**This position is based in Boston, MA. This is a hybrid role that requires a minimum of four days on-site per week.**

At this time, Wayfair is unable to hire candidates that require visa sponsorship now or in the future for this position.

At Wayfair Supplier Inventory Management, we partner with thousands of suppliers to maximize customers’ experience. This means driving speed and availability through inventory and positioning strategies with suppliers leveraging Wayfair’s fulfillment services (CastleGate) as well as suppliers’ own supply chain capacities. This role sits at the intersection of our Inventory Management, Category Management, Warehousing, Transportation, and Retail businesses. We are looking for a highly motivated individual who is comfortable operating in a fast paced and ambiguous environment to serve as a senior associate for inventory availability & vendor management. This role will partner closely with a portfolio of suppliers to ensure product is in the right place, in the right quantity, at the right time for the Wayfair customer.

What You'll Do: 

• Partner with suppliers to grow their business with Wayfair and develop insights to influence their product assortment, production, supply chain, and operations as well as analyze product delivery and supply chain processes to identify or recommend changes. 
• Develop and execute strategies to optimize sales, turns, in-stock rates, and network balance to determine appropriate network design strategy for supplier partners. 
• Track performance against forecasts to identify and communicate risks and opportunities for the business. 
• Conduct ad hoc analyses using Excel and internal dashboards to drive decisions. Work cross functionally with multiple teams (Ocean logistics, Engineering, Pricing, Category management, operations, network management, merchandising) to solve business problems, and manage vendor relationships. 
• Drive root cause analysis/reporting on operational issues, developing action plans, and project managing improvements. 
• Work with senior team members, with a focus on structuring analyses and communicating findings to senior management
• Develop reporting metrics and present data so that insights can be used to help drive financial and operational strategy. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Business Administration, Operations Research, Economics, Statistics, or a directly related field. 
• 3+ years of work experience in E-commerce, Retail and Operations/ logistics/transportation industry business acumen to deep dive into the industry trends, preferred
• Excellent command of Microsoft Excel/ Google Sheets (including use of Pivot Tables, and complex formulae) to perform deep-dives on supplier performance and analyze trends 
• Consulting skills to interact with supplier partners’ internal teams and build a strong working relationship with Supplier Leadership that serves beneficial to both parties 
• A knack of connecting the dots (Analytics + Supply Chain + Strategy) and formulating a hypothesis to determine warehouse eligibility, and optimize allocation logic to minimize cost, and increase speed to customer 
• Ability to handle multiple projects, and synthesize data into consumable formats and bring actionable insights through effective communication

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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