Inventory Operations Analyst

About Barnes & Noble

Compensation

• The role lists an annual salary range of 60,000 to 68,000 USD, depending on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law.

Role overview

Position responsibilities

• Oversee special-order workload, including new releases, priority items, and author events; adjust distribution center-to-store allocations to meet in-store dates and fill-rate goals while controlling freight costs.
• Solve daily inventory receiving and quality-control problems.
• Organize merchandise remediation, rollouts, destruction or MOS, price ticketing, and stock-balancing projects; initiate cost recovery where appropriate.
• Address vendor operational non-compliance and work with Merchandising on timely launches of priority items, initiatives, and new product types.
• Analyze data and processes; create reports, process maps, and visualizations of bottlenecks, costs, labor waste, and improvement opportunities.
• Resolve Customer Service, ICS, and head-office escalations involving distribution center inventory and shipments; improve receiving and shipping efficiency.
• Create and modify tools to recommend actions during high-volume periods.
• Manage merchandise processes for new and closing stores, ensuring outbound accuracy and timeliness.
• Meet Business Development special-handling order needs and communicate exceptions.
• Contribute to vendor operational guidelines and procedures that improve compliance and efficiency.
• Identify obsolete and surplus inventory with merchant approval and determine exit strategies, including bulk or individual sale, donation, or used-book annex.

Position requirements

• Exercise sound judgment and solve problems effectively.
• Collaborate with others, follow up to complete work accurately and promptly, and remain team-oriented and customer-focused.
• Contribute professionally in meetings with cross-functional partners and vendors, in person or virtually.
• Prioritize and multitask; work with urgency while maintaining high quality standards.
• Follow safety protocols and foster a safe work environment.
• Work on the warehouse floor, including regular lifting and bending.