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# Senior Manager - Warehouse, Inventory Logistics and Planning (WILP) at Humanoid

- **Company:** [Humanoid](https://feeny.ai/companies/humanoid)
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humanoid/465815e3-ae68-4f11-b65b-789f350abdcc

## Job description

Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 Alpha - our rapidly developed humanoid platform now running in real industrial pilots - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.

## Our Mission

At Humanoid we strive to create the world’s leading, commercially scalable, safe, and advanced humanoid robots that seamlessly integrate into daily life and amplify human capacity.

## About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager to build and lead Humanoid’s global Warehouse, Inventory, Logistics and Planning function, enabling scalable, reliable and cost‑efficient operations across London, Boston and Vancouver.

## What You’ll Do

Strategy and leadership

- Define and own the Supply Chain and Logistics strategy for the Business, aligned with company strategy.
- Build the operating model, governance, KPIs and cadence for warehouse, inventory, logistics and planning
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of WILP managers. Foster an environment of continuous learning and development.
- Support the WILP teams across regional sites.
- Set OKRs, KPIs, and performance expectations.
- Foster a high‑performance, collaborative, curious and continuous‑improvement culture.
- Decisive and data driven, able to make priority calls under pressure.
- Confident communicator with customers and executives, keeps promises and raises risks early.
- This role operates in a high‑complexity robotics supply chain with multi‑tier suppliers, long lead times, export controls, make-to-order, and engineer‑to‑order flows.
- Ensure compliance with safety, environmental and regulatory standards across all WILP operations.
- Act as deputy for the Global Head of Supply Chain & Logistics when required.

Planning and order fulfilment

- Build a rigorous scheduling process for make to order, assemble to order and configure to order flows, including one piece flow where feasible.
- Run daily and weekly tier meetings to manage exceptions, shortages, and expedites, ensuring clear root‑cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Lead the available to promise and capable to promise process, including project slotting and allocations during shortages.
- Ensure export compliance, documentation accuracy and clean handover to carriers and customs partners.

Warehouse and Inventory

- Develop and maintain inventory management processes to optimise warehouse operations.
- Oversee and execute inventory counts, reconciliation, and audits.
- Monitor and manage stock levels to meet customer demands and avoid overstock or shortages.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve inventory processes and accuracy.
- Lead and mentor the WILP teams at group and operational levels to achieve department goals.
- Maintain a clean, organised, and safe warehouse environment.

Logistics & Supplier / Customer focus

- Define and manage the distribution network for scale and mass deliveries, including central DCs, regional DCs and cross docks.
- Select and manage 3PLs (and potentially 4PLs), carriers and freight forwarders with clear SLAs and quarterly performance reviews.
- Implement transportation management, route optimisation and consolidation rules that protect OTIF and cost.
- Strong understanding of Incoterms and global trade compliance.
- Good understanding of logistics processes across the Americas, UK, and Europe.
- Ensure warehouse processes, WMS usage, inventory accuracy and cycle counting reach Group standards.
- Build fulfilment playbooks for panel builders and system integrators, including call off models, kitting, pre assembly and sequenced deliveries to site.
- Create a proactive milestone tracking and communication model that gives customers crystal clear ETAs and risks.
- Agree service level agreements by customer segment, including OTIF targets, lead time windows and communication rules.

We’re Looking For:

- 10+ years of direct Warehouse, Inventory, Logistics & Planning experience, ideally in manufacturing, robotics, technology, aero / defence, automotive or FMCG.
- Proven experience establishing or scaling direct WILP functions.
- Degree in Business, International Supply Chain & Procurement Management, Engineering, or related field.
- CIPS (MCIPS) Level 5 or equivalent; APICS CPIM desirable.
- Strong understanding of contract law, commercial terms, and negotiation frameworks.
- Awareness of export controls (including EAR) relevant to robotics and technology.
- Proficiency in Google Workspace, Slack, and database management.
- Hands-on experience with ERP (for example SAP S4HANA), APS, WMS, TMS and analytics tools such as Power BI.
- Proven success serving project based or engineer to order customers.
- Proven leadership of multi‑site or multi‑region operations and external logistics partners
- Expertise in S&OP, master scheduling, MRP and inventory optimisation.
- Strong analytical, numerical, and planning capabilities.
- Excellent negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder‑management skills.
- Ability to work cross‑functionally in a fast‑paced, engineering‑driven environment.
- Highly organised, adaptable, and able to manage shifting priorities.
- Professional, motivated, and able to operate autonomously and within teams.

What We Offer:

- Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.
- 30+ days time off, including 23 days annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas–New Year shutdown).
- Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care.
- Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.
- Work at the frontier - collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics.
- Real ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.

