Role Overview:

Responsible for collaborating with our field leadership and supplier relations to manage the replenishment/purchasing of inventory in a specific geographic area or a specific product line. The role is critical to support the success of our customer locations by ensuring the right inventory is readily available. This role is an integral part of a particular region's team as well as balancing the objectives of the entire corporation. The right candidate is a strong team player, analytical, detailed oriented, and service oriented towards our field sales locations.

This position needs to be based out of the Southern California Region but will be remote.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Inventory Control: Partner with leadership to develop inventory goals, identify issues, and offer solutions to help achieve expected inventory levels and turns.
• Inventory Replenishment: Responsible for setting suggested purchase order parameters and their periodic review and update identify inventory transfer opportunities between branches, prevent stock outs of high frequency sold items, review low inventory items, optimize vendor's buy programs, reduce slow moving and obsolete inventory. Execute PO management in our ERP system. Execute special bulk buy/offers in regions. Assist in new branch openings.
• Analytics: Leverage tools available to guide and assist field leadership on opportunities to improve inventory efficiency, including, slow moving, obsolete, days on hand, etc.
• SKU Maintenance: Support our data teams in managing key attributes of our inventory records, including but not limited to price, activation, lead time, stock status, usage, order quantities (i.e. case, pallet), item replacement.
• Expediting: Review key reports, including back-order reports, open purchase order reports, acknowledgments. Update delivery date and partnering with pricing when appropriate., Communicate lead time changes to the selling locations.
• In-bound Freight: Optimize vendor's pre-paid programs, transfer appropriate quantities, to the next logical location, identify CPU opportunities to save freight expense.
• Invoice Discrepancies: Reconcile discrepancies with accounts payable and vendor, notify Sourcing of vendor/price issues.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience as inventory manager or equivalent
• Strong Microsoft Excel and Power BI or equivalent
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong communications skills and experience collaborating with other teams
• Experience in Agility Software a plus
• Detailed oriented
• Team player

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: 4-year college degree preferred.

REPORTS TO: Senior Manager Inventory

INTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS: Regional Managers and Branch Managers

EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS: Inventory Vendors

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: 2-3 days 2 weeks a month (20-30%)

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Home office capable or office in branch location in region

Company Overview:

Sponsored by leading private equity firms, Leonard Green & Partners and Berkshire Partners, SRS Distribution ("SRS") is a large, specialty distribution platform that operates a network of 650+ branch locations across 44 states. Since the company's founding in 2008, SRS has achieved a best-in-class growth trajectory driven by the execution of 100+ acquisitions, the opening of 150+ new greenfield sites, and superior organic growth. SRS has an entrepreneurial mind-set and differentiates culture, which have been core tenants of its success and ability to attract talent in all areas of the organization. The company maintains leadership positions in three large and attractive industry verticals - building products, landscape supply, and pool & spa supply. SRS is one of the fastest growing distribution businesses in the U.S. and in the top 60 on Forbes list of America's Largest Private Companies.

Equal Opportunity Employer.

Veteran Friendly Employer. SRS Distribution believes in hiring military veterans at any level for any position. We know your service trained you in many of the areas we value, such as; leadership, teamwork, performance, integrity, and safety. If your experience matches our requirements, we want you to apply today.