Inventory and Supply Chain Analyst

Inked Brands is excited to find our next Inventory and Supply Chain Analyst. You are the right candidate for this role if you are a procurement specialist with the ability to evaluate potential suppliers, negotiate prices and terms, manage contracts, and maintain inventory levels to meet demand while minimizing costs. You'll interact daily with team members across all departments for this IN OFFICE role in Bowling Green, KY and represent Inked to our outside contacts. You will work across our wholesale, distribution, and manufacturing sectors helping to navigate inventory purchases, resource allocation and to forecast future sales, and maximize the organization's production. We are looking for the right team member who embodies our core values at Inked and is ready to dig in, own the role, have a positive attitude and assist in selling products that matter!

What you'll do:

• Prepare weekly, monthly, and annual summaries related to inventory accuracy.
• Communicate with supporting departments to ensure on-time delivery.
• Act as a liaison between teams and manufacturers in order to achieve established production goals.
• Compile, analyze, and evaluate data to inform financial revenue projections and support an aggressive growth strategy.
• Identify and report on issues and trends. Knowledge of when to escalate for review.
• Contribute to customer and client satisfaction and deliver value to internal and external customers.
• Identify root causes and disconnects to help management develop resolutions to inventory inaccuracies, work order release issues, aircraft cost variances, material flow issues and manufacturing positions with regard to the master production schedule.
• Work closely with applicable entities to coordinate and assist timely and accurate resolutions to associated production and inventory processes.
• Assist with identifying and analyze recurring critical path items to mitigate impacts to the production schedule. Implement solutions to help remove barriers in order to improve production rates. Respond to problem issues from customers and initiate actions to minimize negative impacts.
• Work across manufacturing network to ensure best product cost, quality production and on-time delivery.
• Communicate your findings effectively and follow through to help drive improvements.
• Manage numerous assignments, identify priorities, and exercise good judgment.
• Maintain and improve inventory by analyzing statistics and determining products that sell and that don’t
• Assist with placing inventory orders, tracking shipments, and allocating inventory to the correct department when it arrives.
• Assist with arranging for pickup and shipment of orders
• Perform extensive research on various inventory-related reports, including previous inventory reports and national purchasing trends.

What you'll bring to the table:

• Bachelor's or Graduate's Degree in business, business administration, computer science or information technology, or equivalent experience.
• Comfortable problem solving and decision making using leadership and time management skills.
• Fluent in enterprise resource planning and root cause analysis.
• Demonstrated strong work ethic and strict attention to detail.
• Experience with Netsuite and EDI type platforms
• Able to interface with teams and conduct control testing.
• High-level knowledge of Excel.
• Detail Orientation– Exhibits a high level of accuracy and analytical thinking 
• Organizational Skills– Demonstrates strong organization, prioritizing and managing conflicting demands to meet deadlines.
• Communication– Superb interpersonal and communication skills.  Builds relationships and works collaboratively in a team environment.
• Multicultural Sensitivity– Adept at communicating and building relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds and from various cultures.
• Change Agility– Able to navigate successfully and positively in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where change occurs rapidly.
• Judgment and Decision Making– Considers the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one; looks beyond things accepted as “given” to suggest creative approaches, pulling information from many sources.
• Cultural Fit– Embodies and inspires a positive attitude, in support of our unique culture founded on our Core Values: Own It, Dig In, It Matters, Half-Full!