Director, Inventory Optimization - Remote

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the Optimization team by developing individual team members, achieving department goals, and maintaining strong engagement
• Manage inventory targets, across safety stock, max targets, ordering quantities, and other elements, to achieve optimal levels of inventory across the supply chain and stores
• Deploy best business practices for optimizing sales through effective Inventory management of different assortments, inventory levels, and techniques on a sku/store and sku/DC basis
• Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends, patterns and opportunities, with the ability to summarize those key insights and propose actionable next steps to stakeholders
• Clearly present analytics and models to business leaders and cross-functional partners with articulated insights, business rationale, and future path/goal
• Learn about existing Inventory department processes to find opportunities to improve models, processes, or analytics; automate reporting; and highlight key insights
• Develop, implement, and disseminate metrics/KPIs about performance, sales, and outcomes including dashboards and data visualization toolsets. Leverage predictive models and develop ROI tracking to measure results of business strategies
• Work closely and build relationships with the internal Supply Chain Operations, Store, Finance, Operations, Merchandising, Sourcing, and Information Technology teams. Function as a technical point of escalation, analytical problem solver and technical translator to internal teams and clients
• Provide ongoing strategic direction/vision for advanced analytics, scoring and strategy insights. Highly team-oriented in nature, collaborate and work cross-functionally, presenting as an Inventory leader to partner with DC, Store Operations, Merchant, Forecasting, and Inv. Partners

Qualifications

Staff supervision and development: Yes

Decision making: Uses independent judgment and looks at the larger picture to manage company-wide initiatives that help achieve long-term goals; Provides strategic thought partnership with Sr Leadership to drive future business decisions; gathers and performs data analytics to develop findings and provide recommendations; manages and leads other people leaders just below them, serving as a mentor and ensuring their leaders implement company policies, procedures and initiatives correctly