Job Title: Inventory & Procurement Specialist
Why DSLRpros?
At DSLRPros, you work with emerging tech products that allow organizations to work safer, smarter, and faster. From disrupting how we inspect power grids to finding missing persons in a fraction of the time, the use cases for drones in industry and public safety are growing every day. DSLRPros is at the forefront of it all!
We are looking for hungry individuals to help us determine the best e-commerce, digital marketing, lead generation, product distribution, and after-sales support practices to ensure the success of our customers, whether they are rural fire departments or multinational Fortune 100 enterprises.
Join us in helping the world save money, time, and lives.
About the Role:
We are looking for a hardworking, organized Inventory Specialist with experience in e-commerce and consumer electronics, to help our warehouse run smoothly and increase our return on investment in inventory.
What You'll Do:
- Work directly with our suppliers placing orders, forecasting, negotiating and returning defective products.
- Own our gross margins. Always be striving to increase our gross margins. Protect us from holding inventory at low gross margins.
- Continually minimize inbound shipping expenses.
- Ensure our shipping queue is always cleared out on time, working with fulfillment team to clear bottlenecks, eliminating backorder situations, and utilizing dropshippers.
- Own all orders where customers pay for expedited shipping. Ensure these orders arrive on time at minimal cost. Ensure standard processes such as fraud-checks and export controls are adhered to in these circumstances.
- Ensure compliance with hazardous materials shipping while minimizing cost and red tape.
- Work hand-in-hand with our Product and Sales teams to optimize bundles, ensuring they are always in stock at good margins.
- Oversee cycle counts and ensure inventory figures are accurate in our system.
- Review and own aggressive liquidation of all overstocked items.
- Secure back-end rebates from hitting our purchasing quotas and/or other programs.
What You’ll Bring:
- 2+ years of experience in a procurement role, with additional experience in warehousing, fulfillment and/or e-commerce.
- Knowledge of drones is a huge plus.
- Able to communicate articulately and professionally with important business partners.
- A major team player who has no problem wearing many hats and jumping into tasks that are not necessarily part of their job description.
- An “entrepreneurial mindset”, willing to push through and find creative solutions to difficult problems.
- Always looking for productive ways to fill downtime and to improve processes.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $22.00 - $27.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Relocation assistance
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Experience:
- Inventory control: 2 years (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Chatsworth, CA 91311 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Chatsworth, CA 91311: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person