816 GPS Services, Inc. is looking for an Inventory Analyst to join our Inventory Management team. In this role, you will bring the financial strategy of our product vision to life by managing the company's largest financial asset: the product. You will drive the success of one or more product categories by creating a financial roadmap and aligning it with brand strategy and customer needs.
What You'll Do
- Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities by division and department.
- Collaborate with Merchandising to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial and product opportunities.
- Create preseason sales, gross margin, and inventory plans by division and department that support product strategies.
- Reconcile top down to bottom up division and department plans.
- Recap and analyze actual sales results to plan, and forecast in-season sales and inventories on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
- Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices, and develop systems knowledge.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with members of the cross-functional team (Merchandising, Visual, Production, Distribution, Planning and Company Planning).
What We're Looking For
- Must love Excel, have strong technical skills, and be systems savvy.
- Believe in the Power of Team; builds constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of business partners.
- Possess strong business acumen and strategic agility, able to handle many projects simultaneously while effectively prioritizing workload.
- Demonstrate strong listening, written and oral communication skills, able to present ideas and directions that rally others to action.
Technical Stack
- Excel
Team & Environment
Part of the Inventory Management team. Works with a cross-functional team including Merchandising, Visual, Production, Distribution, Planning and Company Planning.
