Fresh-Squeezed Legacy, Bold New Chapter
Tropicana Brands Group is a $3B startup aiming to revolutionize the beverage category. Formed in 2022 as a joint venture between PAI Partners and PepsiCo, our portfolio includes iconic brands like Tropicana, Naked, KeVita, Izze, Copella, and Punica. With over 76 years of global leadership in the orange juice category, we’re committed to preserving this legacy while driving innovation in other areas. From reimagining orange juice to creating functional smoothies and driving afternoon refreshments, we are striving to become the undisputed global leader in fresh and chilled beverages.
The Supply Chain function is essential to Tropicana Brand Group’s success by enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products. By improving warehouse operations, optimizing transportation routes, and refining inventory management practices, the team plays a critical role in streamlining processes. Collaborating with other departments to align strategies, the Supply Chain team ensures that Tropicana meets customer demands while maintaining a high standard of performance and cost-effectiveness. Through their efforts, they contribute to both short-term achievements and long-term growth.
Your Next Pour: The Opportunity
We are looking to add a Senior Inventory Coordinator – Raw Materials & Network Storage to our team. This role serves as the primary inventory coordinator between Walnut operations, third-party warehouse operators, manufacturing sites, Planning, Procurement, Transportation, Quality, and Finance teams to ensure accurate inventory records, material availability, and inventory integrity across multiple systems and storage providers. The position is responsible for maintaining inventory accuracy, coordinating inventory transactions and reconciliations, supporting network-wide inventory reporting, and driving inventory governance across multiple warehouse management systems (WMS), vendor inventory portals, and SAP. This role supports annual inventory audits, warehouse-to-warehouse (W2W) reconciliations, month-end and year-end inventory validation activities, and continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen inventory controls, operational execution, and working capital management across the network. Tropicana is looking for a critical thinker with exceptional communication, influencing and relationship management skills who thrives in a fast-paced environment. Additional responsibilities include:
- 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.
The Perfect Blend: Experience
- 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.
- SAP (ECC and/or S/4HANA), Advanced Microsoft Excel, Inventory reconciliation and reporting, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Microsoft Office Suite experience.
Foundational Ingredients: Requirements
- 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
Perks That Pack a Punch
TBG is pleased to offer you a comprehensive benefits package which includes a 401(k) plan, medical, dental, vision, company provided life, STD and LTD insurance. In addition, you may also elect to participate in voluntary life, accident, hospital, and critical illness coverages.
The salary range for this position is $50,000 - 70,000 annually
Equal Opportunity Employer
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