Director - Inventory

As the Director – Inventory, you will be responsible for developing and executing the Inventory Management strategy to optimize investment while providing high-level service to customers. You will develop and drive inventory best practices, collaborating with leadership, stakeholders and business partners.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with other leaders across the supply chain and business to identify new opportunities to drive inventory improvements
• Lead Inventory team to create, implement, and execute inventory optimization plans and programs, developing forecasts for future demand
• Develop standards, metrics, and procedures that maximizes inventory management efficiencies
• Drive cross-functional teams and stakeholder to optimize inventory capabilities and develop best inventory management practices
• Collaborate with business units to build strategic plan that aligns with business goals
• Develop and carry out process improvement initiatives and collaborates with functional areas to identify best practices and process standardization.
• Define standardized KPI's based on industry best practices and ensures that these KPI's are successfully deployed
• Partner with internal/external teams to solve vendor issues, manage vendor changes and plan for product additions
• Act as coach and mentor to support career development plans
• Recruit and develop team, focusing on future leadership potential and succession planning

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree preferred
• Blue Yonder Fulfillment experience preferred
• 10 years of experience in inventory management, including negotiations and knowledge of key contractual language
• 10 years demonstrated experience collaborating with business operations and functional groups
• 8 years management/supervisory experience
• 8 years of experience leading change management
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to influence individuals and teams with or without reporting relationships
• 10+ years leadership experience with proven ability to formulate and communicate clear vision and sense of direction and mobilize people preferred
• 10+ years of experience organizing and facilitating multidisciplinary teams through structured workshops (strategic session, Kaizens, problem solving sessions) preferred
• 10+ years change management leadership experience including ability to communicate a need for change, create all necessary conditions for successful change and overcome different forms of resistance preferred
• 10+ years proven coaching and training experience including the ability to facilitate team members to develop their skills and abilities to achieve agreed upon objectives preferred
• Ability to travel up to 25%