Analyst, Inventory Optimization

Posted 2 days ago

Job Details

Contract

Location

Vancouver, BC

Salary

dollar sign 47 to 48.500 per hour

Job Description

Join a team focused on optimizing inventory placement across a complex North American fulfillment network, using data and analytics to drive efficiency, improve product flow, and reduce costs.
This is a highly collaborative role where you will partner across multiple functions to solve operational challenges, enhance processes, and influence key business decisions.

Who – The Company:
Our client, one of Vancouvers most sought-after companies to work for, with global operations and an impeccable reputation.

What- The Role:
Our Clients Fulfillment Inventory Management team plays a critical role in maintaining inventory health, optimizing network capacity, enabling strategic inventory placement across the fulfillment network, and ensuring the timely exit of end‑of‑life inventory. They partner closely with a broad range of cross‑functional teams to deliver on investment commitments while governing the processes that support effective inventory management and end‑of‑life execution.
They design and evolve core operational processes, lead governance routines, strengthen organizational connectivity, and generate data‑driven insights that fuel continuous improvement and risk mitigation. Through consistent and scalable governance frameworks, they drive efficient, standardized inventory practices that improve product availability, maximize DC space utilization, and minimize impacts on DC operations.
This role will support the inventory placement strategy across the NAM network to optimize product lifecycle and drive cost reductions.
Core responsibilities

Analyze large, complex datasets to support inventory placement decisions and track impact on network fulfillment costs.
Analyze fulfillment and upstream product processes to identify root causes of suboptimal inventory placement and quantify impacts across the fulfillment network.
Support scenario planning and escalate inventory placement needs through cross-functional partnership to analyze inventory performance, surface risks, and recommend actionable improvements.
Enhance existing processes, reporting and management routines.
Optimize and automate financial and operational models and workflows.

Who- the Candidate:

2-3 years of industry, consulting, CPA or equivalent supporting a retail client
Experience in a vertically integrated retail company
Fulfillment or supply chain experience is an asset
Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills with ability to consider operational inputs to quantify financial outputs
Experience using PowerBI

How much:
$47-48.50/hr + 4% vacation pay, if incorporated, please discuss with Swim.

Where:
Vancouver, hybrid working conditions, minimum 3 days onsite, most members of this team work 4 days onsite, and 1 remote work day

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