating.

If you enjoy a fast-paced, no-BS environment and want to help shape the future of strength training, you’ll fit right in.

We challenge the status quo, learn quickly, and continuously improve. We embrace change, seek better ways of working, and take initiative to drive results.

Everything we do is focused on helping our customers succeed. We lead with empathy, build trust through action, and create value for both external and internal customers.

We operate with honesty, transparency, trust, and respect. We collaborate openly, take shared ownership of outcomes, and succeed as a team.

Are you good with numbers? Do your friends make fun of you for being really into using Excel? Are you detail-oriented, careful, good at reconciling multiple incomplete sources of data and dealing with lots of uncertainty? If so, then you’d better keep reading about this job opportunity. We’re a Calgary-based e-commerce company in the fitness equipment business, selling fitness equipment across Canada and the USA, and looking to continue to expand.

We have grown rapidly in the last few years, and are looking to expand our team with great people. We are looking for a highly motivated self-starter to work closely with our Warehouse Manager and supply chain team to manage our growing inventory. This role will start out being majority inventory focused, and likely adjust in the future to equal time spent on these duties, and assisting with regular warehouse duties.

• Great working environment with little to no supervision; you have the autonomy to operate as you see fit
• Positive work culture that values employees and respects their personal time (our last employee survey had 85% positive responses)
• Health spending account
• Every other Friday off (paid), 3 weeks of vacation and paid sick days
• $1000 towards Bells of Steel equipment

• Complete daily cycle counts and inventory investigations/reconciliations
• Managing inventory between our warehouse and 3PLs
• Managing inventory reserve for mispicks, lost items, shrinkage
• Helping out in the warehouse, picking/packing as needed
• Helping with any other tasks required in the warehouse
• Managing our order system and making sure old orders are dealt with
• Measuring KPIs: warehouse throughput, mispicks/defects, shrinkage, costs, average order age
• Data visualization: creating dashboards to make KPIs readily accessible and actionable
• Warehouse capacity forecasting & planning: what is our current throughput, what do we need for our future throughout, how can we achieve this as we scale up
• Work with inventory forecasting role to understand how different containers of products will be converted to orders and how that will affect warehouse processing capacity
• Warehouse de-bottlenecking: determine bottlenecks to throughput and work with the Warehouse Manager to fix them
• Warehouse continuous improvement: work with warehouse manager to find ways to improve key metrics of warehouse, such as reducing mis-picks and increasing efficiency

• Strong experience with Excel/spreadsheets
• Good with numbers
• Meticulous & detail-oriented
• Good at reconciling multiple data sources and dealing with poor quality data
• At least 1 year of inventory management experience
• Tech-savvy, with a willingness to work with AI tools like Claude
• Forklift license (asset)

This role is based in our Calgary location, where the core hours are Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 4:30pm

52,000 - 55,000 CAD per year(Calgary)