Inventory Control Analyst
Role Overview
Supports a healthcare system by maintaining sufficient medical-product inventory, aligning supply with patient-care needs, and minimizing inventory investment.
Maintains inventory procedures, supply planning, demand forecasts, inventory records, usage history, and forecasting files.
Provides departments with product and service information and helps resolve product-related issues.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Supports a healthcare system by maintaining sufficient medical-product inventory, aligning supply with patient-care needs, and minimizing inventory investment.
Maintains inventory procedures, supply planning, demand forecasts, inventory records, usage history, and forecasting files.
Provides departments with product and service information and helps resolve product-related issues.
Key responsibilities
- Monitor healthcare inventory controls and use planning and forecasting to balance supply, patient-care needs, and costs.
- Update demand plans, release replenishment orders to the ERP system, and mitigate stockouts with safety stock or substitutions.
- Coordinate product conversions, returns, and recalls while maintaining accurate inventory and supporting patient safety.
- Investigate inventory discrepancies and workflow issues across warehouse and off-site healthcare locations.
- Analyze inventory health and anomalies, recommend actions, and collaborate across supply-chain and healthcare teams to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
- Assist with onsite operational projects as needed.
Required qualifications
- 2–3 years of analysis experience in inventory management, product/category management, or retail forecasting.
- Mastery of supply-chain KPIs and supply-chain experience in partnership with relevant functions.
- Solid understanding of master data and databases, WMS, and ERP systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain, logistics, transportation, business, or a related field.
Preferred skills
- Healthcare supply-chain knowledge in inventory control, forecasting, and supply planning is preferred.
- ERP systems and inventory data analytics experience are preferred.
- Relevant current certification from a listed supply-chain, logistics, forecasting, project-management, or process-excellence organization is preferred.
Workplace
- The posting identifies a hybrid option and also mentions onsite operational projects as needed.
Schedule
- Full-time, day-rotation position; no weekend, holiday, or call obligation is listed.
Compensation
- Structured salary information gives an hourly pay range of $27–$41. The description also lists a compensation range of $57,345.60–$86,028.80 without a stated cadence.
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