Inventory Data Analyst: Dashboards, Forecasts & Insights

Motion; Birmingham, Northern (AL, KY); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Industries seeks an Inventory Data Analyst to optimize inventory across locations and maximize profits and service levels. You will partner with field leadership to enforce policies, analyze data, and create dashboards to reveal insights and drive improvements.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, data governance, and forecasting, with responsibilities ranging from building simulation models to delivering reports and training teams on new inventory disciplines.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in business, statistics, analytics, or equivalent field work experience.
• Experience managing projects.
• Background in quantitative thinking and statistical data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Enforces Motion's inventory policies and procedures in daily communication with field leadership.
• Understands data governance and control distribution of company inventory data points.
• Ensures full compliance of audit policies of Obsolescence Program and Physical Inventory / DC Mock Inventory.
• Finds new insights and trends which helps identify and solve complicated supply chain problems.
• Creates automatic dashboards using current or future tools.
• Collaborates with all areas of the supply chain to identify and understand inventory opportunities.
• Builds simulation models which forecast outcomes of changes to policies or procedures.
• Delivers comprehensive reports in a presentation or written.
• Works with the IT Department to enhance current and future inventory systems.
• Creates and delivers critical inventory trainings.
• Supports excess inventory initiatives.
• Participants in the annual inventory business plan.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Microsoft Access

Excel

SQL

Analytical thinking

Presentation skills

PowerPoint design

Tableau

Power BI

Qlik

BI tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, statistics or analytics

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Qlik

Excel

SQL

Microsoft Access

PowerPoint

Job description

Motion Industries seeks an Inventory Data Analyst to optimize inventory across locations and maximize profits and service levels. You will partner with field leadership to enforce policies, analyze data, and create dashboards to reveal insights and drive improvements.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, data governance, and forecasting, with responsibilities ranging from building simulation models to delivering reports and training teams on new inventory disciplines.