Birmingham International Forest Products is a premier commodity trading company in the forest products industry and a proud part of Forest City Trading Group, a $7B employee-owned company. Due to recent growth and plans for further expansion, we're looking for an Inventory Specialist to join our team.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Oversee and manage inventory processes, ensuring timely shipments, inventory progression, and accurate daily updates.
- Reconcile accounts, analyze actual costs, and identify inaccuracies, including cost prediction and recording for raw materials, labor, and operations.
- Maintain relationships with mills and clients to ensure proper manufacturing and distribution while resolving any issues.
- Generate and send invoices, track damaged or incorrect inventory, and implement corrective actions when needed.
- Order management and tracking.
- Update spreadsheets and key systems with transactional data, including expenses and sales revenues.
- Contact mills and reload facilities (phone/email) to collect Bill of Ladings (BOLs).
- Enter purchase orders and order confirmations into order management software.
- Process shipping invoices for payment.
Experience & Skills:
- Bachelor's or Associate's degree preferred, but not required.
- Self-motivated with a strong work ethic-team player mindset.
- Detail-oriented and numbers-driven.
- Comfortable making outbound calls to mills and reload facilities.
- Organized, reliable, and dependable.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Eager to learn and ask questions.
To Thrive in This Role, You Are:
- Self-motivated, with a strong work ethic acting as a team player
- A numbers-driven individual who possesses a strong attention to detail
- Comfortable with making outbound calls to mills and reload facilities
- Organized, reliable, and dependable
- An analytical and critical thinker who enjoys problem-solving
- Eager to learn and ask questions
If you're motivated to achieve large-scale success through strong communication, attention to detail, and deep industry relationships, we want to hear from you.