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About the Role

Lola Blankets is seeking an Inventory & Logistics Coordinator to manage their end-to-end import program, ensuring accurate booking, tracking, costing, and receiving of all shipments. This high-volume, hands-on role involves coordinating with vendors and freight forwarders, maintaining ERP accuracy, and ensuring a smooth receiving and inventory process.

Responsibilities

• Partner with vendors on production WIP, cargo ready dates, and freight pickups.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for vendors on shipping-related questions.
• Book and approve shipping routes and rates with freight forwarders.
• Review and approve forwarder invoices against contracted rates and resolve discrepancies.
• Track containers in transit and proactively communicate delays or issues.
• Manage freight forwarder performance and hold them accountable.
• Work with customs broker to confirm correct import details and documentation.
• Maintain complete, audit-ready documentation for every import PO.
• Maintain a master shipment register for every container.
• Ensure duty paid matches declared value and resolve discrepancies.
• Own accurate date and schedule tracking in the ERP.
• Partner with the Planning/Production team to ensure accurate landed cost in the ERP.
• Reconcile ERP records against actual invoices and duty paid.
• Coordinate receiving schedules with the warehouse.
• Process receipt of inbound containers, confirming quantity and condition.
• Resolve receiving issues with the Operations Manager.
• Partner with teams to maintain accurate inventory.
• Run daily inventory reconciliation processes and escalate discrepancies.
• Support periodic cycle counts.

Requirements

• Experience managing FOB ocean freight imports.
• Experience working with external teams from production vendors to 3PL warehouse teams.
• Working knowledge of US customs entry, HTS classification, and duty calculation.
• Comfortable working fluently with a customs broker.
• Comfortable establishing new processes and recordkeeping infrastructure.
• Strong ERP experience, including costing and scheduling/date-tracking modules.
• Comfortable owning vendor and forwarder relationships directly.
• Strong inventory fundamentals including receiving, cycle counts, and reconciliation.
• Extreme attention to detail and a passion for reconciliation work.
• Positive, can-do, solution-oriented attitude.
• Natural excitement to solve problems.

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary (commensurate with experience)

Benefits

• 21 days paid vacation + federal holidays
• Full health, dental, and vision benefits
• 16 weeks paid birth parent leave
• 8 weeks non-birth parent leave
• 55% off Lola Blankets for friends and family

About the Company

• Lola Blankets, the creator of the world’s softest luxury faux fur blankets