Inventory and Warehouse Manager
Job Title: Inventory and Warehouse Manager
Department: Operations
Supervisor: India Operations Director
Supervises: Warehouse Associate
Date Written/Revised: 5/14/2025
WHY DIASPORA SPICE Co.?
What do we do
Diaspora Spice Co. was founded to radically reimagine the spice trade. We invest money, equity, and power into the best regenerative spices farms across South Asia. What we get are wildly delicious, hella potent flavors to bring your home cooking to the next level.
Why do we do it
The big, audacious dream has always been to grow a radically new, decidedly delicious, and truly equitable spice trade, to push a broken system into an equal exchange, and to have a lot of fun doing it. Just as we are building a market for regenerative farmers, we are also building a community for ourselves. Being in this community is about connecting deeply with the culture and heritage of the regions that we source from, and about learning as we go. Complicating and deepening what "Made in South Asia" means, and how we tell our own stories of freedom, struggle, and diaspora through food.
Diaspora Co.’s Mission and Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
It is important that all applicants are keenly aware of our company values and our firm commitment to creating space for all identities to feel comfortable engaging with our brand and within the company culture itself. We are happy to say that one half of this company was founded to empower South Asian farmers, and the other half to build something beautiful with the BIPOC community who want to build a better industry. We are committed to using our privilege and power to not only educate our community but to hold ourselves accountable and learn from each other. We strive to create a company culture where every person feels comfortable showing up as their full selves. As we continue our anti-racist work, the focus on intentionality, knowledge and community-centric support becomes increasingly important. Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is an ongoing one and the entire Diaspora Co. community is expected to contribute and show up in this work.
Position Summary:
Diaspora Co. is looking for a Mumbai-based Inventory and Warehouse Manager to join us full-time. The Inventory and Warehouse Manager will work cross functionally with our Farm Partner Manager and our Production and Operations teams to ensure a smooth raw materials supply chain. You will be essential to our success as a growing company by keeping perfect track of all our spices that are the core of our business and ensuring their quality as they head from farm to final product.
This position is on-site at our warehouse in Bhiwandi, Maharastra, India.
Essential Responsibilities include:
Inventory Management:
- Handle communication about format and packaging of raw materials so they arrive at the warehouse in an organized, safe and easy to track manner. Maintain excellent records of inventory at all of our warehouses.
- Perform detailed inbounding of all deliveries; be present at warehouse for deliveries and work with warehouse staff to organize inventory and perform counts.
- Prepare and track outbound shipments for production.
- Initiate the purchase of packaging material based on the re-order levels.
- Maintain FIFO at all times, flagging old stock and overstock as necessary.
Quality Control
- Develop and enforce quality assurance protocols to uphold product integrity.
- Report quality feedback to the Farm Partner Manager for farm-level improvements.
- Set up and maintain a quality control protocol that includes inbounding, sampling, lab testing, and tracking of results for continued improvement.
- Maintain detailed records of quality analysis.
Production and logistics:
- Work closely with the Production Manager to ensure smooth production operations ahead of co-packing runs.
- Work with the Export team to send production samples per export batch.
- Dispatch samples for any domestic/international shipping requirements.
Qualifications/Experience:
- This job will be on-site at our warehouse in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra.
- 2 years of experience in fulfillment, supply chain logistics, warehouse management, or a related field
- Experience with food tasting and quality control preferred
- Spreadsheet wizard
- Impeccable organizational skills
- Intrinsic motivation and an eagerness to learn and solve problems
- A strong attention to detail with regards to inventory management
- Ability to lift boxes, stand for long periods of time, and work in a loud environment.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Rs. 45,000 - 55,000 INR DOE
- Full time
- Healthcare - Rs 30,000 stipend per year for a healthcare insurance plan
- PTO - 18 days of predetermined time off as well as an additional 10 days of PTO
- 8 days of sick/mental health / personal days (a total of 48 hours/6 days can roll-over to the next year)
- Rs. 2000 monthly wellness benefit to use on anything related to physical and mental health!
- Rs. 1000 stipend for phone and WIFI plan
How to Apply:
- Please upload a resume and short cover letter to this page
- We are accepting applications on a rolling basis
- If we deem your application acceptable, we will contact you to schedule a 30 minute interview with our operations team.
- We are looking for candidates able to start on 6/1/2025