Vendor Analyst - Firearms, Ammunition & Fishing

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for demand planning, forecasting, inventory management, and outdoor recreation? Join Fleet Farm as a Vendor Analyst supporting our Firearms, Ammunition & Fishing categories and play a critical role in ensuring the right products are available at the right time and in the right locations.

In this role, you'll serve as a key link between our merchants, suppliers, inventory teams, distribution centers, and stores. You'll analyze sales and inventory trends, develop SKU-level forecasts, manage purchase orders, monitor supplier performance, and make recommendations that improve product availability and inventory productivity.

We're looking for someone who combines strong analytical and supply chain skills with genuine knowledge of the products and customers in these categories. That knowledge can come from professional experience in retail, buying, merchandising, supply chain, or vendor management—or from personal experience with firearms, ammunition, fishing, hunting, shooting sports, or outdoor recreation.

If you enjoy turning data into action and understand the products and customers behind the numbers, we'd love to hear from you!

• Build strong relationships with suppliers and merchants supporting firearms, ammunition, fishing, and related outdoor categories.
• Partner with suppliers and merchants on forecasts, financial plans, inventory strategies, promotions, and business objectives.
• Communicate expectations, identify issues, and work collaboratively with suppliers to improve performance.

• Develop and maintain SKU-level forecasts using historical sales, seasonality, promotions, market trends, and customer demand.
• Analyze inventory levels and recommend order quantities to balance product availability with inventory investment.
• Identify potential out-of-stocks, overstocks, and slow-moving inventory and develop strategies to address them.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and adjust plans as business conditions change.

• Create and manage purchase orders across hundreds of SKUs.
• Monitor vendor confirmations, lead times, shipments, and order fulfillment.
• Partner with suppliers, distribution centers, and stores to ensure accurate and timely product flow.
• Identify and resolve shortages, delays, and other fulfillment issues.
• Expedite orders when necessary to protect product availability.

• Analyze sales, inventory, margin, turns, sell-through, and service-level performance.
• Identify trends and provide actionable recommendations to merchants and leadership.
• Recommend SKU and assortment changes based on customer demand, sales performance, inventory trends, and regional insights.
• Identify opportunities to improve inventory productivity and reduce excess inventory.

• Support inventory planning around key hunting, fishing, shooting, and outdoor seasons.
• Plan for seasonal transitions, promotional events, and new product launches.
• Anticipate changes in customer demand based on seasonality, promotions, market trends, and category knowledge.
• Develop strategies for discontinued and end-of-life products.

• Execute store allocations and inventory transfers to improve product availability.
• Analyze regional sales patterns to help position inventory where customer demand is strongest.
• Partner with inventory teams and stores to address product availability and inventory imbalances.

• Build and communicate reports covering sales, inventory, forecast accuracy, supplier performance, and service levels.
• Turn data into clear recommendations and business actions.
• Identify trends, exceptions, and…