Inventory Analyst

INVENTORY ANALYST (HYDROJUG) — HEALTH / AGED / REPORTING Reports to: Jessica Jensen, Director of Inventory ABOUT THE ROLE You are the inventory analyst dedicated to HydroJug — the core drinkware brand. Where the Acta + Puressentials Analyst handles brand-specific inventory complexity, you handle the HJ-wide inventory infrastructure: the daily inventory health dashboard, aged inventory tracking, write-down recommendations, and the planning/budgeting/reporting layer that feeds S&OP and Finance. Today this work is underdeveloped or split across multiple people. Inventory drift becomes a silent margin leak — aged inventory accumulates, stockouts surprise the business, write-downs land at year-end as bad-news discoveries instead of planned events. Your job is to make all of that visible, current, and decision-ready. You report to Jessica Jensen (Director of Inventory) and partner closely with the Director of Planning & S&OP (open hire — your skip-level once filled), the Allocation Specialist (Laszlo Steffensen), the demand planning bench, and Finance. RESPONSIBILITIES Daily inventory health: Daily inventory health dashboard refresh — HJ core brand SKUs Stockout risk monitoring + proactive flagging (before stockouts happen, not after) Overstock identification + early-warning to Demand Planning Allocation policy interpretation support — partner with the Allocation Specialist when judgment calls happen Aged inventory + disposition: Aged inventory tracking (>90 / 180 / 365 days) Markdown / liquidation candidate identification Write-down recommendations to Finance (Aaron Davis's team) Cycle count coordination with Warehouse Quarterly aged-inventory clearance cadence Weekly Inventory Review meeting pre-read + outputs Monthly inventory health into S&OP forum Annual inventory plan + budget input Brand-comparison reporting (HJ + Acta + Purelyte together) — partnered with the Acta+Purelyte Analyst on the multi-brand views SUCCESS CRITERIA First 30 days 1:1s with Jessica, the Demand Planning bench, Laszlo Steffensen (Allocation), and Finance counterparts. You've audited current inventory reporting state: what's daily/weekly/monthly today, what's missing, where the data lives (NetSuite, BigQuery, Shopify, retailer reports). You have NOT proposed new dashboards yet. First 90 days Daily inventory health dashboard is current and visible to the business. Aged inventory report is being produced weekly, with markdown/disposition candidates flowing to Sales + Marketing. Weekly Inventory Review meeting has a working agenda + decision capture (you co-own this with Jessica). Stockout risk flagging is preventing — not just reporting — stockouts. First 6 months Aged inventory cleared on quarterly cadence; the business knows what's on the chopping block 8 weeks before it hits. Year-end write-down forecast is built and tracking — no more year-end surprises. Finance trusts the inventory data flowing into their planning. The CFO has current numbers. Jessica is freed from reporting + analytics work and is focused on policy + PLM. First 12 months Inventory health is no longer a data-and-reporting gap; it's a working system. The S&OP forum runs on inventory data you produce — clean, current, decision-ready. You've earned the conversation about scope expansion (potentially a Sr. Inventory Analyst title or broader reporting ownership across brands). QUALIFICATIONS 1. Make the invisible visible. Inventory drift is a silent killer. Your job is to make aged inventory + stockout risk + overstock visible before they become problems, not after. Dashboard discipline is the work. 2. Current beats perfect. A daily dashboard that's 95% accurate beats a weekly one that's 100% accurate. Until the Systems BA bench is fully built, you'll be working with imperfect data sources — accept that, drive the discipline of current. 3. You free Jessica to do policy work. Today Jessica owns inventory policy + PLM + health + reporting all together. With you in seat, she gets to focus on policy + PLM (the higher-leverage work) while you own the health + aged + reporting layer. Don't be precious about ownership — be precious about clean handoffs. 4. Partner with the Acta + Purelyte Analyst. They own brand inventory; you own HJ inventory + multi-brand reporting. Together you give Jessica the full picture. Coordinate weekly so the multi-brand views are coherent. 5. Finance is your second-closest partner. Write-down forecasting, year-end planning, aged-inventory accounting — these run through Finance. Build that relationship early. 6. The Director of Planning & S&OP (when filled) is your skip-level. Your inventory data feeds the S&OP forum. Make sure what flows up is clean. 7. Lean is the operating system. HJ has chosen 2 Inventory Analysts (you + the Acta+Purelyte Analyst) + 1 Director (Jessica). That's the bench. Make it work. If demand legitimately exceeds capacity, surface it with data. ABOUT HYDROJUG, INC. HydroJug, Inc. is a consumer brand headquartered in Ogden, Utah, designing and selling premium hydration and lifestyle products through direct-to-consumer and major retail channels. #J-18808-Ljbffr