Inventory Manager

Confidential Company

Inventory Management & Control

• Oversee end-to-end inventory operations across hypermarkets, supermarkets, warehouses, and distribution centers.

• Monitor and control inventory movement, stock availability, and replenishment processes.

• Manage high-value inventory turnover while ensuring optimal stock levels and reduced stock losses.

• Handle inventory operations involving more than 500K SKUs with high daily SKU creation, updates, and maintenance activities.

• Ensure accurate SKU master data management including barcode, pricing, category mapping, UOM, and product attributes.

Retail & FMCG Operations

• Coordinate with buying, merchandising, warehouse, and store operations teams.

• Monitor fast-moving, slow-moving, non-moving, and seasonal inventory trends.

• Ensure timely stock replenishment and minimize out-of-stock situations.

• Analyze sales trends, demand patterns, and inventory aging reports.

• Manage promotional inventory planning and stock allocation.

Inventory Accuracy & Audit

• Ensure high inventory accuracy across all locations and systems.

• Conduct cycle counts, stock audits, and physical inventory verification.

• Investigate stock variances, shrinkage, damages, and expiry-related losses.

• Implement inventory control procedures and corrective actions.

• Maintain compliance with internal audit and operational standards.

ERP & SKU Data Management

• Manage inventory master data in ERP and retail systems.

• Handle large-scale daily SKU updates, product onboarding, delisting, and category revisions.

• Ensure synchronization between ERP, POS, warehouse, and e-commerce platforms.

• Generate inventory MIS reports, stock movement analysis, and KPI dashboards.

Team Management & Leadership

• Lead and supervise inventory controllers, data entry teams, warehouse coordinators, and stock auditors.

• Allocate tasks, monitor team performance, and ensure operational efficiency.

• Train and mentor team members on inventory processes, ERP systems, and stock control procedures.

• Coordinate cross-functional communication between stores, warehouses, procurement, and finance teams.

• Foster a culture of accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement.

Supply Chain & Warehouse Coordination

• Coordinate with logistics and warehouse teams for stock transfers and replenishment.

• Monitor warehouse stock utilization and storage efficiency.

• Ensure timely GRN processing and inventory reconciliation.

• Support supply chain optimization initiatives.

Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare inventory valuation, stock aging, and shrinkage reports.

• Monitor inventory KPIs including stock turnover ratio, sell-through, fill rate, and stock cover.

• Provide management with actionable inventory insights and recommendations.

• Support budgeting and forecasting activities related to inventory planning.

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Commerce, Business Administration, or related field.

• Professional certifications in Inventory/Supply Chain Management are an advantage.

Experience

• 5–10 years of experience in FMCG retail or hypermarket inventory management.

• Mandatory experience in the United Arab Emirates hypermarket/supermarket industry.

• Proven experience handling inventory operations exceeding 500,000 SKUs.

• Strong exposure to high daily SKU updation environments and large-scale retail inventory systems.

• Experience managing high-value inventory turnover in multi-branch retail operations.

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of inventory control procedures and retail operations.

• Hands-on experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, ERPNext, Focus, or similar retail systems.

• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills.

• Familiarity with barcode systems, WMS, and POS integration.

• Experience with inventory forecasting and replenishment tools.