Job Description
Title: Operations Manager
Scope: (Commander’s Intent)
Manage inventory, procurement, logistics, and fulfillment to enable revenue growth at a small technology based company. This position will require knowledge on how to manage inventory, oversee procurement from overseas contractors, coordinate deliveries of material, and manage fulfillment/warehousing contractors. You will need to be detail oriented, analytical, organized, and flexible.
Activities:
Inventory:
· Coordinate inventory tracking in the US and China as well as in Amazon FBA
· Manage and improve current process for inventory predictive analysis
· Manage Odoo ERP system for procurement, inventory, and fulfillment
· Use spreadsheet based predictive models to create inventory plans
Procurement:
· Manage and build relationships with suppliers
· Track and facilitate procurement of inventory
· Balance inventory plans with cash flow budget to optimize inventory levels (keeping products in stock and not overstocking)
· Participate in sourcing, evaluation and fabrication of new products
Logistics:
· Optimize our import and logistics costs and fees to deliver products from manufacturing facility to customers
· Manage in-house fulfillment and warehousing team
· Organize product packaging and documentation to ensure products shipped to the US will be fulfillment ready
Required Experience:
· 3-5 years experience in logistics or fulfillment
· Expertise with spreadsheet, Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel
· Odoo or other ERP Management Preferred
· Subcontractor management
Preferred Experience:
· E-commerce fulfillment and logistic
· Chinese language
Key Success Characterisitics:
· Organzied and detail oriented
· Comfortable with out of the box thinking for low definition, complex problems
· Motivated by tackling challenges through creative thinking
Compensation:
· Comensurate with experience and expertise – 5-7 year experienced professional - $60-75,000
Benefits include full health, vision, dental and life, work from home options, and generous time off policy