About Us:

WHSmith North America is North America’s premier award-winning travel retailer in the airport marketplace. For over 65 years, WHSNA has provided clients with a portfolio of attractive, successful brands! We currently operate more than 300 stores across the United States and Canada, and we are always looking for the best in talent.

Marshall Retail Group is part of the WHSmith Group of companies which has a strong track record of meeting high sustainability standards. This role is key to helping us grow our reputation in this area. Our parent group, WHSmith has recently launched a new Sustainability Strategy - Our Journey to a Better Business - across the three themes of Planet, People and Communities.

Job Summary: The primary responsibility of the Inventory Control Manager is to manage the inventory including overseeing cycle counts, reporting of all inventory including excess and obsolete inventory, and coordination of inventory related month-end activities.

• Coordinate the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of period end close activities for inventory and related inventory reserves, including journal entries, account reconciliations and roll-forwards in accordance with reporting deadlines.
• Manage end-to-end inventory processes and provide analysis of company performance by collecting, interpreting, and presenting key reports to management.
• Oversees company cycle count program.
• Lead efforts to report, manage & dispose of excess & obsolete inventory.
• Collaborate with FP&A, Accounts Payable, Production, Operations, and Logistics departments to ensure accurate recording of inventory and related expenses.
• Protect integrity of inventory by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls.
• Monitor inventory accounting and related system reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Assist with the financial audits and provide recommendations for procedural improvements to ensure accounting procedures and reporting conform to generally accepted accounting principles.
• Provide supervision and guidance to assigned staff with day-to-day operations, complex and technical inventory accounting tasks and issues, as well as personal and professional growth.
• Assist in establishing departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures.
• Assess workloads and provide recommendations to maximize efficiencies between your staff.
• Perform other ad hoc duties as requested.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 5-10 years of inventory control experience.
• Possess strong PC skills such as Excel, Word, Access and PowerPoint.
• Working knowledge of mainframe financial systems (Great Plains plus).
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with other Team Members of different backgrounds and levels of experience with a focus to drive results.