Inventory Planner

Armada • Pittsburgh, PA

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

SUMMARY The Inventory Planner is responsible for ensuring product availability that delivers exceptional service to customers while optimizing capacity utilization across facilities and supporting financial performance through effective balance sheet management and improved turn. This role focuses on establishing and maintaining the right inventory levels—including safety stock in select scenarios—and improving overall inventory quality by minimizing slow-moving, obsolete, and expired products. Within the Inventory Management department, the Inventory Planner collaborates with both Supply and Demand Planners to achieve goals. Outside of the department, the Inventory Planner partners closely with Warehouse Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain Engineering teams to support a reliable, efficient, and customer-centric supply chain.

Requirements

• Minimum: 2-4 years of inventory management experience and/or proven mastery of business analytics as it relates to inventory management
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Logistics, Supply Chain, or other relevant experience
• Strong analytical abilities and attention to detail
• Experience using inventory management software (i.e. Blue Yonder Demand and Fulfill, SAP, etc)
• Experience using business intelligence applications to pull data, build reports and make business decisions/recommendations (i.e. Power BI, COGNOS)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to interact cross-functionally, with higher-level management, and with external clients
• Ability to set priorities and make decisions in a dynamic work environment
• Action oriented, with good problem solving, analytical, and math skills
• Ability to lead without authority to achieve a common goal across teams
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (i.e. Teams, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneNote)

Nice To Haves

• Experience in product redistribution
• Experience in Supply and Demand Planning
• Experience guiding projects and process development skills
• Experience planning product with shelf life (i.e. perishables such as food)
• Experience planning product with varied lead times (i.e. international as well as domestic suppliers)
• Experience planning promotional product and limited time offerings

Responsibilities

• Analyze and project inventory levels, in multiple temp zones, for multiple customers across Armada’s warehouse facilities.
• Proactively identify potential capacity constraints and lead cross-functional efforts to minimize operational.
• Monitor inbound and outbound flows to prevent capacity bottlenecks and enable efficient operations.
• Recommend adjustments to inventory strategy (timing, quantities, replenishment frequency) based on facility constraints and throughput capabilities.
• Partner with Supply Planners, Demand Planners, Engineering, and Warehouse Operations to improve space utilization, reduce congestion, and maintain smooth product flow.
• Analyze, classify and segment inventory to meet financial targets for working capital, turns, and overall balance sheet performance.
• Partner with Supply Planning to implement strategies to reduce excess, aged, and obsolete inventory while protecting customer service.
• Support Inventory Management’s Monthly Business Review processes as needed.
• Provide insights on inventory investment needs to support growth, product launches, and seasonal demand.
• Assess unique margin scenarios and recommend ideal product candidates
• Analyze and recommend safety stock levels that balance customer service with responsible inventory investment and efficient warehouse capacity.
• Partner with Demand Planners to refine safety stock models by leveraging Armada’s inventory management system.
• Monitor actual results versus targets to ensure safety stock is effective and appropriately scaled to business conditions.
• Develop and implement statistically driven safety stock strategies based on analysis and systemic expertise
• Partner with BI and IT to generate, interpret, and communicate inventory and service-related reports that drive business decisions.
• Present insights and recommendations to partners leadership in a clear, data-driven manner.
• Leverage data to align and lead inventory related strategies inside and outside of the Inventory Management Department

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level