Director of Retail Inventory & Compliance
🌿📦 Director of Retail Inventory & Compliance
Location: West Bloomfield, MI
Reports To: CEO / COO
Type: Full-Time, Leadership
🧠 Role Summary
The Director of Retail Inventory & Compliance owns the accuracy, compliance, movement, and financial performance of all inventory across all retail locations.
This mission-critical leadership role ensures 100% alignment between Physical Inventory, METRC, and Dutchie while maintaining full CRA compliance every day.
You will protect:
🏛️ Licenses
💰 Margins & Cash
🛍️ Customer Experience
✅ Core Responsibilities
📦 Retail Inventory Ownership
Own all inventory across all retail locations.
Manage multi-million dollar retail inventory portfolios in a high-volume, multi-store environment.
Ensure real-time accuracy between Physical Inventory, METRC, and Dutchie POS.
Build and enforce standardized retail inventory control systems.
📊 Daily, Weekly & Monthly Inventory Discipline
Design and enforce a company-wide daily cycle count program.
Execute daily cycle counts, weekly audits, monthly reconciliations, and quarterly/annual audits.
Audit sales floor, backstock/vault, quarantine/hold, returns, destructions, transfers, and METRC packages.
Investigate and resolve all discrepancies immediately.
Implement root-cause analysis and corrective action systems.
⚖️ Compliance & Risk Management (CRA / METRC)
Own 100% CRA and METRC compliance across all retail locations.
Ensure continuous audit readiness for CRA inspections, state audits, and internal audits.
Build SOPs that make compliance automatic and non-negotiable.
Eliminate METRC drift, process gaps, and human-error dependency.
👥 Retail Team Leadership
Lead and manage inventory teams at each retail location.
Build a standardized training, certification, and accountability system.
Ensure every store follows the same inventory playbook.
Create a culture of precision, discipline, and ownership.
📈 Merchandising, Stock Levels & Optimization
Partner with Retail Ops and Merchandising to optimize stock levels, improve turns, reduce aging inventory, and improve in-stock rates.
Ensure stores are never overstocked, never out of stock, and never sitting on dead product.
🔒 Shrink, Loss Prevention & Financial Impact
Own shrink performance across retail.
Build shrink dashboards, store-level accountability systems, and investigation frameworks.
Drive improvement in margin, inventory efficiency, and cash utilization.
🛠️ Systems, SOPs & Process Architecture
Design, document, and deploy retail inventory SOPs for receiving, transfers, storage, cycle counting, returns, destructions, adjustments, and recalls.
Drive process discipline and automation across all stores.
🎓 Qualifications & Experience
Required:
5+ years in inventory, retail operations, or supply chain leadership
5+ years in high-volume retail
Proven experience managing multi-million dollar retail inventory
Direct, hands-on experience with METRC and Michigan CRA retail compliance
Experience building SOPs, audit programs, and inventory control systems
Strongly Preferred:
Dutchie POS experience
Cannabis retail operations experience
Multi-store leadership experience
💡 Skills & Attributes
Extremely detail-oriented
Process-driven
Systems thinker
Zero tolerance for sloppy inventory
Calm under audit pressure
Strong leader and trainer
Data-driven operator
📏 Performance Measured By
Inventory accuracy percentage
METRC = Physical = POS alignment
Shrink reduction
Audit results
Zero critical CRA violations
Turn improvement
Aging inventory reduction
🌟 Why This Role Matters
This role protects:
🏛️ Retail licenses
💰 Margins & cash
🛍️ Customer experience
Retail inventory and compliance is where most cannabis companies get hurt. This role ensures it never happens.