Analyst, Inventory Optimization

Join a team focused on optimizing inventory placement across a complex North American fulfillment network, using data and analytics to drive efficiency, improve product flow, and reduce costs. This is a highly collaborative role where you will partner across multiple functions to solve operational challenges, enhance processes, and influence key business decisions.

Our client, one of Vancouver's most sought‑after companies to work for, has global operations and an impeccable reputation.

Our client’s Fulfillment Inventory Management team plays a critical role in maintaining inventory health, optimizing network capacity, enabling strategic inventory placement across the fulfillment network, and ensuring the timely exit of end‑of‑life inventory. They partner closely with a broad range of cross‑functional teams to deliver on investment commitments while governing the processes that support effective inventory management and end‑of‑life execution.

They design and evolve core operational processes, lead governance routines, strengthen organizational connectivity, and generate data‑driven insights that fuel continuous improvement and risk mitigation. Through consistent and scalable governance frameworks, they drive efficient, standardized inventory practices that improve product availability, maximize DC space utilization, and minimize impacts on DC operations. This role will support the inventory placement strategy across the NAM network to optimize product lifecycle and drive cost reductions.

• Analyze large, complex datasets to support inventory placement decisions and track impact on network fulfillment costs.
• Analyze fulfillment and upstream product processes to identify root causes of suboptimal inventory placement and quantify impacts across the fulfillment network.
• Support scenario planning and elevate inventory placement needs through cross‑functional partnership to analyze inventory performance, surface risks, and recommend actionable improvements.
• Enhance existing processes, reporting and management routines.
• Optimize and automate financial and operational models and workflows.

• 2‑3 years of industry, consulting, CPA or equivalent supporting a retail client.
• Experience in a vertically integrated retail company.
• Fulfillment or supply chain experience is an asset.
• Strong analytical, modeling, and problem‑solving skills with ability to consider operational inputs to quantify financial outcomes.
• Experience using PowerBI.

$47‑48.5/hr + 4% vacation pay. If incorporated, please discuss with Swim.

Vancouver. Hybrid working conditions with a minimum of 3 days onsite; most team members work 4 days onsite and 1 remote work day.