Retail Inventory Control Manager

Albertsons Companies•Kirkland, WA

5h•$28•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for managing inventory control within a retail setting, ensuring accuracy, preventing loss, and maintaining organized storage and receiving areas. The position involves direct interaction with deliveries, vendors, and internal systems to manage product flow and costs. It also requires adherence to company policies and safety standards.

Requirements

Ability to be friendly, courteous, tactful, and maintain composure in dealing with customers, co-workers, and vendors.
Requires good interpersonal, organizational, and verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to be a team player.
Ability to comprehend and follow written and oral instructions.
Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks, and maneuvers objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs., within the range of floor level to overhead.
Ability to push and pull fully loaded hand trucks, six-wheel carts, and pallet jacks.
Ability to operate related equipment such as power lifts, balers, compactors, cutters, pricing guns, and computer equipment.
Ability to operate a 10-key and type on a keyboard.
Ability to stand for long periods of time, walk and move rapidly, bend, stoop, twist, and turn frequently.
May climb ladders.
Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary.
Mental alertness is required to ensure safe, accurate completion of work activities and to do repetitive work accurately.
Requires knowledge of basic mathematics.
Requires a good understanding of Company policies and procedures regarding receiving, ordering, stocking, merchandising, pricing, inventory control, and product warehousing/storage.
Requires product knowledge including seasonality and perishability.
Requires knowledge of product movement and factors impacting gross margins.
Ability to work early mornings, weekends, and holidays.
Regular attendance is required.

Responsibilities

Champions Company and Division customer service programs to meet or exceed Division customer service goals and promotes Albertson’s philosophy of personalized service.
Receives all deliveries and logs them into the computer, breaking down loads from DSD suppliers and transporting products from receiving area to storage, freezer, cooler or sales area.
Ensures cost, quality, and inventory controls by verifying orders against invoices, auditing product contents, and using the electronic receiving system to verify costs.
Reconciles vendor invoices to costs on the computer system, inputs differences by item into the system, balances all receiving, and transmits information to the general office for payment.
Maintains invoices and reports in the established filing system according to the record retention schedule.
Reviews and accepts only proper and correct orders submitted by outside sales representatives.
Daily reviews emails to review communication from the DSD Coordinator and retrieves vendor invoices.
Prevents shrink, damage, and spoilage of product, repairing and pricing damaged product if saleable, and discarding or returning damaged product to the appropriate vendor as required.
Responsible for the security, sanitation, and organization of the receiving, storage, and loading dock areas.
Performs training duties.
Operates related equipment such as hand trucks, six-wheel carts, power lifts, pallet jacks, balers, compactors, cutters, pricing guns, and computer equipment such as hand held units and stationary CRT units.
May occasionally perform duties such as ordering, stocking, stacking, facing, pricing, marking, and rotating of dairy and frozen food items, in the absence of the dairy or frozen food clerks.
Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately, and with honesty and integrity.
Maintains good working relationships with vendors and delivering personnel.
Performs other necessary and required duties.
Requires the ability to judge and react to business activity.
Complies with all Company policies including attendance, grooming standards, and dress codes.
May utilize cleaning supplies, chemicals, and safety cutters.