Senior Planning & Inventory Manager

Job Description:

- Senior Planning and Inventory Manager will be responsible for driving inventory decisions and key supply chain initiatives for their fast-growing business.

- S/he will be responsible for developing and executing best practices in managing inventory to maximize sales margin, and inventory turns.

- S/he will have the responsibility of ensuring all inventory systems and processes are meeting the needs of the business and implementing controls around these processes.

Your day-to-day tasks will include:

- Demand Planning - Determining the order quantities by considering forecasts, historical trends and inventory targets.

- Inventory Management - Manage inventory availability and inventory health including improved in-stock, turns, vendor operational improvement (efficiency, fill rates, lead time) and forecasting.

- Define Operational strategy - Responsible for defining Operational strategy & Manage day-to-day operational relationships with vendors and distributors partners, including product lifecycle management, expanding selection and optimize sourcing recommendations / decisions.

- Drive Efficiency - Drive metrics to improve efficiency including inventory replenishment, managing overstock inventory, and operational processes.

- Manage Brands - Maintain vendor relationship and work on vendor performance improvement through daily communication, training session, tracking purchase orders, investigating late deliveries, resolving order rejections, working with vendors on PO automation, etc.