Inventory Analyst

The Inventory Analyst is responsible for maintaining accurate inventory and item master data, preparing operational and management reports, developing dashboards, and supporting inventory planning and analysis across Kuwait and GCC operations.

• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly inventory reports covering stock position, aging, near-expiry and expiry, wastage, variances, turnover, stock coverage, and slow/non-moving items.
• Analyze inventory trends and highlight shortages, excess stock, expiry exposure, abnormal consumption, stock imbalances, and material variances.
• Support the setting and periodic review of Min/Max levels, reorder parameters, safety stock, forecasting inputs, and inventory-planning assumptions in coordination with Supply Chain, Procurement, Warehouse, and Operations.
• Provide accurate analysis for inventory actions, including replenishment, redistribution, liquidation, write-off review, cycle counting, and corrective measures.
• Master data management
• Create, maintain, and update item/SKU codes and master data, including item descriptions, UOM, pack size, category, brand, specifications, shelf life, storage requirements, and relevant planning attributes.
• Maintain inventory master data across ERP, SUPY, and approved reporting systems, ensuring controlled changes and alignment with Finance, Procurement, Warehouse, and Operations.
• Perform data-quality checks and coordinate resolution of duplicate items, incorrect descriptions, inconsistent UOMs, pack-size errors, inactive items, mapping issues, and system discrepancies.
• Maintain clear documentation of data changes, approvals, effective dates, ownership, and dependencies.
• GCC Item Unification Project
• Coordinate the GCC-wide Item Unification Project to establish a common item structure, standardized descriptions, UOMs, pack sizes, categories, brands, specifications, and item-status rules across markets.
• Create and maintain the project mapping between existing country items and unified GCC items, identifying duplicates, near-duplicates, obsolete items, conversion factors, and unresolved exceptions.
• Work with regional Supply Chain, Procurement, Warehouse, Finance, IT, Operations, and other data owners to validate proposed unified items and secure timely approvals.
• Maintain the project tracker, issue log, decision register, data dictionary, implementation milestones, and market sign-offs; elevate delays, conflicting requirements, and material data risks.
• Support controlled implementation, user communication, testing, reconciliation, and post-implementation validation to ensure reporting and transaction integrity are preserved.
• Reporting, dashboards, and automation
• Develop and maintain Excel dashboards and management reports for inventory, aging, expiry, wastage, variances, turnover, stock coverage, and master-data quality.
• Ensure reports are accurate, timely, clearly defined, and based on approved data sources and calculation logic.
• Identify opportunities for reporting automation, improved data flow, reduced manual effort, and better visibility of inventory risks and actions.
• Provide ad hoc analysis and management insights when required, with clear assumptions, conclusions, and recommended actions.