Inventory Specialist

Located in Rancho Dominguez, CA. Cordelia Lighting is a long established and successful manufacturer and distributor of quality residential and commercial lighting products selling through some of the most blue chip names in big box retailers, home centers, lighting showroom, and E Commerce. See our company website Designers Fountain for more details (www.designersfountain.com ). We are currently seeking an Inventory Specialist.

The departments goal is to maximize the sale and service level of lighting products for various large sales channels through the management of demand forecasts, inventory levels and customer supply chain variables.

Job Function:

• Manages tasks such as: weekly inventory planning and procurement. Analyzes inventory flow, in transit reports, and lumpy demand weekly to achieve healthy level of inventory and fill rate goal. Maintain a smooth inventory flow, contact our oversea office for shipment delay issues
• Resolves any items’ issues and support customer service with any job orders’ request. Contact our oversea office for urgent job orders’ request and act as a liaison between customer service and our oversea office to ensure the job orders are shipped out on time.
• Handle direct import accounts of big box vendors such as Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Walmart.
• Assist sales team in figuring out new product order’s shipping window with our oversea office, and responsible to find out product updates from product development department when there is spec change
• Assist our oversea office in pushing for better product lead time
• Provide assistance to customers as the following: follow up with our oversea office on containerization of Purchase Orders, track shipments.
• Provide assistance to customer’s Direct Import orders as the following: follow up with our oversea office on containerization, customer’s Direct Import shipments, and resolve any shortage claims
• Assist our oversea office in resolving any potential product issues and relay the problem to Sourcing Department for solution
• Assist customer service team with any parts request, transfers, track the receiving of the parts, track the parts receiving and provide debit notes back to Accounting department
• Help Accounting department in resolving price/quantity discrepancies on regular and direct import purchase orders

Job Skills and Requirements

• Sound product knowledge in home goods.
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Have basic working knowledge or experience in the import & export area, such as customs clearance procedure.
• Bilingual Mandarin speaking read and write a MUST.
• Hands-on computer knowledge and skill.
• Proficient in the MS Windows operating system, MS Word and MS Excel, and MS Powerpoint
• Experience with ERP system is a plus
• Ability to recognize and maintain confidentiality of information as appropriate.
• Good verbal and written communication and math skill.

Benefits

• Excellent health benefit plan coverage – medical, dental, vision and life
• 401(k)
• Generous paid time off for illnesses, vacations and holidays.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Import & Export: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: In person