Director of Retail Inventory & Compliance

Dacut•West Bloomfield, MI

About The Position

The Director of Retail Inventory & Compliance owns the accuracy, compliance, movement, and financial performance of all inventory across all retail locations. This mission-critical leadership role ensures 100% alignment between Physical Inventory, METRC, and Dutchie while maintaining full CRA compliance every day. You will protect: 🏛️ Licenses 💰 Margins & Cash 🛍️ Customer Experience

Requirements

5+ years in inventory, retail operations, or supply chain leadership
5+ years in high-volume retail
Proven experience managing multi-million dollar retail inventory
Direct, hands-on experience with METRC and Michigan CRA retail compliance
Experience building SOPs, audit programs, and inventory control systems
Extremely detail-oriented
Process-driven
Systems thinker
Zero tolerance for sloppy inventory
Calm under audit pressure
Strong leader and trainer
Data-driven operator

Nice To Haves

Dutchie POS experience
Cannabis retail operations experience
Multi-store leadership experience

Responsibilities

Retail Inventory Ownership
Own all inventory across all retail locations.
Manage multi-million dollar retail inventory portfolios in a high-volume, multi-store environment.
Ensure real-time accuracy between Physical Inventory, METRC, and Dutchie POS.
Build and enforce standardized retail inventory control systems.
Daily, Weekly & Monthly Inventory Discipline
Design and enforce a company-wide daily cycle count program.
Execute daily cycle counts, weekly audits, monthly reconciliations, and quarterly/annual audits.
Audit sales floor, backstock/vault, quarantine/hold, returns, destructions, transfers, and METRC packages.
Investigate and resolve all discrepancies immediately.
Implement root-cause analysis and corrective action systems.
Compliance & Risk Management (CRA / METRC)
Own 100% CRA and METRC compliance across all retail locations.
Ensure continuous audit readiness for CRA inspections, state audits, and internal audits.
Build SOPs that make compliance automatic and non-negotiable .
Eliminate METRC drift, process gaps, and human-error dependency.
Retail Team Leadership
Lead and manage inventory teams at each retail location.
Build a standardized training, certification, and accountability system.
Ensure every store follows the same inventory playbook.
Create a culture of precision, discipline, and ownership .
Merchandising, Stock Levels & Optimization
Partner with Retail Ops and Merchandising to optimize stock levels, improve turns, reduce aging inventory, and improve in-stock rates.
Ensure stores are never overstocked, never out of stock, and never sitting on dead product.
Shrink, Loss Prevention & Financial Impact
Own shrink performance across retail.
Build shrink dashboards, store-level accountability systems, and investigation frameworks.
Drive improvement in margin, inventory efficiency, and cash utilization.
Systems, SOPs & Process Architecture
Design, document, and deploy retail inventory SOPs for receiving, transfers, storage, cycle counting, returns, destructions, adjustments, and recalls.
Drive process discipline and automation across all stores.