Director - Inventory

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Job Description

As the Director - Inventory, you will be responsible for developing and executing the Inventory Management strategy to optimize investment while providing high-level service to customers. You will develop and drive inventory best practices, collaborating with leadership, stakeholders and business partners.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with other leaders across the supply chain and business to identify new opportunities to drive inventory improvements
• Lead Inventory team to create, implement, and execute inventory optimization plans and programs, developing forecasts for future demand
• Develop standards, metrics, and procedures that maximizes inventory management efficiencies
• Drive cross-functional teams and stakeholder to optimize inventory capabilities and develop best inventory management practices
• Collaborate with business units to build strategic plan that aligns with business goals
• Develop and carry out process improvement initiatives and collaborates with functional areas to identify best practices and process standardization.
• Define standardized KPI's based on industry best practices and ensures that these KPI's are successfully deployed
• Partner with internal/external teams to solve vendor issues, manage vendor changes and plan for product additions
• Act as coach and mentor to support career development plans
• Recruit and develop term, focusing on future leadership potential and succession planning

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree preferred
• 10 years of experience of inventory management, including negotiations and knowledge of key contractual language
• 10 years demonstrated experience collaborating with business operations and functional groups
• 8 years management/supervisory experience
• 8 years of experience leading change management
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to influence individuals and teams with or without reporting relationships
• 10+ years leadership experience with proven ability to formulate and communicate clear vision and sense of direction and mobilize people preferred
• 10+ years of experience organizing and facilitating multidisciplinary teams through structured workshops (strategic session, Kaizens, problem solving sessions) preferred
• 10+ years change management leadership experience including ability to communicate a need for change, create all necessary conditions for successful change and overcome different forms of resistance preferred
• 10+ years proven coaching and training experience including the ability to facilitate team members to develop their skills and abilities to achieve agreed upon objectives preferred
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Wesco International, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates ("Wesco") provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.