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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in inventory management and optimization, with a focus on strategic inventory builds, working capital improvement, and cross-functional collaboration. Proficient in leveraging AI and analytics to drive actionable insights and measurable performance improvements in complex manufacturing environments.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Inventory ManagementSupply Chain AnalyticsAI-Enabled Inventory OptimizationSAP IBPAPICS CPIM Certification
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Hard Skills
Inventory OptimizationSupply PlanningProduction PlanningS&OPData AnalyticsRoot-Cause AnalysisSafety-Stock OptimizationStocking PoliciesFinancial VisibilityChange Leadership
Soft Skills
Analytical SkillsProblem-SolvingCommunicationFacilitationInfluencing
Tools & Technologies
SAPPower BIData VisualizationWorkflow AutomationDigital Supply-Chain Solutions
Certifications & Qualifications
APICS CPIMAPICS CSCP
Industry Keywords
Inventory SegmentationSLOB ReductionWorking CapitalManufacturing EnvironmentComplex Global Manufacturing
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own and execute the Health & Biosciences inventory optimization roadmap across business units, regions, sites, product families, and inventory categories
- Translate inventory and working-capital objectives into prioritized actions with owners, due dates, expected benefits, residual risks, and escalation paths
- Maintain an integrated view of finished goods, semi-finished goods, raw materials, inventory in transit, blocked stock, excess inventory, and inventory tail
- Lead governance and execution for slow-moving, obsolete, and excess inventory (SLOB)
- Conduct root-cause analysis, prevention, disposition, value recovery, action follow-through, and verification of sustained improvements
- Improve inventory segmentation, stocking strategies, safety stocks, inventory policies, and planning parameters
- Improve deployment and reduce inventory imbalances across plants, distribution centers, and regions
- Ensure strategic inventory builds and stocking changes have clear business rationale, financial visibility, governance, and accountable ownership
- Serve as the H&B business owner and functional partner for AI, analytics, and automation initiatives
- Shape use cases, define business requirements, test solutions, prioritize enhancements, and translate model outputs into practical inventory actions
- Establish decision-focused inventory reviews and integrate priorities into weekly S&OE, monthly SIOP, and the broader H&B operating system
- Partner with Finance to validate working-capital improvement, scrap reduction, margin recovery, and other financial outcomes
- Identify recurring causes of excess inventory and build repeatable standards that prevent recurrence
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, Data Analytics, or a related field
- Substantial experience in inventory management, inventory optimization, supply planning, materials planning, production planning, IBP, S&OP, or supply-chain analytics within a complex manufacturing environment
- Demonstrated record of measurable improvements in working capital, inventory, SLOB, scrap, or inventory-tail performance
- Deep understanding of inventory strategy, segmentation, safety-stock optimization, stocking policies, planning parameters, and service-level trade-offs
- Ability to work independently, create structure in ambiguous situations, set priorities, and drive actions to closure with limited supervision
- Ability to influence and mobilize cross-functional teams in a global matrix environment without direct authority
- Hands-on experience partnering with technical teams on AI, advanced analytics, automation, or digital supply-chain solutions
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, and change-leadership skills
- Professional proficiency in English
- Experience implementing AI-enabled inventory optimization, control-tower, forecasting, exception-management, SLOB-reduction, or working-capital solutions is a plus
- Experience with SAP, SAP IBP, Power BI, data visualization, workflow automation, or related technologies is a plus
- APICS CPIM, CSCP, or comparable certification is a plus
- Experience facilitating S&OE, SIOP, or IBP operating rhythms in complex global manufacturing environments is a plus
Benefits
Comp & perks- Inclusive workplace focused on diversity and inclusion
- Opportunity to work with a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, taste, scent, and nutrition
- Autonomy to set priorities and challenge decisions constructively
- Opportunity to shape AI, advanced analytics, and automation applications in supply-chain decisions
- Cross-functional collaboration across Demand and Supply Planning, Manufacturing, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, Logistics, Quality, Digital, Data Science, and Automation teams
- Opportunity to build scalable inventory-management standards and operating rhythms
- Visible, enterprise-wide inventory agenda with accountability for measurable results