TTS Inventory & Planning Specialist

Position: TTS Inventory & Planning Specialist )
About Us Shark Ninja is a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowed Shark Ninja to enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains.

Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than 4,100 associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world. AI at Shark Ninja At Shark Ninja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly, adopt new tools, and continuously raise what’s possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers.

If you believe the best way to do your job hasn’t been invented yet, you’ll fit right in.

The TTS Inventory & Planning Specialist (UK) owns inventory operations and assortment planning for Shark Ninja's Tik Tok Shop business. Partnering closely with the DTC Inventory & Planning Manager, Ops and category owners, the role keeps the channel stocked against the forecast, spotting out-of-stock risk early and pivoting into viable alternatives, while shaping the range through gap analysis, TTS exclusives and bigger bets on the products with the most upside.

It is a strategic seat rather than a transactional one: building demand scenarios and bet cases that steer buy and phasing decisions, informing the revenue and SKU-level assumptions behind the forecast, and pressure-testing the plan through both a supply lens and a commercial one to protect GM% and ASP.

What you will do:

Own TTS inventory operations end to end, driven by the forecast, live demand and commercial bets, spotting out-of-stock risk ahead of time and pivoting into a viable alternative before sales are lost.  Pressure-test the forecast through a supply lens, avoiding supply risk and pivoting into alternative opportunities, and pressure-test GM% and ASP to protect a healthy channel P&L. Partner with Ops teams, ingesting allocation and stock transfer information and then ensuring the channel has the inventory required to achieve the forecast, keeping DTC/TTS splits aligned and closing gaps with category owners.

This also includes informing the ops teams of expected spikes to ensure warehouse and carrier capacity can be scaled. Identify excess and obsolete stock early and support with building the plan to leverage it (bundling, live-event features, pricing or promotional mechanics), clearing ageing units through the channel while protecting margin. Plan launch volumes for new product introductions: sizing the launch quantity required, phasing stock to the launch strategy and making sure the channel is covered through the critical first weeks of sell-through.

Shape the Tik Tok Shop assortment strategy: identify range gaps, build the case for TTS exclusives and place bigger bets on the products with the most upside, then review whether those bets paid back and feed the learnings into the next round. Build demand scenarios and bet cases that steer range, buy and phasing decisions, and inform the tops-down forecast target, including revenue and SKU-level assumptions and what the channel needs to comp.

Ensure the channel has inventory to scale live commerce: building stock ahead of major live events and peak trading, modelling upside scenarios and making sure availability never caps a breakout moment. Establish clear and consistent planning cadences across the cross-functional group (weekly…