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**Inventory Planner**
Flexible / Operations / Full-time Oliver Space is looking for an Inventory Planner to manage our inventory projections and demand planning, as we expand our footprint across the US. You will own the inventory projections, stock level rebalancing, and inventory performance optimization across our business. This role will partner closely with both our international supply chain teams, growth team and finance team to ensure our overall supply chain is not only efficient but evolves with the growth of the business landscape and navigates a challenging global environment. The ideal candidate is not only passionate about data analysis and inventory management, but also is excited to innovate on our supply chain structure and change the status quo. **What you'll do**
+ Own and manage the quarterly inventory forecasting process by building or working on existing models to analyze category, SKU, and city level demand and suggest purchasing quantities
+ Partner with Growth team and Finance teams to monitor and keep track of topline business assumptions and metrics (i.e. revenue targets, order targets, marketing spend) in order to inform our overall inventory strategy
+ Review stock to sales ratios and respond to changing sales trends to ensure revenue targets are met
+ Understand each cities inventory position and initiate rebalancing work to optimize stock level among all cities
+ Support new city launch inventory decisions by analyzing historical data from existing city and catalog performance
+ Create and maintain an inventory dashboards to visualize our inventory status and keep track of SKU level performance, including developing hypotheses to test
+ Periodically perform pricing analysis and competitor analysis to understand strategic moves
+ Conduct reconciliation and inventory cost allocation work with the Accounting and Finance teams
**What we're looking for**
+ 2-3 years supply chain experience in a professional environment working with manufacturing partners or inside a retail inventory planning environment
+ Strong data & analytical skills. Experienced in building models, running forecasting, and creating projection tools. The data matters, however articulating hypotheses, communicating and innovating is equally important
+ Proactive communication. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to collaborate across diverse multi-functional teams
+ Solid operational skills. Always detail-oriented and demonstrating innovative problem solving and prioritization skills
+ Curiosity to understand all aspects of the business. Our customers behavior, our catalog, and how the supply chain operates should all inform the analysis
+ Sound understanding of database structures and familiarity with SQL and Excel is considered a required technical skill, working knowledge of python is a bonus
New York or San Francisco-based is preferred, this role is open to remote work.
**About Oliver Space (****)**
Oliver Space is reinventing a completely broken home furnishing experience, filled with frustrating delays, no flexibility, and irresponsible waste. Our vision is to build the most trusted platform for consumers to find flexibility and everything they need to make their space feel like home, while maximizing usage of every item and ensuring a more sustainable future. We believe in leveraging thoughtfully designed technology, world-class circular logistics, and hospitality-minded service to achieve that vision.
Our current offering is an end-to-end, flexible furnishing service, highlighted by: - Pay as you go, with option to swap over time - 3-day delivery and assembly - Curated assortment of high quality, in-style products With $40M+ in funding raised to date from top investors, we are a fast-growing, Series B startup. The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, with a semi-decentralized team spread around the US and the globe, and believes great talent can be found anywhere.
We understand the value of developing a team with different perspectives and strive to build a workforce composed of individuals with diverse backgrounds, abilities, minds, and identities that will help us to grow, not only as a company, but also as individuals. Oliver Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer.