Senior Inventory Coordinator – Raw Materials & Network Storage

About the role

Tropicana Brands Group is a $3B startup formed in 2022 as a joint venture between PAI Partners and PepsiCo, managing iconic brands like Tropicana, Naked, KeVita, Izze, Copella, and Punica. The Supply Chain function is critical to enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.

As the Senior Inventory Coordinator – Raw Materials & Network Storage, you will serve as the primary inventory coordinator between Walnut operations, third-party warehouse operators, manufacturing sites, Planning, Procurement, Transportation, Quality, and Finance teams. This role ensures accurate inventory records, material availability, and inventory integrity across multiple systems and storage providers.

Responsibilities

• Manage inventory accuracy across Walnut Distribution Center and multiple third-party warehouse and outside storage locations.
• Perform inventory reconciliation between SAP, warehouse management systems (WMS), vendor inventory portals, and warehouse inventory reports.
• Investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies, adjustments, shortages, overages, damages, and inventory transaction issues.
• Monitor inventory movements, transfers, receipts, and consumption transactions to ensure accurate inventory records.
• Coordinate inventory transfers between manufacturing plants, suppliers, and warehouse locations.
• Develop and maintain inventory reports, dashboards, scorecards, and KPI reporting.
• Generate weekly, monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc inventory reporting for Operations, Planning, Procurement, Finance, and Leadership teams.
• Analyze inventory trends, storage utilization, inventory turns, and working capital opportunities.
• Utilize advanced Excel tools including Pivot Tables, Power Query, XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, conditional logic, and reporting automation techniques.
• Serve as the primary inventory contact for third-party warehouse providers and outside storage partners.
• Coordinate inventory-related issue resolution with warehouse operators, suppliers, transportation providers, and internal stakeholders.
• Manage inventory reporting and transaction activity through vendor inventory portals and warehouse systems.
• Monitor inventory-related service levels and compliance with operating requirements.
• Collaborate closely with Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Transportation, Quality, Finance, and Operations teams.
• Support production continuity through proactive inventory monitoring and issue resolution.
• Support annual inventory audits, warehouse-to-warehouse (W2W) reconciliations, month-end and year-end inventory validation activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• 3–7 years of experience in inventory management, inventory control, logistics coordination, supply chain operations, warehousing, or related disciplines.
• Experience working with third-party logistics providers (3PLs) and remote warehouse operations.
• Experience supporting inventory operations across multiple warehouse locations preferred.
• Experience supporting inventory audits, cycle count programs, and financial inventory reconciliations.
• Food, beverage, consumer packaged goods (CPG), manufacturing, or distribution experience preferred.
• Proficiency in SAP (ECC and/or S/4HANA), Advanced Microsoft Excel, inventory reconciliation and reporting, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration, Operations Management, Finance, or related field preferred. Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.
• Must be located in Walnut, CA or surrounding area or willing to relocate for the duration of employment.
• Willingness to be onsite daily in Walnut, CA.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) plan, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Company-provided life, short-term disability (STD), and long-term disability (LTD) insurance.
• Optional voluntary life, accident, hospital, and critical illness coverages.

Pay

$50,000 - $70,000 annually.