Inventory Analyst

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As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. We’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

The base salary for this role ranges between $55,100 - $86,680, with eligibility for an incentive target of 5% which is contingent upon achieving both individual and company performance objectives.

The pay range above is not a guarantee of compensation but reflects the potential total compensation for this role at the time of this posting based on the assigned job grade. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as geographic work location, relevant experience and individual skills. The stated range is a reasonable estimate and may change over time; final compensation may fall above or below the range provided.

Grainger reserves the right to amend, modify, or discontinue its compensation and benefits programs at any time, in accordance with applicable law.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy.

The Inventory team at Grainger Canada manages over 500K Stock Keeping Units and $170 million across multiple distribution centres, branches, and on‑sites across Canada. Our primary responsibility is to have the right product in the right place for customers, strategically balancing capital and OPEX investment of inventory dollars, labour and holding space. The Inventory Analyst will be responsible for the daily execution and continuous improvement of inventory planning processes and policies within one of the central Inventory teams.

This position is located at our Thornhill/Markham, ON office location working hybrid in the office 2-3 days per week.

• Be accountable for functional expertise over select planning areas within the system for specific business policies and procedures, as assigned:
  • Demand Capture
  • Demand Management
  • Forecasting
  • Measuring/Reporting OPM
  • Maintain Inventory Planning Tables
  • DRP/Deployment
  • Stocking Policy
• Based on the specific assigned area of ownership, the Analyst will:
  • Build and maintain relationships with Supply Chain partners to develop building‑specific strategies, identify constraints, and recommend and execute solutions to meet performance metric goals and support long‑term supply chain objectives.
  • Ensure that lost demand is correctly accounted for in the demand history.
  • Maintain item level data and categorization of items as eligible for stocking / non‑stocking product for the business.
  • Execute the process to transition items between stock and non‑stock positions.
  • Ensure discretionary inventory investments are properly recorded and maintained.
• Collect demand history, while ensuring that it is aggregated and filtered to enable effective forecasting.
  • Keep current all values for Economic Order Quantities and Inbound Multiples.
  • Generate all systems recommendations for stock level changes for the network.
• Screen and manage demand records and manage item deployment processes. Perform system maintenance and maintain master data within planning areas and processes, as needed.
  • Review and analyses planning data to prepare reports for management review.
  • Perform ad‑hoc analyses as needed.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or equivalent required
• 2+ years experience in Supply Chain required
• Proficiency in SQL and python is required.
• Strong analytic fundamentals, proficiency in analysing large data sets to solve problems
• Understanding of key financial, customer service and supply chain metrics
• Ability to influence without authority
• Uses data and analytics to tell the story to relevant business leaders
• Project Management and continuous…