Inventory Analyst

Do you bring 3+ years’ experience in manipulating data using in Excel? Are you an expert in Excel?

Imagine a job with an excellent long-term career growth potential with a very large National B2B electrical products distributor with over 10 locations in Ontario. A Permanent opportunity in Brampton Head-office with full benefits.

Summary

We are searching for a Data Analytics Professional to become our Inventory Manager. You will ensure our product offerings meet market needs, forecasting, and create insights into the inventory data for decision making purposes.

Send me your resume, Rick @ oslerhr.ca

What you will be doing

• Inventory levels; minimizing out of stock risk and aged inventory, including seasonality.

• Assessing Customer fill rate.

• Assessing inventory to identify stale SKUs

• Maintain action plan to reduce slow moving inventory

• Ensure proper FIFO rotation of inventory

• Vendor Analysis

• Serve as a primary internal contact for supply chain, logistics and ordering processes, ensuring. optimal inventory and order management.

• Own reporting and tools to support the Customer Supply Chain Manager.

Are you qualified? We hope so. We require this:

• 3 years experience in a similar role (Purchasing, Sales, Product Management, Vendor Relations)

• Inventory Experience – Must Have

• Purchasing Experience – Must Have

• Electrical Supplies product knowledge or industry experience – Must Have

• Strong MS Excel experience – Must have (Pivot tables, v-lookups, formulas, importing data, data manipulation) including MS Power BI

• Inventory Management Systems experience

• Self-starter who is driven by data analysis

• Solid analytical and interpersonal skills are a must

• Excellent communication, relationship building, and collaboration skills

Do you also have these additional desired skills and experiences?

• College diploma or certificate a definite advantage!

• SCMP / PMAC accreditation (or in-progress)

Compensation

• Very competitive Base Salary and Productive Bonus plan. Flexible Group Benefits including medical with Vision Plan, Pension, Education support, and a joint Investment Plan.

Perks

• Flexible Group Benefits: Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D), short-term disability (STD), long-term disability (LTD) insurance, extended health care, dental coverage

• Bonus Program

• Employee Assistance Program

• RRSP - employee contribution up to a maximum of 3.5% of your regular earnings

Covid-19 Work Practices

During the duration of this pandemic, a large portion of this role is work-from-home. However, training and on-boarding will be conducted on-site following usual precautions. Weekly in-office attendance is also required as needed. Interviews are virtual, with one in-office final interview.

Why our client?

Our client is a Business-to-Business (B2B) distributor of electrical supplies. They are the products and services source for electrical professionals whether they are building, renovating or maintaining Canada’s homes, businesses, factories and infrastructure. They have over 100 branches in six provinces and 1500+ dynamic employees.