Inventory Specialist

Position Summary: Inventory Specialist

Responsible for providing analytics, tracking performance, fulfillment tracking, training, and developing tools and reports that assist Inventory Management and Merchandising teams.

Responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to the following:

• Support Inventory Management team sharing knowledge, documentation of best practices, and providing training of Demand Planning, Assortment Planning, Allocation, Category Planning/Forecasting, Fulfilment, and Replenishment systems and process.

• Collaborate with Category Management and Inventory Management teams to maintain, edit, and publish reports using Excel and MS Access.

• Create ad hoc and exception reports to support executive requests, providing analytics using KPIs and executive summaries that highlight underperforming/underperforming areas.

• Document business process and create supportive training materials

• Champion testing efforts, performing UAT prior to deployment of data fixes, enhancements, and new product releases.

• Escalate system issues, raising tickets with the appropriate team, providing business ranking and priority.

• Support inventory management activities to plan, forecast, and track orders to maximize inventory in-stock rates and fill rates for both DCs and stores.

• Meet deadlines to coordinate system setup for new stores, providing fulfillment tracking of actively ranged SKUs, and provide data entry as needed to coordinate MITs, RTVs, and other transfers.

• Additional duties as assigned.

About Guitar Center

The Guitar Center Company embodies the world of creativity and music by encouraging our teammates to find their own individual sound. Our mission is to develop and nurture lifelong musicians and make a difference in the world by enabling musicians and non-musicians alike to experience the joy that comes from creating music. We believe in putting our customers first, engaging with respect and integrity and fulfilling our mission with passion.

The Guitar Center Company operates through several business divisions. Guitar Center is the world's largest retailer of guitars, amplifiers, drums, keyboards, recording, live sound, DJ, and lighting equipment, with more than 290 stores across the United States.  2014 marked the milestone 50th anniversary of the Guitar Center Company as the organization continues to help people make music from coast to coast.

E-Commerce brands Guitar Center, Musician's Friend and WWBW offer online sales of a broad selection of music products. The Music & Arts division operates more than 220 stores specializing in band & orchestral instruments for sale and rental, serving teachers, band directors, college professors, and students since 1952. AVDG and GCPro headline the enterprise audio-visual integration business, delivering a best-in-class commercial and residential customer experience.