Director - Inventory
Wesco, Bracknell, Bracknell Forest
Director - Inventory
Salary Not Specified
Wesco, Bracknell, Bracknell Forest
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 6 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 9c4f0c9791874998b24f469c26ff8e4d
Full 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.,
- 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
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%
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