Inventory Spec II

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Inventory Analyst II manages and optimizes complex inventory and replenishment activities to ensure product availability across multiple locations and channels while balancing service levels, inventory investment, and the risk of excess inventory. This advanced role applies deeper inventory-control expertise, stronger analytical capabilities, and broad business acumen to evaluate sales trends, lead times, supplier performance, seasonal dynamics, and changing business conditions.

The Inventory Analyst II serves as a strategic business partner to Merchandising, Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics, Distribution, and key suppliers. The role leads process improvements, converts complex analysis into actionable recommendations, and exercises increased independent judgement when addressing high-impact inventory challenges. The Inventory Analyst II also provides informal leadership through mentoring, stretch assignments, project ownership, and subject-matter expertise.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Advanced Inventory Management: Oversee inventory performance across multiple channels, locations, or complex product categories, ensuring accurate and timely replenishment while optimizing product availability and inventory productivity.
• Inventory Strategy: Develop and execute inventory and replenishment strategies for high-volume, highly seasonal, strategically important, or otherwise complex businesses, balancing customer-service objectives, sales opportunities, inventory investment, lead-time risk, and excess-inventory exposure.
• Risk Management: Anticipate inventory risks created by changing business dynamics, promotions, assortment changes, supplier constraints, demand volatility, or operational disruptions and develop mitigation plans.
• Advanced Analytics: Conduct in-depth analysis of sales trends, demand patterns, lead times, stock levels, supplier performance, and replenishment effectiveness to identify inefficiencies and opportunities. Perform root-cause analysis on recurring or systemic inventory challenges and recommend sustainable corrective actions.
• Business Insights: Translate complex data sets into clear business insights and recommendations that influence inventory decisions, service levels, inventory productivity, and financial performance. Create and present results, risks, opportunities, and recommend actions to management, senior stakeholders, and cross-functional partners.
• Process Optimization: Identify, design, and implement improvements to replenishment processes, workflows, reporting, system capabilities, and inventory-management practices.
• Project Leadership: Lead inventory-related projects, pilot programs, system enhancements, and cross-functional initiatives from analysis through implementation and adoption. Own stretch assignments that address material business opportunities, ambiguous problems, or needs extending beyond the analyst’s normal portfolio. Define success measures, monitor results, and adjust solutions to deliver measurable and sustainable business value.
• Supplier Leadership: Build and maintain strong relationships with key or strategically important suppliers to improve lead times, availability, cost and service performance.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: partner with management, Merchandising, Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Distribution teams to address complex inventory challenges. Influence stakeholders through fact-based recommendations and clear communication of tradeoffs, and lead or facilitate cross-functional discussions on inventory risks, opportunities, supplier performance, and corrective-action plans.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance, training and mentorship to Inventory Analyst I team members and other junior analysts, and support onboarding and knowledge-sharing activities that establish consistent processes, tools, and operating expectations.
• Subject-Matter Expertise: Serve as a subject-matter expert for replenishment systems, inventory processes, analytical methods, and best practices, and demonstrate informal leadership as a trusted resource during high-priority or complex business situations.
• ALL OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED

EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Analytics, or related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Years of experience:  2+ years of experience in inventory management, supply chain, or replenishment analysis.   

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY:

• Advanced knowledge of supply chain principles, replenishment planning, inventory control, and inventory optimization techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive decision-making.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, ERP or replenishment systems, and data-analysis tools such as Power BI or equivalent.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to understand category dynamics, financial implications, supplier constraints, and customer-service priorities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex information to senior stakeholders.
• Strong project leadership, stakeholder-management, mentoring, and informal leadership capabilities.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and proactively address operational and strategic issues in a fast-paced environment.
• High attention to detail, accountability, and commitment to continuous improvement and measurable results.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

• NA

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Regularly sits and works on a computer.

Seldom/never stands, walks or lifts up to 50 lbs.

 

INDEPENDENT JUDGEMENT:

Performs duties within scope of general company policies, procedures, and objectives. Analyzes problems and performs needs assessments. Uses judgment in adapting broad guidelines to achieve desired result. Regular exercise of independent judgment within accepted practices. Makes recommendations that affect policies, procedures, and practices.

Full Time Benefits Summary:
Enjoy discounts on retail merchandise, our restaurants, world-class resorts and conservation attractions!

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Voluntary benefits
• 401k Retirement Savings
• Paid holidays
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick time
• Bass Pro Cares Fund
• And more!

We will be accepting applications on an ongoing basis.

Bass Pro Shops is an equal opportunity employer.  Hiring decisions are administered without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Reasonable Accommodations

Qualified individuals with known disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit your nearest location or contact us at [email protected].

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