Inventory Management Coordinator

Job Summary

This role ensures that the inventory levels for all items in the branches are properly assigned to the individual and maintained at acceptable levels, while minimizing supply chain costs to achieve fill rate standards.

This role is a predominantly work-from-home position. However, candidate must reside within a reasonable distance from our Northfield, IL office or Mundelein, IL office.

• Manage stock levels at a branch level in conjunction with Demand planning, Buyer teams, and Product Managers to help ensure customer demand is satisfied.
• Have knowledge of the IM buying process, including requisitions, forecasting and the relationship between vendor lead times, demand, and safety stock.
• Monitor and track inventory levels, service levels, surplus/obsolete inventory, vendor performance, and any other relevant KPIs to identify variance from goals.
• Use all available resources to analyze root causes and recommend possible actions to improve KPI results.
• Identify and understand the relationship of the various stock levels in branches and execute potential stock rebalancing to help mitigate customer backorders.
• Tasks will include vendor PO creation, vendor PO follow-up and resolution of vendor issues, and detailed review of inventory levels for current stocked items in a branch.
• Participate in process improvement projects to drive better efficiencies and yield improvement in KPIs.
• Work with Inbound Operations team on urgent vendor shipments.
• Work with Medline divisions on inventory health status.
• Prepare customer-level inventory for new prime vendor distribution deals launching in your assigned branch.
• Perform root cause backorder analysis on new prime vendor and established account inventory outages.
• Collaborate and partner with key stakeholders in sales and implementation.

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent.
• Relevant
  
  Work Experience:
  
  At least 2 years related experience with Supply Planning, Materials Requirements Planning or related field.
• Experience using inventory or supply planning systems.
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Intermediate level skill in Microsoft business products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, others).
• Ability to analyze data and clearly communicate results and recommended actions to various levels of the organization.
• Ability to work effectively with various stakeholders with differing opinions, and balance trade-offs while focusing on results.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Mathematics, Applied Statistics, or related field.
• Relevant
  
  Work Experience:
  
  Previous experience using SAP.
• Knowledge of database application(s) such as Access.
• Experience with BI or data visualization applications such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience in healthcare or medical supplies manufacturing or distribution.
• Certificate/Licensure: Preferred APICS CPIM or CSCP certification.

The anticipated salary range for this position is $25.00 - $36.25 per hour. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s location, education, experience, skills, and abilities. Medline will not pay less than the applicable minimum wage or salary threshold.

Our benefit package includes health insurance, life and disability, 401(k) contributions, paid time off, etc., for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average. For roles where employees work less than 30 hours per week, benefits include 401(k) contributions, paid time off, as well as access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups and the Employee Service Corp.

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, neurodivergence, protected veteran status, marital or family status, caregiver responsibilities, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.