Inventory Control Lead

Job purpose

Inventory management

• Lead day-to-day inventory control across warehouses, yards, and construction sites.
• Maintain records of materials, consumables, spare parts, tools, and equipment; monitor stock levels and reorder requirements.
• Conduct physical stock counts, cycle counts, and annual audits; investigate discrepancies, shortages, damages, and variances.
• Implement inventory procedures and ensure items are identified, labeled, coded, and stored appropriately.

Asset and equipment management

• Maintain an asset register for construction equipment, vehicles, tools, machinery, IT assets, and project assets.
• Track asset movements, assignments, condition, location, utilization, and lifecycle; coordinate transfers, returns, disposal, and replacement.
• Identify idle, underutilized, damaged, or obsolete assets and recommend action.
• Coordinate equipment and tool availability, allocation, deployment, utilization, inspections, maintenance, and repairs.

Warehouse, systems, and compliance

• Coordinate with warehouse, procurement, logistics, construction, and project teams on receiving, inspection, issuing, transfers, returns, and site deliveries.
• Maintain inventory and asset information in ERP/WMS or asset management systems and post transactions promptly.
• Prepare monthly inventory and asset reports; develop KPIs and dashboards for accuracy, turnover, utilization, and variance.
• Maintain procedures, controls, documentation, and audit trails; support internal and external audits and compliance with company policies, project requirements, and applicable KSA regulations.

Team leadership and performance

• Supervise inventory controllers, storekeepers, asset coordinators, and related staff; allocate work and monitor performance.
• Train employees on inventory control, asset handling, documentation, and system procedures.
• Promote accountability, accuracy, safety, and continuous improvement.
• KPIs include inventory accuracy and variance, stock-outs, slow-moving stock, turnover, asset utilization and loss, register accuracy, transaction timeliness, cycle counts, carrying costs, and procedural compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• CIPS, CSCP, CPIM, or equivalent professional certifications are advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of inventory, warehouse, logistics, and asset management principles.
• The source states 7–10+ years of relevant experience, but the description ends mid-qualification.