Inventory Management & Logistics Lead

Inventory Management & Logistics Lead

W2 Contract

Onsite, Hillsboro, Oregon

$50/hr + Benefits, Paid Holidays, PTO

Our client is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Inventory Management & Logistics Lead to support operations across three on-premise data centers. This role is critical to ensuring accurate, secure, and highly visible inventory operations that enable our data centers and labs to operate at world-class scale and reliability.

You will be responsible for end-to-end inventory assurance, logistics execution, process optimization, and proactive risk management within a complex, high-security environment. The scale is significant, the environment is fast-paced, and the expectations are high. This role directly supports our client's engineers and global users by ensuring the right assets are available at the right time, with uncompromising accuracy and accountability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize inventory and secure storage operations across three data center locations.
• Establish and maintain inventory processes, policies, and standard operating procedures aligned with our client and data center best practices.
• Drive inventory visibility, governance, and controls; proactively identify, flag, and mitigate operational and compliance risks.
• Provide day-to-day direction to inventory specialists, setting priorities, delegating work, and ensuring accountability across inventory and logistics operations.
• Partner with reconciliation and operations teams to investigate and resolve discrepancies between inventory systems and physical stock.
• Lead regular cycle counts, audits, and inventory adjustments to continuously improve accuracy and data integrity.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Planning, Procurement, Logistics, Finance, and Data Center Operations stakeholders.
• Support tooling implementation, continuous improvement initiatives, and operational scaling as data center capacity grows.

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of experience managing inventory and storage operations, preferably within data centers, labs, or other highly controlled environments.
• Must know what types of materials are needed to support a growing data center infrastructure, east/west and north/south traffic.
• Strong working knowledge of inventory management, logistics, and supply chain processes at scale.
• Demonstrated experience implementing new tools, workflows, policies, and procedures in secure, high-compliance environments.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise systems such as SAP, JIRA, Service Now, and database or inventory management tools preferred.
• Proven ability to operate independently, manage ambiguity, and drive results in fast-moving, mission-critical environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Must be comfortable with transporting oneself to and from all 3 data centers (within few miles of each other).

TCWGlobal is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious belief, or sexual orientation.