Supervisor, Commodity Inventory Controller

Primary Function: The Supervisor is the primary person responsible for achieving all departmental goals including rejection percentage, inventory freshness, timely allocations, minimize dumps/donates, and increase percentage from inventory. The Supervisor is the commodity department’s main contact with both the commodity planners and operations management. The supervisor oversees all department subordinates, including training, as well as day to day functions.

Values: To perform the job successfully, the incumbent’s behavior must be consistent with the PRIDE values expected of all Mastronardi Produce employees: be Passionate; have Respect; be Innovative; be Driven and strive for Excellence.

Primary Responsibilities: Includes the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Achieve departmental Goals for including rejection percentage, inventory freshness, timely allocations, minimize dumps/donates, and increase percentage
• Work with the Operations team to communicate daily Production and Sales Order allocations
• Insure all sales orders are allocated through inventory or production so that customer service objectives are achieved
• Maintain, in conjunction with planner, an inventory plan for the 0-3-day horizon that includes tracking of inbounds, production plans and forecasted sales
• Routinely check product quality in inventory and at receiving
• Coordinate and assist in communicating customers’ expectations with the commodity team, Production, and Shipping
• Maintain regular communication with the Commodity Planners, Production Schedulers, Commodity Inventory Controllers, and Production Managers
• Maintain regular communication with Receiving and Logistics, with specific emphasis on load priorities and product specifications
• Make suggestions to Sales for the disposal/movement of surplus commodities in a timely fashion
• Verify GMP and Organic compliance is maintained in assigned area of responsibility
• Communicate missed quality issues with procurement and quality to get NCs in place
• Liaise between sales and commodity operations to insure customer expectations are satisfied
• Coordinate all sample requests for all commodities
• Coordinate DNS/Blowout/Dump product lists daily for all commodities
• Training new hires for the Commodity Inventory Controller positions
• Be involved in the interview process for the Commodity Inventory Controller position

Education/Background Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Previous experience in produce industry preferred
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Willingness to work independently, with minimal supervision and take ownership of job
• Comfortable making decisions
• Must have strong communication skills
• Detail oriented
• Will need to learn significant Product / Industry knowledge
• Must be high-performance team player and be willing to work in a dynamic, growing, demanding and fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Need to be creative, adaptable and able to accurately handle out-of-the-ordinary issues with a sense of urgency
• Must have ability to effectively follow-up and handle multiple projects with strong personal time-management skills and effectively manage associated stress
• Proficient in basic computer-use skills (i.e. Word, Excel) and will need to learn NAV, JDA
• Must be a self-starter and willing to work flexible hours

Working Conditions:

• Environment includes an expansive refrigerated warehouse, where the temperature averages 50°F
• Background noise (from refrigeration) approaches 70 dcbs
• Position requires sitting, standing, walking and bending on a regular basis.  Limited kneeling, squatting and crawling required
• Must be capable of lifting up to 30 lbs
• Must have manual dexterity to perform computer skills