Inventory & Purchasing Manager

Triumph • San Francisco, CA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

We're looking for an Inventory & Purchasing Manager to own end-to-end inventory operations for our growing collectibles business. In this role, you’ll lead our purchasing team, manage vendor relationships, optimize inventory levels, and build scalable processes that keep product flowing smoothly as we grow. You’ll work closely with operations, product, and finance partners to ensure we have the right inventory, at the right time, at the right cost—while maintaining a high bar for organization, data quality, and operational excellence. This role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and we’re looking for someone to be onsite 5 days a week. We require the ability to travel to our HQ in San Francisco as well as our warehouse outside of the city.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in inventory management, purchasing, operations, or supply chain at a high-growth company or e-commerce / physical goods business.
• Experience leading or directly managing a small team, with a track record of coaching, feedback, and clear goal-setting.
• Strong familiarity with the collectibles market (trading cards, PSA grading, sports memorabilia, or similar) and enthusiasm for the category.
• Proven ability to design and improve processes in fast-paced, high-volume environments.
• Proficiency with inventory or ERP systems (ideally Zoho) and strong skills in Excel/Google Sheets for analysis and reporting.
• Detail-oriented and highly organized with a bias toward ownership and follow-through.
• Comfortable working on-site and between multiple locations in the Bay Area in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Nice To Haves

• Bonus if you've scaled an operations or supply chain function.
• Bonus if you've worked with Card Ladder or similar pricing/reference tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the purchasing team while overseeing daily inventory operations across all collectibles categories.
• Build and manage key vendor relationships, negotiate pricing and terms, and maintain an approved vendor network.
• Design and maintain scalable purchasing and inventory workflows with clear documentation for the team.
• Ensure clean, accurate inventory data in our database and strong standards for data quality.
• Monitor inventory health with reports and dashboards to give leadership clear visibility.
• Use data to recommend what to buy, when to buy it, and how much to commit in partnership with finance.

Benefits

• High Growth : Contribute to a fast-growing Operations team working to fuel one of the most rapidly growing TCG apps.
• High Agency : Growing, high-impact Operations team that is scaling rapidly with significant opportunity for leadership and growth.
• High Energy : Passionate team who are proud of our work and velocity (16x year over year growth). Our team gathers 5 days a week at Triumph’s headquarters at Levi’s Plaza, San Francisco, CA.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed