Item Master
Thrive Market
Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA
Posted on Wednesday, August 21, 2024
ABOUT THRIVE MARKET
Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market, we deliver the highest quality healthy, and sustainable products at member-only prices. Every day, we help our 1.4M+ Members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process. We are a profitable, half-billion-dollar revenue business proving that mission-focused companies can succeed. We are also a Certified B Corporation, recently became a Public Benefit Corporation, and are a Climate Neutral Certified company. Join us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come.
THE ROLE
We currently have an opportunity for a highly driven, analytics-focused focused, and collaborative team player in the Inventory Control/Quality Assurance field to join Thrive Market as an hourly Item Master. This position will be responsible for setting up, validating, and closing the loop on all item data within our WMS and facilities. Additional responsibilities will include item/packaging testing, gatekeeping packing attributes, and collaborating with our HQ continuous improvement team on process improvement and packaging projects.
Employment Type: Full-Time Hourly
Commitment: 40 Hours Per Week
Schedule: Monday - Friday, from 7 AM to 3:30 PM
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Perform new item set-up gathering dimensions, weight, case quantities, case dimensions, pallet TI/HI, etc
- Audit SKU substitutions to ensure that they are setup correctly with dims, sku, size, variation etc
- Validate and audit existing item data
- Enter and/or edit the product item master data
- Assist in the analysis of collected data. (Qualtrics/MS) Maintain accuracy of all data entry and updates
- Perform product drop testing/packaging testing, determining necessary prep for individual products
- Partner with IC and IB personnel at multiple sites via Zoom to address dimension and packaging issues
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and maintain data
- Assists the Continuous Improvement team to determine optimal packaging conditions to deliver high quality goods to customers
- Monitor damage rates, provide analysis, and report findings and recommendations for solutions as well as determining when extra packaging may be unnecessary
- Audit packing instructions ensuring proper packaging to reduce damage rates and also ensure we are not over-utilizing packaging
- Seeks out opportunities to improve efficiency involving material handling throughout operations
- Partner with and notify business partners of defects and work to implement corrective action plans
- Affinity for identifying areas of opportunity and process improvements
- Partner with the WMS team on building new reports to identify items at high risk of processing or handling defects
- Willing to perform other duties, as requested
QUALIFICATIONS
- High School Diploma or GED Equivalent
- Preferred, 2-year degree in logistics or inventory management
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as inventory reports, operating procedures to ensure inventory is audited and accurate
- Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and written
- Must be able to safely operate all powered equipment (forklift, electric pallet jacks, manlift)
- Positive attitude, willingness to learn, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.Experience with Microsoft Office, Google Sheets, and Slack
- Able to stand and walk for extended periods of time, frequently reaching with hands and arms, twisting, bending, stooping, squatting, lifting and carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 50 lbs.
- Experience with hand-held scanners (preferred)
- Honest with the highest integrity
- Dedicated to quality and high standards
- Positive, ambitious, energetic, hardworking with a strong work ethic
- A team player with exceptional communication who is well-organized and has an eye for detail
JOB INFORMATION
- Compensation Description - The hourly range for this position is $20.00 Per Hour.
- Rate of pay may increase over time based upon: skill, level of responsibility, additional duties, seniority, quantity or quality of production or other legitimate, business-related factors.
- Total Compensation includes Base Salary, Stock Options, Health & Wellness Benefits, Accrued PTO, and more!
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