Who We Are
We’re Chomps, the fastest-growing food brand in the U.S. and we’re reimagining snacking. Our meat snacks are made using high-quality proteins, no sugar, and real ingredients – because we believe snacking should be simple, delicious, and convenient. Chomps can be found in over 20,000 stores nationwide with a strong e-commerce presence. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and fuel our community with accessible, real food that doesn’t compromise on taste.
Traits of a Chompian
If you’ve been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.
What You Will Do
We are looking for a dynamic and passionate person to join the team as our Manager, Inventory Control. Your primary responsibility will be to oversee the maintenance and accuracy of inventory records for all raw, pack and finished goods inventory. This includes bill of material set up, necessary transactions to convert materials into finished goods, cycle count verification, physical inventory counts, and data analysis. This role is critical to the maintenance of accurate visibility through our supply chain and financials, and ladders into the KPI of on time and in full to our customers.
Responsibilities
- Core Function:
- Ensures inventory accuracy by coordinating the inventories and goods on hand at each facility to align with our ERP system
- Lead team to reconcile inventory and inventory clearing to achieve EOM close timeline
- Lead process optimization to improve supply chain visibility; supporting new systems, processes and tools
- Lead internal communications across Operations and Cross-functionally to keep all parties informed
- Co-Man Setup and Ongoing Cost Maintenance:
- Share BOM setup with co-manufacturer and validate setup in their system
- Formulate transactional process, provide reporting requirements, and approve reporting formats (Production, Receiving, Shipping, Inventory)
- Validate setup BOM
- Review co-manufacturer cost cards & PO’s for tolling & cost accuracy
- Summarize yield/attainment and production/receiving #s for QBRs
- Audit co-manufacturing tolling account for receiving accuracy
- Co-Manufacturing and Distribution Center Inventory:
- Oversee management of work orders, assemblies, inventory receipts, and inventory adjustments
- Manage daily communications with co-manufacturers and distribution centers regarding reporting, inventory, discrepancies, production attainment, BOM setup, new item setup, temporary changes
- Direct timing & execution plan for month & quarter end inventory at each facility
- Develop and monitor all key functions related to inventory transactions to assure that they are accurate and timely
- Inventory Reconciliation:
- Oversee invoices for accuracy to receipts
- Work cross functionally with Finance to reconcile POs, receipts and invoices
- Facilitate communication between Finance, facilities Finance & Operation teams, providing additional details/documents/product tracking as needed
- Utilizing cost accounting tools and material trackers, alert management of discrepancies for root cause analysis and corrective action
- Collect reports and data to mitigate invoice discrepancies
- Provide inventory dashboard weekly for planning team and escalate any found discrepancies
Who You Are
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or related field
- 3 - 5 years of experience in Inventory Management required
- Prior experience in CPG industry with third party experience preferred
- Proficiency in Excel, ERP or inventory tools, as well as 3PL / fulfillment reporting solutions and EDI platforms
- Familiarity with procurement processes
- Experience analyzing and reporting financial data and deliverables
- Outstanding analytical skills with demonstrated success organizing, analyzing and accurately interpreting large amounts of data
- Outstanding communication (both verbal and written) and relationship management skills
- Ability to prioritize workload to deliver against key metrics and continuously improve customer experience
Position: Manager, Inventory Control
Reports to: Senior Manager, Planning & Inventory
Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time, exempt
Salary Range Opportunity:
- The salary range for this role is $120,000 - $125,000 + 20% annual bonus
Compensation Philosophy & Total Comp:
- Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry
- Individual pay rate decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company
- In addition to base salary, full-time team members receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K 6% match, and monthly reimbursements for wellness and home office.
Other Perks:
- Ability to make an impact: Join a rapidly growing and entrepreneurial-spirited team at a pivotal point to positively impact the food industry.
- Opportunities to grow: Advance within Chomps quickly based on outstanding performance.
- Unlimited PTO and 10 paid holiday days. Hybrid & flexible remote schedule. Chicago office open to those in the area.
- Paid maternity and paternity leave.
- Bi-annual total team in-person activities.
- Company-wide Continual Education budget.
- An abundance of snacks: Enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could (no judgment here).
Our Commitment
Chomps is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of making nutritious food more accessible we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which comes from diversity of all types, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do and the smart thing for our business.
We're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box? Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Chomps.
Important Notice:
It has come to our attention that fraudsters have been posing as Chomps employees or recruiters and contacting job-seeking candidates regarding potential job opportunities. These fraudulent messages sometimes include a request for payment and confidential personal information. Please note that the Chomps recruiting process does not include asking candidates for payments or other confidential financial information.If you are applying for a job, you can confirm the legitimacy of a job posting by viewing current open roles: https://chomps.com/pages/chomps-careers. If you have questions please email us at careers@chomps.com
