Inventory Analyst jobs in United States, Wisconsin, Madison

Key job responsibilities
• Develop and maintain weekly unit forecast to validate placement strategies to inform labor planning, and partner with warehouse teams to determine appropriate prioritization
• Manage PO allocations by FC in partnership with Buying and Vendors
• Create and maintain dashboards and reports to track key performance indicators (KPIs) for operational success
• Identify process improvement opportunities for existing processes and reporting, design additional controls to solve deficiencies, and drive positive change across the organization
• Support Accounts Payable with the validation and auditing of new operational data flows
• Support the development of inventory placement models and optimizations to reduce the cost of moving our inventory throughout the network
• Trace inventory transactions across receipt, stow, outbound, and return to identify gaps, resolve issues, and implement controls to systematically correct
• Track down and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports
• Provide ad-hoc analysis on revenue trends and inventory health
• Support processes for managing inventory exception paths to limit out-of-pocket inventory (i.e. unsellable inventory)
• Pull and report data from numerous databases (using Excel, SQL, and/or other data management systems) and dive deep via research and problem-solving techniques

- 3+ years of business analyst, data analyst or similar role experience
- 3+ years of Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau experience
- Experience with SQL
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience through data and metrics
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Strong written and verbal communication