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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.\nThe 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.\nESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:\nAdvanced 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.\nInventory 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.\nRisk Management: Anticipate inventory risks created by changing business dynamics, promotions, assortment changes, supplier constraints, demand volatility, or operational disruptions and develop mitigation plans.\nAdvanced 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.\nBusiness 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.\nProcess Optimization: Identify, design, and implement improvements to replenishment processes, workflows, reporting, system capabilities, and inventory-management practices.\nProject 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.\nSupplier Leadership: Build and maintain strong relationships with key or strategically important suppliers to improve lead times, availability, cost and service performance.\nCross-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.\nMentorship: 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.\nSubject-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.\nALL OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED\nEXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:\nMinimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degreein Supply Chain Management, Business, Analytics, or related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.\nYears of experience: 2+ years of experience in inventory management, supply chain, or replenishment analysis. \nKNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY: \nAdvanced knowledge of supply chain principles, replenishment planning, inventory control, and inventory optimization techniques.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive decision-making.\nAdvanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, ERP or replenishment systems, and data-analysis tools such as Power BI or equivalent.\nStrong business acumen and the ability to understand category dynamics, financial implications, supplier constraints, and customer-service priorities.\nExcellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex information to senior stakeholders.\nStrong project leadership, stakeholder-management, mentoring, and informal leadership capabilities.\nAbility to navigate ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and proactively address operational and strategic issues in a fast-paced environment.\nHigh attention to detail, accountability, and commitment to continuous improvement and measurable results.\nTRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:\nNA\nPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:\nRegularly sits and works on a computer.\nSeldom/never stands, walks or lifts up to 50 lbs.\nINDEPENDENT JUDGEMENT:\nPerforms 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.\nFull Time Benefits Summary:\nEnjoy discounts on retail merchandise, our restaurants, world-class resorts and conservation attractions!\nMedical\nDental\nVision\nHealth Savings Account\nFlexible Spending Account\nVoluntary benefits\n401k Retirement Savings\nPaid holidays\nPaid vacation\nPaid sick time\nBass Pro Cares Fund\nAnd more!\nWe will be accepting applications on an ongoing basis.\nBass Pro Shops is an equal opportunity employer. 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