Inventory Specialist

DE Shaw; Gulfport (MS); Remote; USD 62,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Job summary

DE Shaw is hiring a remote Inventory Specialist in Gulfport, MS, offering a competitive salary and full benefits. You will lead budgeting cycles, optimize categories, and drive improvements across the supply chain from a Gulfport base.

The role requires 4+ years in category management, resilience across multiple business cycles, and the ability to defend recommendations to leadership. A growth-oriented, scrappy mindset is valued at DE Shaw.

Qualifications

• 4+ years putting Category Management to work in a business setting.
• Experience in Reverse Logistics and related processes.
• Ability to defend recommendations to stakeholders.
• Resilience across 3+ years of business cycles.
• Adaptability and scrappy mindset when requirements shift.

Responsibilities

• Oversee budgeting cycles and hold teams accountable to spending targets.
• Decide what a mid-level role should own and where the seams go.
• Audit existing processes and recommend high-impact improvements.
• Evaluate new initiatives through ROI analyses and business cases.
• Prepare board-ready presentations and quarterly reviews.
• Deliver weekly performance summaries to keep leadership informed.
• Build relationships with key accounts to drive long-term value.
• Reforecast mid-quarter when MS numbers diverge from plan.

Skills

Reverse Logistics

Budgeting

Category Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Job description

DE Shaw runs on hunches less these days, which is exactly why we're opening this remote Inventory Specialist seat in Gulfport, MS. You supply 5 years and Reverse Logistics; DE Shaw supplies $62,000 - $83,000, a Gulfport home, and growth that does not flatten out.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee budgeting cycles and hold teams accountable to spending targets
• Decide what a mid-level role should own and where the seams go
• Audit existing processes and recommend high-impact improvements
• Evaluate new initiatives through rigorous business cases and ROI analysis
• Prepare board-ready presentations and quarterly business reviews
• Deliver weekly performance summaries that keep leadership informed
• Build relationships with key accounts to drive long-term value
• Reforecast mid-quarter when the MS numbers stop matching the plan

What You'll Bring

• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• Resilience measured across 3 years of business cycles
• A DE Shaw mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow
• 4+ years putting Category Management to work in a business setting
• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
• Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before

Plenty of firms claim to do business; DE Shaw actually does it, and from Gulfport no less, with a people-centered stubbornness about quality. We swap Decision Making and Tableau tips over lunch because nobody here pretends to know it all.

Think competitive $62,000 - $83,000, full benefits, a clear runway to grow your Persuasion, and the latitude to work the way you work best.

Hiring as we speak in Gulfport, with daily reviews still underway.