Associate Director – Print Supply Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $117.3k - $158.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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⚙️ Operations

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inquirED

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11 - 50 employees

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

🤝 B2B

Education • eCommerce • B2B

inquirED is an education technology company founded by teachers, dedicated to implementing inquiry-based learning in classrooms across the United States. The company provides a K–5 social studies curriculum that promotes engaging investigations in history, civics, geography, and economics, while integrating literacy skills through research-based practices. Their resources also support culturally responsive instruction, ensuring that students' voices and interests are valued and reflected in their learning experiences.

📋 Description

• Own the path from closed deal to delivered box • Convert each order into a vendor-ready order with correct components, quantities, school allocations, and delivery dates • Plan production and shipping backward from the first day of school and beginning-of-year professional development • Resolve missing, damaged, or incorrect orders and track issues through closure • Establish quality checks to catch printing and kitting errors before district delivery • Keep Sales, Partner Experience, and districts informed about order status • Maintain a complete breakdown of titles, printed pieces, and kit components in products • Forecast demand with Sales and Product and set print quantities and reorder points • Manage trade book risks including reprints, back orders, and out-of-print titles • Define operating approaches across printers, fulfillment centers, warehouses, book distributors, and kit suppliers • Lead RFPs and negotiations and review vendor performance each season • Coordinate designers, Product, and printers to ensure feasible specifications aligned with curriculum design • Visit vendor sites to review quality and capacity • Track full item and kit costs from printing through shipping • Partner with Finance and Marketing to track product margins and recommend pricing and packaging changes • Share production timelines with curriculum teams • Track and report measures such as on-time delivery and cost per kit • Document core processes and hire and manage additional support as needed • Report to the CEO

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years in supply chain, print production, or fulfillment operations, including ownership of orders from purchase through delivery • 3+ years managing vendor relationships with printers, fulfillment centers, or warehouses, including leading RFPs and negotiating price and schedule • Direct experience with printed materials, trade books, and multi-item kits • Working knowledge of print production and inventory planning, including specs, proofs, forecasting, and reorder points • Strong analytical skills, including cost modeling and margin analysis • Track record of fixing operational problems and implementing processes to prevent recurrence • Willingness and ability to travel • Preferred: background in K–12 publishing or classroom materials, including back-to-school delivery cycles and state adoptions • Preferred: experience working with third-party fulfillment warehouses and trade book distributors • Preferred: prior work as the first owner of a function at a growing company • Must be U.S. based

🏖️ Benefits

• Employee-covered health care • 401K retirement match • Flexible PTO • 12+ observed days off • Biannual company retreats • Optional local meetups • Work-from-home flexibility • Technology package provided • Home office stipend • Educational and development opportunities • Monthly Brunch and Learns