Inventory & Procurement Specialist

Company Overview

We make fish FUN! Providing crave-worthy, reimagined seafood experiences with every bite, Honey Smoked Fish Co. is an entrepreneurial, rapidly growing manufacturer of ready-to-eat smoked salmon products. Once you try it, you will understand the meaning of crave-worthy. Driven by our adherence to high quality, fresh ingredients, and our proprietary smoking process, we make the best tasting hot smoked salmon on the market that is a healthy, convenient protein, and can be used as an ingredient in almost any meal or occasion.

We proudly serve the nation’s largest retailers including Costco, Sam’s Club, Kroger, H-E-B, Walmart, and Target, among many other retailers and distribution channels.

It may sound silly, but we collectively believe our team’s adherence to core values is the key to long term success.

• Commitment – we give 100% of our effort, 100% of the time.
• Continuous Innovation & Growth – inherent drive to succeed, adapt, and innovate individually and as a team.
• Excellence – we’re committed to providing crave-worthy quality products our customers expect, every time.
• Teamwork – we ask questions like “how can I help?” and are willing to work across departments.
• Doing The Right Thing – we act in the best interests of our customers, employees, and business partners at all times.

A newly created Inventory & Procurement Specialist position owns inventory accuracy, visibility, and ensures availability across multiple physical sites for Honey Smoked Fish. The role supports purchasing-related activities, including issuing day-to-day purchase orders, monitoring inventory levels and counts, working with production to ensure availability, and hunting for cost savings opportunities. The position requires a high degree of professionalism, outstanding communication skills (both written and oral with internal / external parties), strong analytical ability, high attention to detail, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

• Manage raw materials, packaging, and finished good inventory levels at local facilities to support order fulfillment and production planning.
• Manage finished good inventory levels and recommendations for reordering at several third party warehouse locations.
• Monitor inventory levels and recommend re-ordering points for retailer customer promotions at where data is available /promotions upcoming.
• Assist the Procurement Manager in MRP planning activities including analyzing demand forecasts vs. production plans to set optimal inventory targets by SKU.
• Assist with inventory reconciliation and cycle counts on a monthly basis.
• Help identify slow-moving, excess, and at-risk inventory.
• Originates and sends POs from the ERP system for inventory raw materials.
• Assist with purchasing and procurement activities, including tracking purchase orders and following up with vendors.
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve inventory accuracy, inventory turns, and supply chain efficiency.
• Help track yields, shrink, and waste by process step; surface improvement opportunities.
• Frequent communication with the operations team regarding inventory availability, shortages, and discrepancies.
• Serve as backup for customer service related activities including order entry (both manual and EDI) into our ERP system.
• Confirm POs from various customer sources including phone orders, email orders, fax orders, and EDI transactions.

• Minimum 1-2 years of related inventory management experience, preferred.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Excellent internal/external customer service skills.
• Desire to help to automate, streamline and document processes.
• Ability to problem solve and offer solutions to various internal/external stakeholders.
• Team player with appetite for contributing to the growth of the company.
• Ability to work independently, accepting ownership for assigned responsibilities.

• The role is in-office at our Denver, CO headquarters facility.
• Benefits include flexible time off, majority (75%) company funded health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, and a 401(k) with an employer defined match up to 4%.