(Senior) Manager, Inventory Planning and Management

The role

This person will manage inventory to build and maintain selection while controlling costs. They will work with cross-functional teams to deliver inventory to customers and vendors in Taiwan.

What you will do

• Work backwards from the needs of customers and vendors to deliver inventory.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure customer in-stock and vendor needs are surpassed.
• Drive business growth by ensuring customer desired items are in-stock.
• Partner with vendors to optimize metrics such as lead-time and fill-rate.
• Utilize data to prioritize impactful actions to deliver business results.
• Identify root causes of issues, develop solutions and implement the solve.
• Manage ordering process and systems to balance competing business priorities.
• Guide the development of processes and controls to monitor forecasting, inbound, and inventory management systems.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in Demand Forecasting, Ordering, Procurement, Inventory Management and Supply Chain.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain-related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with vendors to deliver business results.
• Superior oral and written communication skills.
• Innate attention to detail.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to set high standards and drive others to excellence.
• Ability to effectively use data to complete analyses.
• Strong Excel proficiency.
• Ability to set lofty goals with relentless drive and ownership.
• Mandarin and English language proficiency.

Nice to have

• SQL and other technical skills
• Experience collaborating with Sales and Operations stakeholders in e-Commerce and/or Retail industry

Before you apply

• Application Review - Recruiter Screening Call - Job Fit Interview - Focus Interview – Offer
• This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
• Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information.

About the company

Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer. Their services in Taiwan include Rocket Delivery and Rocket Overseas.