## About Humanoid

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Humanoid builds commercially scalable, safe, and reliable humanoid robots designed to automate labor-intensive industrial tasks across warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, and retail.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (HQ) with offices in Cambridge, MA, USA; Burnaby, BC, Canada; and additional presence in Germany, Georgia, and the UAE.
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Artem Sokolov (CEO & Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Robotics Engineering, Humanoid Robotics, Industrial Automation, Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B / Enterprise — industrial sectors including retail, e-commerce, third-party logistics (3PL), manufacturing, and automotive.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Empowering humanity by building the most reliable, safe, and helpful humanoid robots.” The company aims to free people from repetitive, dangerous, and tedious work, allowing them to engage in more creative and meaningful activities.

## Products & Services
- **HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled**: A robust industrial-grade wheeled humanoid robot designed for material handling, pick-and-place, and visual inspection in warehouses and factories. Prioritizes reliability, low total cost of ownership (TCO), and minimal maintenance.
- **HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal**: A bipedal humanoid robot for more complex environments requiring advanced locomotion, navigation of confined spaces, and higher dexterity. Features human-level manipulation speeds and walking speeds up to 1.5 m/s.
- **KinetIQ**: An AI framework for orchestrating fleets of humanoid robots across both wheeled and bipedal platforms, enabling centralized control and task optimization.
- **Modular Garments**: Exchangeable protective “garments” that allow HMND 01 robots to adapt to different use cases and environments, minimizing contamination and collision damage while enabling functional customization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$50 million** (Seed round closed October 2025, with 1 lead investor).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Strategic partners include leading global companies in AI, cloud computing, and research. Specific partner names are not publicly listed on the website, but the company highlights collaboration with commercial partners to scale deployment.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **139.2% YoY** to ~182 employees (as of mid-2026), with 65 active job postings.
  - Opened offices in London, Boston, and Vancouver within its first year.
  - Team includes talent recruited from major robotics and AI firms: Sanctuary AI, Boston Dynamics, Dyson, Arrival, Ocado Technology, 1X, Wayve, Apptronik, and Brain Corp.
  - Focus on initial target sectors representing a combined $12 trillion in annual payroll and 250 million workers.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Human-centric design**: The world is already designed for humans, so humanoids can seamlessly integrate into existing environments without costly redesign.
- **Modularity**: HMND 01’s hardware/software modularity enables multi-task performance and easy repurposing, reducing the need for specialized robots.
- **Reliability & low TCO**: Prioritizing hardware and software stability over raw performance to deliver industrial-grade robustness suitable for mass commercialization.
- **KinetIQ fleet orchestration AI**: Proprietary framework for managing mixed fleets of wheeled and bipedal robots, differentiating from competitors focused on single-form-factor robots.
- **Experienced leadership**: CEO Artem Sokolov previously scaled a family manufacturing business into a billion-dollar enterprise (EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2021). The CTO, Jarad Cannon, has extensive experience translating research into deployment-ready robotics systems.

## Strategic Focus
- **Near-term (2027)**: Deploy robots for physical tasks in manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, and retail — tackling repetitive, dangerous, and tedious manual work.
- **Medium-term (2029)**: Expand into the service sector, targeting the 70-80% of the global economy that will be services, with a focus on assisting an aging population (1.4B people over 60).
- **Long-term (2031+)**: Enter households as assistants and companions, potentially revolutionizing everyday life across 3.5 billion homes.
- **Core strategy**: Partner with leading global companies in AI, cloud, and research for technology development, and with commercial partners for scaled deployment. The company believes the humanoid TAM will reach $38 billion by 2035 and $1 trillion by 2050.

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth environment**: Company grew headcount by 139% in a single year, indicating rapid scaling and opportunity for career advancement. 65+ open roles suggest strong hiring momentum.
- **Talent from top robotics firms**: Team includes alumni from Boston Dynamics, Sanctuary AI, Dyson, Ocado Technology, Arrival, Wayve, and others — offering a deep learning and collaboration environment.
- **Technical focus**: Engineering and technical roles represent 38% of the workforce, with senior-level hires at 23% of the team. The company emphasizes hardware, AI, machine learning, and control systems.
- **Mission-driven**: Clear purpose to automate undesirable, unsafe, and repetitive work — appealing to candidates who want to make a tangible societal impact.
- **Global presence**: Offices in London (HQ), Cambridge (USA), and Burnaby (Canada), plus operations in 16 countries — offering potential for international mobility and remote collaboration.
- **Innovation culture**: Described as a place where engineers and researchers “move from demo to deployment” and “not just in the lab.” The CTO emphasizes building systems that perform in the real world from day one.
- **Office/Hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the company has physical offices in three countries and a distributed team across 16 nations — likely supports hybrid/remote with in-office collaboration for engineering roles.

## Sources
1. [thehumanoid.ai](https://thehumanoid.ai/)
2. [thehumanoid.ai/about-us/](https://thehumanoid.ai/about-us/)
3. [thehumanoid.ai/team/](https://thehumanoid.ai/team/)
4. [thehumanoid.ai/careers/](https://thehumanoid.ai/careers/)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanoidai)
6. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com/humanoid](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humanoid)

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