Job Type
Full-time
Description
Position Summary
The Manager, Inventory Analytics operates as a scaled-down version of the Director's role - owning recurring inventory analytics, month-end reporting, and routine decisions, while the Director retains the strategic and higher-risk calls. This role leads a cross-functional team spanning inventory planning, transactional support, and inventory systems/process - giving day-to-day direction across all three, with its own decision ownership within defined thresholds and escalation upward for larger or judgment-based decisions.
Reporting to the Director, Commercial & Inventory Analytics, this role is where most recurring inventory work - planning, transactions, systems/process, and reporting - is executed and delegated within the team, freeing the Director to focus on inventory strategy, governance, and high-dollar or high-risk decisions.
Core Areas of Focus
Inventory Planning & Analytics (Recurring Ownership)
• Own recurring inventory analytics and month-end inventory reporting
• Administer the OSMI incentive process
• Lead routine inventory reviews and stock plan support across the network
• Make purchase recommendations and approve defined lower-risk decisions within delegated thresholds
• Use historical demand and, where appropriate, forward-looking opportunity signals from relevant commercial systems to inform purchase recommendations
Inventory Systems & Process
• Direct inventory systems and process work connecting P21, audits, warehouse reviews, RMAs, and root-cause investigation
• Oversee inventory valuations, inventory adjustment review, and RMA process issues
• Oversee OSMI disposition and execution, including eBay/surplus-buyer coordination
Inventory Accuracy Program
• Lead annual physical inventory support across all sites
• Own quarterly inventory reviews and audits
• Monitor site-level inventory accuracy performance throughout the year
• Coordinate inventory accuracy work across the team and sites
• Track results and corrective actions from reviews, audits, and physical inventories
• Escalate recurring or higher-risk inventory accuracy issues
BI & Dashboard Support
• Direct Power BI development, dashboard maintenance, and advanced analytics supporting inventory planning and analytics
• Ensure data pulls, validation, and reporting logic are accurate and timely
• Coordinate with the Commercial Data Analyst on shared BI/analytics resource needs, since this resource may also support commercial reporting priorities
Team Leadership & Development
• Provide day-to-day direction to team members across inventory planning, transactional support, systems/process, and BI/analytics
• Coach and develop team members toward increasing analytical judgment and business-facing responsibility, including a path toward senior inventory planning or inventory analytics roles
• Delegate recurring and lower-risk work across the team to free capacity for higher-value analysis
Acquisition & Cross-Functional Support
• Provide analytical support for acquisitions, including stock plan analysis, inventory-health input, and inventory valuations
• Support purchasing activity and account-specific stock plan considerations as assigned
Escalation & Governance
• Escalate high-dollar, high-risk, or strategically significant inventory requests and exceptions
• Operate within stock plan governance and review standards
Requirements
Qualifications
• 4-7 years of experience in inventory planning, supply chain analytics, or inventory/operations management, preferably in industrial/B2B distribution
• Experience administering stock plans, OSMI/slow-moving inventory processes, and inventory systems (P21 or similar ERP)
• Strong working knowledge of Power BI or comparable BI tools; SQL a plus
• Experience leading and developing a team spanning analytical, process, and BI/technical skill sets
• Comfort working across Supply Chain, Purchasing, Operations, and Finance
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Analytics, Finance, or related field required
