Dispensary Inventory Manager - DCM Inc
Hagerstown, MD
About the Job
DCM, Inc. is a fast-growing, high-quality medical and recreational cannabis manufacturer seeking motivated and accountable individuals to join our team! Our mission is to grow more than the world's best Cannabis. We're growing a better world. One that's more caring, compassionate, understanding, and informed. Every day we learn a bit more about the unlimited potential cannabis holds, and there's nothing we like more than sharing it with you. Because to us, cannabis is much more than a plant; it's our chance to change the world, one person, one patient, one policy at a time.
Inventory Manager
Our Inventory Manager will be responsible for managing and controlling the dispensary's inventory of cannabis products and related supplies. This includes overseeing the ordering, receiving, storing, and tracking of inventory to ensure accurate stock levels. This individual will also monitor product quality, expiration dates, and inventory turnover rates. Additionally, the Inventory Manager will be responsible for implementing inventory management systems, conducting regular audits, and developing strategies to optimize inventory control processes.
Your role in caring for our company:
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
Strategic Collaboration, Operations & Execution
- Oversee shift operations and supervise team members.
- Maintain accurate inventory records, including stock levels, transactions, and product information.
- Monitor inventory levels and reorder products as needed to prevent stockouts or overstocking.
- Collaborate with other departments, such as sales and operations to forecast inventory needs and plan accordingly.
- Investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies in a timely manner.
- Audit inventory levels weekly and report needed products to operations according to ordering SOP.
- Regularly performing METRC and POS audits and verify data for accuracy.
- Coordinate with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of products.
- Implement inventory management best practices to optimize inventory control.
- Optimize storage space utilization and organization to maximize efficiency.
- Ensure store compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Effectively communicate inventory status, challenges, and opportunities to stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Ensure the store remains compliant with security, inventory, and local and state regulations.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of products and strains in the store, as well as industry-wide product knowledge.
- Provide education for employees about different cannabis strains, edibles, concentrates, and consumption mechanisms.
Team Leadership & Performance Analytics
- Foster a culture of professionalism, guiding teams to achieve optimal results.
- Collaborate effectively with the Human Resources Department and appropriate partners to implement and manage the company's policies and procedures.
- Retain and develop top performers by understanding individual's motivations and providing actionable feedback.
- Addresses low performance quickly, compassionately, and in alignment with company policies.
All other duties as necessary.
Qualifications we ask you to have:
- For legal reasons, all employees need to be at least 21 years of age.
- You will be asked to pass a Federal and State criminal history background check.
- We ask that you have a Associate's degree in Business Administration, Sales Management, Supply Chain Management or Logistics (Bachelor's Degree Preferred).
- We ask that you have a minimum of three (3) years of experience that demonstrates growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.
- We ask that you have a minimum of three (3) years of managerial experience.
- We ask that you have a minimum of three (3) years of inventory management experience, with two (2) years of cannabis experience preferred.
- We ask that you have a minimum of two (2) years of METRC experience.
- We ask that you have excellent leadership skills, with steadfast resolve, personal integrity, and business acumen.
Addition skills which will help you excel in your role:
- A passion for the cannabis culture.
- Comprehensive knowledge of industry and industry-related trends and forecasts.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Excel at strategic thinking.
- Excellent listening, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Excellent customer service.
- Creative quick thinking to serve as a problem solver with a positive outlook.
- Ability to effectively manage, lead and supervise a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to foster collaboration, be a team player, though also independent and self-motivated.
- Coachable and can take full ownership of personal development, regularly soliciting feedback from teammates including those supervising, colleagues, and supervisor/s.
- Solid grasp of data analysis and performance metrics.
- Flexibility understanding priorities may shift due to sales strategies.
- Performance driven to exceed sales goals.
- Ability to work at a fast pace in a high production environment!
- Comply with all HR policies including confidentiality and non-disclosure.
- Maintain open communication with the management team and other co-workers.
- Strong work ethic, integrity, and desire to be accountable, transparent and proactive.
Work Schedule/Location:
- On-site 5 days a week.
Please make sure you are willing and able to perform the following:
Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
- While performing the duties of this position, you will be regularly asked to talk or hear.
- You will frequently use your hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls.
- Occasionally, you will need to stand/walk/sit and reach with hands and arms.
- You will be asked to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
Our Benefits
- Health Insurance: Medical, Dental & Vision
- Employee Assistance Plan
- Short-Term Disability
- Life Insurance AD&D
- 401K
- DCM Product/Merch Discounts
- Paid Time Off
- Competitive pay
- Industry Discounts
Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
DCM Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. DCM Inc. is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at DCM Inc. are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. DCM Inc. will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.