Logistics Inventory Manager

It's more than a job

As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Whether you’re leading a team, engineering processes, or driving projects, your work ensures that our customers’ products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision. From everyday essentials to seasonal items, what we do in Contract Logistics impacts businesses and communities around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes far beyond the warehouse—it helps shape the flow of global trade.

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You will lead inventory control and warehouse systems management for the operation, serving as the primary subject matter expert for the Warehouse Management System (WMS). This role is responsible for ensuring system integrity, inventory accuracy, transaction compliance, process optimization, and effective utilization of WMS functionality across all operational areas.

Working closely with operations, quality, customer service, finance, customer stakeholders, and IT partners, you will drive continuous improvement through system configuration, process standardization, data analysis, root-cause investigations, and technology-enabled solutions. The position plays a critical role in ensuring physical inventory and system records remain aligned while maximizing system capabilities to improve operational performance, inventory accuracy, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

The ideal candidate is a highly analytical and technically skilled leader with extensive WMS expertise, strong inventory control experience, and a deep understanding of warehouse operations. This individual should be capable of identifying opportunities within the WMS, leading system enhancements, troubleshooting complex transactional issues, supporting customer implementations, and serving as the site's primary resource for inventory and warehouse systems functionality

How you create impact

• Serve as the site's primary Warehouse Management System (WMS) expert, ensuring optimal system configuration, transaction integrity, and utilization of available functionality across all warehouse operations.

• Lead, coach, and develop the inventory control team, establishing clear expectations for safety, inventory accuracy, productivity, and customer service.

• Manage cycle count programs, physical inventories, reconciliations, product holds, inventory adjustments, and audit readiness to ensure compliance with customer and company requirements.

• Monitor and analyze key inventory metrics including inventory accuracy, location accuracy, count compliance, damages, aging inventory, shrinkage, and overall warehouse performance.

• Lead root cause investigations involving inventory variances, transaction failures, system defects, integration issues, and process breakdowns; develop and implement sustainable corrective actions.

• Partner with operations and customers to identify opportunities to leverage system functionality, automation, reporting, and process improvement that enhance inventory integrity and operational efficiency.

• Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), process validation, system enhancements, customer implementations, and WMS-related continuous improvement initiatives.

• Develop and maintain SOPs, work instructions, training materials, and transaction standards to ensure consistent system utilization across all departments.

• Build and maintain operational dashboards, reporting tools, and data analytics that provide visibility into inventory performance, transaction compliance, and process effectiveness.

• Lead labor planning, scheduling, workload prioritization, continuous improvement initiatives, and ensure compliance with all safety, quality, security, financial, and operational standards.

What we would like you to bring

• Bachelor’s degree in logistics, supply chain, business, operations, or a related field preferred; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.

• 5+ years of experience in inventory control, warehouse operations, distribution, manufacturing, logistics, or third-party logistics (3PL) environments.

• 3+ years of experience serving as Super User, Systems Administrator, Inventory Manager, WMS Analyst, Inventory Systems Manager, or a similar role with significant responsibility for WMS management.

• Advanced knowledge of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), including configuration, inventory transactions, troubleshooting, workflow design, inventory controls, system testing, and user support. Experience with Blue Yonder is a plus.

• Strong knowledge of cycle counting, physical inventories, reconciliations, inventory adjustments, root cause analysis, warehouse controls, and inventory accuracy management.

• Experience using Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), ERP systems, RF technology, inventory reporting tools, and Microsoft Office applications, including advanced Excel skills.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex system and inventory issues, identify process gaps, implement corrective actions, and drive operational improvements through technology.

• Strong leadership, project management, communication, customer-facing, and problem-solving skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across operations, IT, and customer organizations.

What's in it for you

At Kuehne+Nagel, we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. Base wage is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors, including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI-(On-Site)

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used to support portions of the recruitment process, such as reviewing application materials or assisting with scheduling. These tools analyze information to help inform decision-making; however, all hiring decisions are made by human reviewers.

This position relates to an available role and not a future talent pool.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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