Inventory Management Analyst

Job Description

McLane is one of the largest and most stable supply chain services leaders in the United States. We've been at the forefront of delivering retail and restaurant solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores, and chain restaurants for over 125 years. Our mission is to be an agile, innovative, and unified supply chain partner that delivers a superior customer experience, improves the lives of our teammates and community, and produces best-in-class returns.

The Inventory Management Analyst promotes and maintains a unified policy to systematically coordinate the components of cost and price to produce a system of price information that is ethically monitored and applied to the customer.

• Day 1 Benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA/HSA, and company-paid life insurance
• Paid holidays, earn vacation time, and sick leave accrual from day one.
• 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan after 90 days.
• Additional benefits: pet insurance, maternity/paternity leave, employee assistance programs, discount programs, tuition reimbursement program, and more!

• Considering the limitations of a concept's distribution agreement and cost methodology, independently evaluate when a price change is significant and determine the optimum point to process the change through analysis of each items inventory position so that the maximum amount of inventory profit and the least amount of inventory loss is realized.
• Interpret contracts and other pertinent documents for extraction of cost information necessary to assure system validity and purchase order integrity.
• Supply direction to the buyers for purchase order placement recommendations so that potential shortfalls in inventory revaluation is minimized and potential windfalls are maximized.
• Resolve invoice to purchase order inconsistencies through the receipt of confirmations and invoice discrepancies by determining the cause and initiate actions necessary to prevent future inconsistencies.
• Research, resolve and approve vendor pay back requests.
• Research, resolve and approve customer pay back and audit requests.
• Maintain a high level of accuracy in all cost/price fields so that profitability can be measured and maintained.
• Make recommendations for the continuous development of processes, procedures and reports that support the unified policy to systematically ensure the validity and integrity for all screens/fields/reports that are within the Inventory Management departments area of responsibility.
• Interact with the Supply Chain Services and Accounting departments as well as customers and vendors.
• Self-organize assignments to effectively and efficiently make the best use of resources.
• Supply back-up resource when and where needed.

• Have a high school diploma or equivalent; a college degree is preferred.
• Have 2 years of purchasing, inventory and cost accounting processes.
• Well versed in Microsoft Office programs, specifically Excel.
• Effective communication skills and ability to multitask.
• Ability to work independently, with minimum supervision.

• Office environment.