Inventory Specialist

Strategic Advantage Inc; Newport News (VA); On-site; USD 43,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Mentorship

Job summary

Strategic Advantage Inc in Newport News, VA is seeking an Inventory Specialist to drive inventory optimization, Kanban processes, and cross-functional collaboration. The role targets projects with a hands-on start and growth within a team that ships quickly.

You will be involved in forecasting, process improvements, and ensuring alignment with finance, marketing, and product for shared business outcomes. This position offers mentorship and straightforward Newport News hours.

Qualifications

• 1+ years hands-on experience in a business role
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
• A collaborator who makes the junior review feel less like an exam

Responsibilities

• Rebuild a target that the VA team stopped believing in
• Align go-to-market plans with broader Strategic Advantage Inc commercial strategy
• Decide which Newport News accounts get the white-glove treatment and why
• Present findings and recommendations to junior stakeholders with clarity
• Audit existing processes and recommend high-impact improvements
• Own the S&OP model that everyone quietly trusts to forecast next quarter
• Decide the one number this quarter's business effort lives or dies by
• Partner with finance, marketing, and product to align on shared business outcomes

Skills

Inventory management

Stakeholder communication

Collaboration

Defend recommendations

Job description

Operations here are good; we hired an Inventory Specialist because good is a starting line, and Kanban is how we cross the next one. At Strategic Advantage Inc, a contract Inventory Specialist earns $43,000 - $69,000, owns meaningful projects, and grows with a team that ships fast.

Key Responsibilities

• Rebuild a target that the VA team stopped believing in
• Align go-to-market plans with broader Strategic Advantage Inc commercial strategy
• Decide which Newport News accounts get the white-glove treatment and why
• Present findings and recommendations to junior stakeholders with clarity
• Audit existing processes and recommend high-impact improvements
• Own the S&OP model that everyone quietly trusts to forecast next quarter
• Decide the one number this quarter's business effort lives or dies by
• Partner with finance, marketing, and product to align on shared business outcomes

What You'll Bring

• Around 1+ years of hands-on experience in a business role
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
• A collaborator who makes the junior review feel less like an exam

Long before business was fashionable, Strategic Advantage Inc was already solving it for businesses scattered across VA. Trust, transparency, and steady momentum are the three things we protect above all else.

You will grow fastest here, with $43,000 - $69,000, a mentor, benefits, and flexible Newport News, VA hours clearing the runway in front of you.

This Newport News, VA opening is current, active, and reviewing folks now.