Inventory Optimization Manager

Responsibilities

• Execute the inventory optimization program, ensure transactional discipline, inventory accuracy across the manufacturing footprint, and workplace organization best practices in the areas we store inventory.
• Drive accountability through root cause analysis and put fixes in place to prevent recurrence.
• Provide direction to the inventory team, ensuring accuracy of inventory transactions, inventory accuracy, and organization of warehouses inside and outside the plants.
• Effectively deploy inventory policies across the Pipeline Optimization organization (Western Hemisphere).
• Review all inventory policies and collaborate with key stakeholders to modify or create new policies to achieve inventory targets.
• Establish a routine of reviewing E&O inventory at regular intervals.
• Ensure that the parameters in the MRP/ERP system are correct.
• Communicate clearly on the impacts to the balance sheet and profit and loss (P&L).
• Effectively manage the inventory lifecycle.
• Maintain inventory accuracy of 97% or better on routine cycle counts and half/full year inventory counts.
• Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering and/or Production to ensure all Bills of Material (BOMs) and routes are properly set up in our ERP system.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Finance/Accounting, and Manufacturing/Services to standardize how inventory is classified.
• Transform and standardize inventory locations to world‑class standards.
• Work with plant and service center leaders to align on world‑class inventory storage locations.
• Establish an audit system with buy‑in from each location’s leadership.
• Establish and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) at least monthly.
• Conduct audits of storage locations and communicate feedback to plant leadership teams at each manufacturing site.

• Analytical and strong financial background preferred.
• Strategic thinker who manages beyond day‑to‑day to identify and solve systemic problems.
• Leads and influences, coaches teams on analytics‑driven decision making, and champions a data‑driven culture while maintaining trust.
• Systems thinker who sees inventory as part of an integrated system, anticipates downstream impacts, and optimizes inventory at the enterprise level.
• Resourceful, using creativity to find solutions and operating with resilience during downturns, supply shocks, or rapid growth.
• Previous experience in a manufacturing or services environment required.
• B.S. in business or equivalent experience.