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Headlined by its flagship brands, Kichler and Progress Lighting, Coleto Brands provides residential lighting fixtures across key categories, including interior and exterior decorative lighting, bath/vanity, architectural systems and downlights, ceiling fans and landscape. Visit www.coletobrands.com.\nColeto Brands, parent Company of Progress Lighting and Kichler, is seeking an Inventory and Returns Supervisor to join our team at our Jefferson, GA distribution center. This is a full-time, salaried exempt position with a typical schedule of Monday-Friday, 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM, though additional hours may be required to support business needs. The ideal candidate is a hands-on, detail-oriented leader who thrives in a fast-paced distribution environment. This individual will oversee inventory control and customer returns operations, ensuring inventory accuracy, timely and accurate returns processing, proper product disposition, and efficient product flow. Success in this role requires operational discipline, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, effective team leadership, and a continuous improvement mindset.\nWe're looking for someone who can lead and develop teams, strengthen inventory integrity, and take ownership of the full returns process - from receipt and inspection through resolution and final disposition. This leader will partner across departments to improve accuracy, turnaround times, customer experience, and overall distribution center performance.\nDuties and Responsibilities:\nLead daily inventory and returns operations, assign work, manage staffing priorities, and ensure safe, accurate, and timely execution.\nSupervise, coach, and develop associates; set clear expectations and drive accountability, productivity, and continuous improvement.\nOversee cycle counts, location audits, inventory reconciliations, and annual physical inventory activities.\nInvestigate inventory variances, mislocations, and transaction errors; identify root causes and implement corrective actions.\nMaintain accurate inventory records, adjustments, transfers, and product statuses in WMS and ERP systems in accordance with established controls.\nOversee the full returns process, from receipt and verification through inspection, system processing, and final disposition.\nEnsure returned products are assessed for condition, damage, and completeness, and properly restocked, held, reworked, or disposed of under company policies.\nEnsure timely, accurate returns processing and documentation to support customer credits, replacements, claims, and issue resolution.\nMonitor inventory and returns KPIs, including accuracy, cycle count completion, returns backlog, turnaround time, and productivity; report trends and drive improvements.\nPartner with Customer Service, Quality, Supply Chain, and warehouse teams to resolve issues, reduce recurring returns and inventory errors, and reinforce safe work practices.\nAdditional duties as assigned.\nBachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or related field preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience.\nExperience supervising returns processing, reverse logistics, or product disposition activities preferred.\nAbility to manage competing inventory and returns priorities, investigate exceptions, and drive timely cross-functional resolution.\nMinimum of 5 years of warehouse, distribution center, inventory control, or returns operations experience.\nMinimum of 3 years of supervisory or leadership experience preferred.\nDemonstrated ability to lead, coach, motivate, and develop high-performing teams.\nStrong knowledge of inventory control principles and distribution center returns processes, including cycle counting, reconciliation, returned-product inspection, disposition, and inventory adjustments.\nExperience using Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), ERP systems (SAP preferred), RF scanning technology, and Microsoft Office Suite; strong Excel skills preferred.\nWorking knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, 5S, or Continuous Improvement methodologies preferred.\nAbility to lift up to 50 lbs. as needed\nApplicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.\nColeto Brands LLC, its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “Coleto Brands” or the “Company”) is an equal opportunity employer and we want to have the best available persons in every job. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit.\nIt is the Company’s policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.\nColeto Brands is an E-Verify employer. E-Verify is an Internet based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA) that allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees in the United States. 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