Customer Inventory Partner

**YOUR OPPORTUNITY**

Due to exciting growth within our business, we have created a unique opportunity for a **Customer Inventory Partner **to join our team working out of our **Canning Vale WA **office. The purpose of this role is to contribute to the execution of our joint Blackwoods and Customer Supply Chain strategy, primarily focusing on exceeding the customers service expectations.

Integral to the success of the role, will be a capacity to generate detailed, accurate and insightful reporting, the ability to analyse and improve complex supply chain systems, whilst continuously challenging all aspects of our end-to-end supply chain model. The Customer Inventory Partner will work in collaboration with key customer stakeholders related to our joint Supply Chain Strategy.

**Your key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to**:

- Lead the delivery of strategic forecasting and inventory projects as requested by the Supply Chain Manager.
- Ensure appropriate system input parameters such as safety stock overrides, optimal replenishment quantity, and lead-times.
- Support the strategic sales team to promote, educate and facilitate customer demand profiling. This includes attending customer sites with the sales teams as required.
- The use of data to improve supply chain performance and overall business outcomes.
- Develop relationships with the customer’s inventory planners by introducing regular cadences to understand, demand forecast, potential system limitations, upcoming projects or any other opportunity for service improvement.
- Proactively collaborate with cross-functional teams to assist in supporting daily/weekly/monthly service level targets.

**To be successful, you will have**:

- Detailed knowledge of inventory systems, replenishment methodologies and demand management.
- Demonstrated experience in Microsoft Excel, Power Query and Power Bi.
- Highly developed communication and listening skills.
- The ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines, effective time management and problem-solving capabilities.
- Continuous improvement mindset, with a collaborative and solutions focused approach.
- Demonstrated previous experience in a similar role, with strong analytical and mathematical abilities.
- Tertiary qualification in supply chain or quantitative discipline and/or relevant experience in an analytical or planning capacity.
- Current Driver’s licence highly regarded.

**CULTURE & BENEFITS**

A career with Blackwoods will offer you rewarding experiences, opportunities for growth and the chance to help more Australians build a better Australia.

We have a diverse, inclusive, and safe workplace where all our team members feel empowered to connect and make a meaningful difference to our customers, communities and colleagues. To ensure our employees feel valued, supported and celebrated, we provide a range of employee benefits including:

- Flexible and hybrid work arrangements
- Competitive salary and bonus structures
- Onsite parking, team events and celebrations
- Option to purchase 4 weeks additional annual leave
- Team member discounts on Wesfarmers products
- Discounted offers from over 300 corporate partners
- Generous Wesfarmers Annual Share Plan
- Attractive parental leave policy and more

**CULTURE & BENEFITS**
- To ensure our employees feel valued, supported, and celebrated, we provide a range of employee benefits including:_
- Attractive permanent salary and incentives
- Ability to purchase up to 4 weeks’ additional annual leave
- Attractive Wesfarmers share plan every year
- Highly successful Refer-A-Friend program - to earn up to $2,000 for each referral
- Generous paid parental leave policy
- Regular team events, celebrations and BBQs
- Team member discount card to use at Kmart, Bunnings, Target & Officeworks
- Further Wesfarmers discounted offers from over 300 corporate partners
- Free onsite free parking and more

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