Inventory Planning & Replenishment Analyst

Responsibilities

• Replenishment & PO Execution
• Review daily replenishment needs using WOS targets, run-rate, lead time, current inventory, open POs, backorders, and demand trends.
• Release purchase orders based on planning logic, business priorities, and exception review.
• Validate system recommendations before execution, especially for SKUs with high velocity, high value, long lead-time, demand spikes, and overstock risk.
• Monitor back-orders, stock-out risk, past-due open POs, and vendor constraints.
• Escalate issues that could impact in-stock position, service levels, inventory exposure, or merchant goals.
• Item Master & Planning Data Accuracy
• Work with Merchants and Item Master to keep planning-related item fields accurate and updated in a timely manner.
• Identify missing, outdated, or incorrect item attributes that impact replenishment, SKU classification, lead time, WOS, aged inventory, overstock, GMROI, dashboards, and planning feeds.
• Follow up on item setup issues that create inaccurate recommendations, reporting gaps, or poor inventory decisions.
• Help strengthen data governance by identifying recurring data-quality issues and recommending process improvements.
• Exception Management & Root-Cause Analysis
• Own exception review for aged inventory, overstock, past-due open POs, backorders, signal overrides, unusual demand patterns, and planning data gaps.
• Perform root-cause analysis to determine whether issues are driven by demand shifts, incorrect item setup, vendor delays, lead time changes, PO timing, merchant ownership, system logic, or execution gaps.
• Identify situations where the data may not tell the full story, including one-time sales spikes, promo lifts, new item behavior, vendor transitions, special/opportunity buys, or abnormal demand.
• Merchant & Cross-Functional Support
• Partner with Merchants to validate item-level assumptions, demand changes, product lifecycle status, vendor realities, and purchasing needs.
• Support merchant requests with data-backed inventory recommendations.
• Cross-coordinate with Item Master, Vendors, Warehouse Operations, and Finance to resolve inventory issues.
• Own inventory-related JIRA tickets from intake through resolution, ensuring clear follow-up, ownership, and closure.

What Will Help You Thrive

• Experience in inventory planning, replenishment, purchasing, demand planning, retail operations, or supply chain.
• Strong understanding of WOS, run-rate, lead time, inventory turns, GMROI, aged inventory, overstock, backorders, and open PO management.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large SKU-level datasets.
• Ability to analyze inventory issues, identify root causes, and recommend practical actions.
• Strong attention to detail, especially around item-level data and planning inputs.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with Merchants, BI/Looker, Item Master, Vendors, Warehouse Operations, and Finance.
• Experience with JIRA, BI tools, ERP systems, or replenishment systems is preferred.
• E-commerce, consumer electronics, or marketplace inventory experience is a plus.

Success Measures

• More accurate and timely PO execution.
• Better adherence to WOS and inventory targets.
• Improved control over aged inventory, backorders, and past-due open POs.
• Faster resolution of item master and planning data issues.
• Improved quality of replenishment inputs and dashboard outputs.
• Stronger exception management and merchant follow-up.
• Reduced manual work through better reporting, process discipline, and root-cause resolution.