Purchasing & Inventory Analyst

Take Your Career to New Heights with Flair Airlines

We’re here to make air travel affordable for everyone, and we’re looking for talented individuals who want to help us continue changing the industry for the better. As Canada’s most reliable airline, we're all about offering real value. As we continue to expand our network, increase flight frequencies, and introduce more services, we’re looking for passionate team members to help us in our mission to make air travel accessible for everyone.

We know who we are, and we’re confident in our approach.

Your Team:

Join Flair’s Buy on Board team, where effective purchasing, planning, and supply management support product availability, cost control, and reliable onboard operations. Reporting to the Director, Buy on Board, the Purchasing & Inventory Analyst is responsible for purchasing activities, demand forecasting, stock planning, and performance analysis for onboard retail products, catering supplies, and operational equipment across the network.

The Purchasing & Inventory Analyst analyzes product performance, forecasts demand, executes purchasing activities, coordinates inter-station transfers, and develops dashboards and reports to support planning and purchasing decisions. Working with internal stakeholders and third-party suppliers, the role helps maintain product availability, reduce waste and stock shortages, improve purchasing decisions, and identify opportunities to strengthen operational efficiency and cost control.

This role is an on-site position based at our Toronto, ON office.

A Day in the Life:

Purchasing & Inventory Management:

• Plan, purchase, and replenish onboard retail products, catering supplies, and operational equipment to support safe, efficient, and cost-effective flight operations.
• Develop demand forecasts using historical sales, flight schedules, seasonal trends, promotional activity, and operational changes to optimize purchasing decisions, inventory levels, and product availability across the network.
• Monitor inventory performance and optimize replenishment strategies to minimize spoilage, excess inventory, stock shortages, inventory carrying costs, and operational disruptions.
• Coordinate inventory transfers between airport stations, catering facilities, and distribution locations to maintain product availability across the network.
• Manage purchase orders, supplier deliveries, and inventory replenishment activities while maintaining effective supplier relationships and resolving purchasing or supply chain issues.
• Monitor supplier performance, including delivery accuracy, service levels, product availability, and contractual compliance, identifying trends and implementing corrective actions where required.
• Perform inventory reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, coordinate physical inventory counts, and support inventory audits to maintain inventory accuracy and regulatory compliance.
• Maintain accurate purchasing, inventory, pricing, supplier, and product master data within inventory management systems, ERP platforms, and related business tools.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and applicable customs, bonded inventory, liquor licensing, food safety, and regulatory requirements.

Analytics, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve inventory, purchasing, and operational dashboards, reports, and business intelligence tools to support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Analyze purchasing, inventory, demand, consumption, spoilage, shrinkage, waste, supplier performance, and other operational data to identify trends, improve forecast accuracy, optimize inventory investment, reduce costs, and enhance operational performance.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs), including inventory accuracy, inventory turnover, product availability, forecast accuracy, supplier on‑time delivery performance, purchase price variance (PPV), inventory shrinkage, product spoilage and waste, inventory carrying costs, and inventory replenishment performance.
• Perform root cause analysis of inventory discrepancies, stock shortages, excess inventory, supplier performance issues, and…