Inventory Analyst

 

INVENTORY ANALYST (HYDROJUG) — HEALTH / AGED / REPORTING

Reports to: Jessica Jensen, Director of Inventory

 

ABOUT THE ROLE

You are the inventory analyst dedicated to HydroJug — the core drinkware brand. Where the Acta + Puressentials Analyst handles brand-specific inventory complexity, you handle the HJ-wide inventory infrastructure: the daily inventory health dashboard, aged inventory tracking, write-down recommendations, and the planning/budgeting/reporting layer that feeds S&OP and Finance.

 

Today this work is underdeveloped or split across multiple people. Inventory drift becomes a silent margin leak — aged inventory accumulates, stockouts surprise the business, write-downs land at year-end as bad-news discoveries instead of planned events. Your job is to make all of that visible, current, and decision-ready.

 

You report to Jessica Jensen (Director of Inventory) and partner closely with the Director of Planning & S&OP (open hire — your skip-level once filled), the Allocation Specialist (Laszlo Steffensen), the demand planning bench, and Finance.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Daily inventory health:

• Daily inventory health dashboard refresh — HJ core brand SKUs
• Stockout risk monitoring + proactive flagging (before stockouts happen, not after)
• Overstock identification + early-warning to Demand Planning
• Allocation policy interpretation support — partner with the Allocation Specialist when judgment calls happen

 

Aged inventory + disposition:

• Aged inventory tracking (>90 / 180 / 365 days)
• Markdown / liquidation candidate identification
• Write-down recommendations to Finance (Aaron Davis's team)
• Cycle count coordination with Warehouse
• Quarterly aged-inventory clearance cadence

 

Reporting + planning + budgeting layer:

• Weekly Inventory Review meeting pre-read + outputs
• Monthly inventory health into S&OP forum
• Annual inventory plan + budget input
• Brand-comparison reporting (HJ + Acta + Purelyte together) — partnered with the Acta+Purelyte Analyst on the multi-brand views

 

SUCCESS CRITERIA

First 30 days

• 1:1s with Jessica, the Demand Planning bench, Laszlo Steffensen (Allocation), and Finance counterparts.
• You've audited current inventory reporting state: what's daily/weekly/monthly today, what's missing, where the data lives (NetSuite, BigQuery, Shopify, retailer reports).
• You have NOT proposed new dashboards yet.

 

First 90 days

• Daily inventory health dashboard is current and visible to the business.
• Aged inventory report is being produced weekly, with markdown/disposition candidates flowing to Sales + Marketing.
• Weekly Inventory Review meeting has a working agenda + decision capture (you co-own this with Jessica).
• Stockout risk flagging is preventing — not just reporting — stockouts.

 

First 6 months

• Aged inventory cleared on quarterly cadence; the business knows what's on the chopping block 8 weeks before it hits.
• Year-end write-down forecast is built and tracking — no more year-end surprises.
• Finance trusts the inventory data flowing into their planning. The CFO has current numbers.
• Jessica is freed from reporting + analytics work and is focused on policy + PLM.

 

First 12 months

• Inventory health is no longer a data-and-reporting gap; it's a working system.
• The S&OP forum runs on inventory data you produce — clean, current, decision-ready.
• You've earned the conversation about scope expansion (potentially a Sr. Inventory Analyst title or broader reporting ownership across brands).

 

QUALIFICATIONS

 

1. Make the invisible visible. Inventory drift is a silent killer. Your job is to make aged inventory + stockout risk + overstock visible before they become problems, not after. Dashboard discipline is the work.

 

2. Current beats perfect. A daily dashboard that's 95% accurate beats a weekly one that's 100% accurate. Until the Systems BA bench is fully built, you'll be working with imperfect data sources — accept that, drive the discipline of current.

 

3. You free Jessica to do policy work. Today Jessica owns inventory policy + PLM + health + reporting all together. With you in seat, she gets to focus on policy + PLM (the higher-leverage work) while you own the health + aged + reporting layer. Don't be precious about ownership — be precious about clean handoffs.

 

4. Partner with the Acta + Purelyte Analyst. They own brand inventory; you own HJ inventory + multi-brand reporting. Together you give Jessica the full picture. Coordinate weekly so the multi-brand views are coherent.

 

5. Finance is your second-closest partner. Write-down forecasting, year-end planning, aged-inventory accounting — these run through Finance. Build that relationship early.

 

6. The Director of Planning & S&OP (when filled) is your skip-level. Your inventory data feeds the S&OP forum. Make sure what flows up is clean.

 

7. Lean is the operating system. HJ has chosen 2 Inventory Analysts (you + the Acta+Purelyte Analyst) + 1 Director (Jessica). That's the bench. Make it work. If demand legitimately exceeds capacity, surface it with data.

 

ABOUT HYDROJUG, INC.

HydroJug, Inc. is a consumer brand headquartered in Ogden, Utah, designing and selling premium hydration and lifestyle products through direct-to-consumer and major retail channels.

 

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Featured benefits

Medical insurance, Vision insurance, Dental insurance, 401(k)