Inventory Specialist Ocala

CONE DISTRIBUTING INC•Ocala, FL

About The Position

The Inventory Specialist supports profitable sales growth by maintaining accurate inventory counts in assigned lower-volume accounts, executing approved chain programs, ensuring proper point-of-sale placement, and supporting display execution. The role helps maintain account standards, improve product visibility, and identify inventory, ordering, display, and program execution opportunities. Recruiting areas include Lake City and Chiefland; the job location is Cone Distributing Inc. Ocala in Ocala, Florida. The position also supports general account standards and safety by maintaining product rotation and code-date standards, checking product condition, reporting account issues, attending assigned meetings and training, maintaining company equipment, and following applicable regulations and safety rules. It requires regular movement throughout retail account locations and lifting packaged products typically weighing 25–30 pounds, with assistance on heavier items as needed.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Good math skills and attention to detail for inventory accuracy.
Basic knowledge of code dates, inventory standards, Team Cone Retail Call Standards, Rotation Standards, and program execution expectations.
Ability to use smartphones, iPads, handheld devices, route accounting software, or similar electronic tools.
Effective internal and external communication skills, including the ability to communicate with store, sales, delivery, and management personnel.
Ability to work in a team environment with sales, delivery, warehouse, and management personnel.
Ability to arrive at work as scheduled and complete assigned account responsibilities.
Ability to work scheduled weekends, holidays, or adjusted schedules based on business needs.
Ability to lift packaged products weighing 25–30 pounds and assist with heavier products as needed.
Frequent reaching, standing, walking, bending, and moving throughout retail account locations.
Ability to pass a drug and background check.
Maintain a safe driving record if operating a personal or company vehicle for business purposes.

Responsibilities

Accurately count and enter account inventories using handheld devices or route accounting software.
Maintain accurate inventory information for assigned accounts and identify potential out-of-stock, overstock, or product-rotation concerns.
Maintain minimum standards for Greater behavior metrics, including Usage, Negative Sales, Whole Case Counts, Prediction Used, Prediction Not Used, and Global Stockout.
Communicate inventory findings and account opportunities to the appropriate account decision maker.
Execute and maintain approved chain programs in assigned accounts according to company, supplier, and account standards.
Place and maintain chain point-of-sale materials in approved locations, ensuring they are clean, current, and compliant with account standards.
Support program display execution by confirming displays follow approved program direction, available space, and account standards.
Complete assigned surveys, execution checks, and documentation through Encompass or other company systems.
Follow up on store-visit execution issues and account action items within assigned responsibilities.
Build and maintain good business relations with account personnel and communicate professionally with internal and external contacts.
Maintain product rotation standards and apply applicable code-date systems.
Check products for saleable condition, report damaged or unsaleable items, swap out out-of-code product, and replace close-to-code product with sufficient time remaining for sale.
Submit reports of missing price tags, out-of-stock conditions, program issues, display concerns, and account opportunities to appropriate personnel as needed.
Attend assigned meetings and training sessions.
Maintain appropriate dress, uniform, and personal appearance according to company policy.
Maintain assigned phones, handheld devices, and other company tools and promptly report equipment issues.
Follow federal, state, and local regulations concerning the sale and handling of malt beverages, and follow safety rules and use safety equipment.
Assist with other appropriate or necessary tasks, including account follow-up, program support, point-of-sale placement, and special execution needs.
Arrive as scheduled and complete assigned account responsibilities, including work on scheduled weekends, holidays, or adjusted schedules based on business needs.
Maintain a safe driving record if operating a personal or company vehicle for business purposes.
Report account, inventory, program, and execution issues to the appropriate manager.