Inventory Control Team Lead

What We Do

CarParts.com is the go-to eCommerce platform for auto care and maintenance. We offer drivers quality parts at competitive prices and allow customers to schedule an appointment with a trusted mechanic directly from our website. We use world-class design principles and the latest technologies to deliver a fast, easy-to-use, and mobile-intuitive website. And with our company-owned national distribution network, we bring the best brands and manufacturers directly to consumers, cutting out the costs associated with brick-and-mortar retailers. Our more than 1,700 team members worldwide are dedicated to Empowering Drivers Along Their Journey.

Our Culture

At CarParts.com, we're DRIVEN by our core values: Safety First, Customer Focused, and a Commitment to Excellence. These values guide us in everything we do and push us further in our growth both as a company and as people. They cultivate an environment where employees are inspired and empowered as we build and thrive together. All the hard work of our entire team has resulted in back-to-back record-breaking quarters since Q1 of 2020, as well as our inclusion in the Los Angeles Business Journal's top 100 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles list for four years in a row (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). Join us!

Summary of Role/Position

The Team Lead performs moderately complex material handling system work. Work involves interpreting documents, running waves, rack notify and stock notify, picking, out sorting, packing, and aged order clean up. Works under direction with latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. Utilizes and directs team resources toward specific goals and objectives.

YOU WILL:

• Monitor work flow and system functions, recommend or employ solutions where appropriate.

• Perform coaching, mentoring, and motivating functions in order to improve team performance. Develop and transfer performance skills to the assigned team, and seek opportunities for improvement throughout the organization.

• Assist team members in identifying areas for development and assist them in establishing skill development plans.

• Participate in development and implementation of operating procedures.

• The ability to work with others in a team environment, the ability to take direction from Supervisors, the ability to follow work rules and procedures, and the ability to accept constructive criticism.

• Must be able to lead and manage others effectively.

• Maintain safe operating practices.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

YOU MUST HAVE:

• Functional reading, writing and math.

• Graduation from high school or equivalent.

• Education and experience may be substituted for one another.

• PC literacy.

• Written and verbal communication/instruction skills

• Intermediate interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Innovative ideas followed by clear planning and implementation.

• A flexible attitude.

• Self-motivation and a determination to succeed.

• The ability to meet deadlines.

• The ability to work overtime as required.

• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• The ability to work with a team.

• The ability to lift products of up to 50 lbs

CarParts.com is an equal-opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. Our management is dedicated to ensuring that we fulfill this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

The above-noted job description is not intended to describe, in detail, the multitude of tasks that may be assigned but rather to give the incumbent a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of his/her position. As the nature of business demands change so, too, may the essential functions of this position.