Inventory Optimization Specialist

The Guitar Center Company; Westlake Village (CA); On-site; USD 34,440 - 41,328; Full time

Job summary

Guitar Center is seeking an Inventory Analyst to support merchandise planners and store planners in optimizing inventory for eCommerce and Retail. The role focuses on minimizing backorders, maximizing inventory turns, and maintaining service levels.

Responsibilities include tracking late PO deliveries, resolving shortages, reviewing in-transit stock, and performing pre-promo inventory checks across web and catalog promotions. Strong collaboration with vendors is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or 4 years of relevant work experience.
• 1 year of relevant work experience.

Responsibilities

• Tracking late PO deliveries, identify issues, and communicate opportunities to team.
• Resolution of shortages, overages and problem shipment issues.
• Review of in-transit products destined for stores and identify relevant issues such as lost product, missed receipts, etc.
• Promotional pre-setup checks such as inventory position prior to promotional in-home dates. This includes all web, catalog promotions, and periodic checks throughout the life of the promotion as well as post promotional analysis.
• Review of open backorders and expediting inventory where necessary.
• Maintaining planned arrival dates on all purchase orders and the expediting of past due orders.
• Applying PO price variance corrections.
• Validation of reserve inventory levels and aged inventory assessment.
• Organization, coordination and execution of vendor returns.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration

Job description

Guitar Center is seeking an Inventory Analyst to support merchandise planners and store planners in optimizing inventory for eCommerce and Retail. The role focuses on minimizing backorders, maximizing inventory turns, and maintaining service levels.

Responsibilities include tracking late PO deliveries, resolving shortages, reviewing in-transit stock, and performing pre-promo inventory checks across web and catalog promotions. Strong collaboration with vendors is required.