Warehouse and Logistics Manager
Inked BrandsAbout Inked Brands Inked Brands is a fast-growing, technology-driven company built around one simple idea: turning passion into product. We partner with creators, entrepreneurs, and innovators to bring their brands to life through full-service e-commerce, design, production, and fulfillment. With an expansion underway and a brand-new headquarters on the horizon, we’re doubling our space, growing our team, and continuing to push the limits of what’s possible in creator commerce, wholesale distributing, and mass retail partnerships. Our culture is collaborative, hands-on, and focused on innovation - blending creativity, data, and technology to make real impact. At Inked, every role matters. Whether you’re coding, designing, accounting, or strategizing, you’ll have the opportunity to own your work, learn from industry experts, and help shape the future of digital commerce. Position Summary The Warehouse Manager leads Inked Brands’ warehouse fulfillment and wholesale fulfillment teams and owns the flow of goods from receiving and put-away through inventory control, picking, packing, and shipping. This new role builds reliable, scalable processes for a multi-brand operation with both individual and wholesale orders. The Manager develops the team, maintains safe and accurate operations, and coordinates freight and retail-compliance requirements so orders leave correctly and on time. A Shipping and Receiving Clerk supports the Manager with shipment paperwork, carrier appointments, LTL scheduling, and routine administrative follow-up. The Manager remains accountable for shipment readiness, service performance, exceptions, and the controls that prevent errors and retailer chargebacks. WAREHOUSE & FULFILLMENT OPERATIONS Direct daily receiving, put-away, replenishment, picking, packing, staging, shipping, and returns across warehouse and wholesale fulfillment. Set daily priorities and labor assignments based on order volume, customer commitments, inbound deliveries, and carrier cutoffs. Establish clear work standards and handoffs between Production, Quality Assurance, warehouse, wholesale fulfillment, and shipping. Maintain orderly locations, accurate product identification, efficient slotting, and capacity plans for new products and seasonal peaks. Investigate missed orders, short shipments, damages, and delays; correct the immediate issue and address its cause. Set and enforce right-sized packaging and material-use standards for parcel and wholesale shipments, including protection needed to reduce transit damage. INVENTORY CONTROL & RECEIVING Own inventory accuracy through disciplined receiving, system transactions, cycle counts, variance research, and reconciliation. Verify that received goods match purchase orders and packing documents; route quantity, damage, and quality discrepancies to the appropriate owner. Ensure product on quality HOLD is identified and kept unavailable for picking or shipment until Quality Assurance authorizes release. Monitor stock movement, replenishment, slow-moving inventory, and space use; recommend improvements to layout and storage practices. Maintain traceable records for receipts, transfers, adjustments, returns, and shipments in the systems used by Inked Brands. Analyze warehouse, order, inventory, shipping, and integration data to confirm transactions and uploads post correctly across the platforms used by Inked Brands; investigate missing, duplicate, delayed, or inaccurate records. Wholesale & Mass Retail Fulfillment Oversee wholesale order execution, including allocation, pick accuracy, carton and pallet preparation, required labeling, documentation, and delivery deadlines. Translate customer and retailer routing guides into practical checklists and train the team on account-specific requirements. For mass retail accounts such as Walmart and Target, oversee applicable purchase order, advance ship notice, routing, appointment, labeling, and pallet requirements; partner with the appropriate internal…