Career Evolutions is searching for a Senior Manager of Inventory & Supply Chain for a fast-growing global technology company headquartered in Seattle, WA. Full-time, direct-hire opportunity with compensation up to $250,000.
Job Title: Senior Manager of Inventory & Supply Chain
If you’re inspired by a new challenge, the thought of contributing to a business in a significant way, and leading a team to do it, this is the position for you!
Job Summary: You are a talented, driven, and highly analytical Senior Manager of Inventory & Supply Chain with proven experience driving process improvement and thought leadership. You will be responsible for identifying, creating, developing and integrating innovative solutions and programs that lead to improvements of inventory and products. You will interact closely with retail and operations business partners and be responsible for managing the Supply Chain team. You will create and implement inventory management strategies to maximize customer experience, sales, margin and turns, as well as end-to-end business ownership of all supply chain processes from manufacturer to consumer.
You will operate at all levels, strategic & tactical and integrate strong and clear analysis and business rationale into sound decision making. You have a strong understanding of data and demonstrated success in driving processes. You will operate from a company-wide perspective and have a successful track record of driving cross-functional engagement and cross-business project development..
Responsibilities:
Optimize the customer experience by ensuring the right product quantities are in the right places at the right time.
Determine inventory strategies and lead the team to execute on them to optimize sales, margins, turns and inventory health.
Monitor, analyze and own key performance indicators such as in stock rate, procurement lead time (PLT), fill rate, forecast accuracy and turns.
Analyze inventory levels and position, landed cost and SKU performance to determine inventory liability and an exit strategy for unproductive inventory.
Perform audits of inventory management-related tools and systems ensuring settings are correct and optimized. Automate whenever possible.
Expert on product lifecycle and can effectively optimize forecasting, planning, and procurement parameters.
Partner with Supply Chain to communicate and plan the operational impact of planning and sourcing decisions.
Possess strong data extraction and analytical capabilities along with the ability to apply this data to drive decisions.
Managing with solid strength, demonstrating good judgment, and establishing the right goals and priorities.
Provide direction for recruiting, and participates in training, on-boarding and mentoring.
Establish and maintain strong vendor operational relationships leading to vendor compliance.
Identify, recommend, and implement opportunities for supply chain improvements.
Foster global relationships with internal development teams and contribute toward developing and refining buying tools and systems.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree, MBA preferred.
10+ years of experience in inventory planning, operations/supply chain management and/or finance
Proven ability to manage large and complicated cross-functional projects.
Experience managing and leading a team
Demonstrated ability to succeed at managing large catalog selection efficiently, identifying problems and finding solutions, building/improving processes
Experience creating and setting annual operating plan and presenting to Senior Management Strong numerical and analytical aptitude
Proficient in Excel
Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast paced environment
