Role Overview
Clients don’t hire you just to track stock—they hire you to stop revenue from leaking. Your role exists to keep supply aligned with demand, so the business can stay in stock without overextending cash. It’s about protecting profitability, keeping operations fluid, and giving the brand room to scale without collapsing under inventory mistakes. An effective Inventory & Supply Chain Manager is a growth enabler, not just a back-end operator.
This is not a clerical restock or shipping coordinator role. It’s not about reacting to forecasts—it’s about anticipating shifts, spotting risk early, and protecting the business from expensive surprises. Running out of stock kills momentum. Overstock suffocates cash flow. In this lane, even small errors can sink product margins or stall a launch. But when done right, this function becomes a quiet engine of stability and scale in a high-stakes marketplace.
Standards You Must Meet
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You keep stock levels aligned with forecasted demand — products stay available, but cash isn’t trapped in dead inventory.
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You prevent stockouts before they happen by flagging risk early and adjusting plans fast.
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Every reorder, shipment, and inventory decision is backed by real-time data, not guesswork.
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Clients expect you to tighten lead times and reduce inventory holding costs without sacrificing sell-through.
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No untracked delays, no missed PO dates — operational silence is a sign you’re doing it right.
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Overstocking due to sloppy projections or slow reaction isn’t just a mistake — it’s money lost.
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You build and maintain supply chain systems that scale with new SKUs and increased sales volume.
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When clients ask where inventory is or when it’s arriving, your answers are immediate and accurate.
What You’ll Be Doing
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Monitor SKU-level stock across all fulfillment nodes and raise alerts when inventory positions slip out of tolerance.
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Forecast demand using historical velocity, sales trends, and campaign data to drive accurate reordering timelines.
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Build and manage lead time calendars per supplier and logistics partner to prevent silent shipment delays.
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Execute and track purchase orders with clean alignment to inventory projections, keeping overstock and stockouts in check.
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Maintain real-time inventory dashboards and reorder models that support financial and operational visibility.
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Coordinate restocks and new launches by aligning inbound inventory timelines with sales strategy milestones.
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Analyze supply chain bottlenecks, surface root causes fast, and propose data-backed corrective actions.
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Design and apply automation or workflows to eliminate manual tracking tasks and tighten operational speed.
What You’ll Hand Over
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A real-time inventory dashboard showing current stock levels, inbound shipments, and projected stockout dates per SKU.
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A validated reorder schedule aligned with sales velocity, supplier lead times, and campaign timelines.
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A monthly Inventory Health Report highlighting excess, aging, or at-risk SKUs with clear action recommendations.
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A shipment tracker with updated ETAs, carrier details, and confirmed contents for all active POs.
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A risk summary outlining upcoming supply chain threats and proposed adjustments to protect stock availability and cash flow.
Tools You’ll Need to Use
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Amazon Seller Central — Primary platform for managing inventory, shipments, and Amazon FBA supply chain workflows.
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InventoryLab — Supports real-time inventory tracking, replenishment planning, and profitability analysis.
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Excel (Advanced) — Critical for managing forecasting models, lead-time calendars, and bulk inventory data.
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Helium 10 (Inventory Protector & Profits Tool) — Key for monitoring stock levels, cost trends, and protecting high-velocity listings.
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Google Sheets — Used for collaborative inventory tracking, shared dashboards, and live reporting visibility.
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ShipStation or similar WMS tool — Essential for managing order fulfillment, shipping labels, and outbound logistics flow.
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ForecastRX or SoStocked — Supports accurate demand forecasting and restock planning aligned with supply chain capacity.
Why Work Smarter
We’re clear about this: if you can’t automate basic repeatable tasks, you are behind. You don’t need deep coding knowledge, but you must be fluent in what’s possible. Alerts, layered workflows, dynamic stock updates — these aren’t “nice-to-haves” anymore. They are quickly becoming the minimum standard for strategic operations.
OES sets AI and automation literacy as a baseline not because it’s trendy, but because the market already expects it. The competitive bar is rising — and we rise with it.
Why Your Work Matters
Inventory gaps don’t just slow sales—they stall growth, burn cash, and shake client confidence. A delayed PO or a missed reorder window can wipe out a product’s momentum in hours. That’s why this role isn’t operational filler—it’s a financial control point. Every inventory decision either protects margin or erodes it. And right now, brands are scaling faster than most supply chains can keep up.
Clients aren’t paying for guesswork or clerical tasks. They’re relying on you to see around corners, intercept risk early, and keep capital moving at the pace of demand. Supply needs to be precise, fast, and responsive—because the cost of getting it wrong isn’t small; it’s compounding. Done well, this role turns supply chain friction into business velocity. Done poorly, it breaks the launch, drains the budget, and buries growth.
What We Expect From You
As a Strategist-level Inventory & Supply Chain Manager at OES, you are expected to own the supply chain from a profit-first, risk-mitigated perspective. You make sourcing, ordering, and forecasting decisions not just to keep products in stock—but to protect cash, preserve margin, and preempt operational breakdowns. You understand the financial weight of holding too much inventory, just as much as the opportunity cost of stocking out. You work in weekly, monthly, and quarterly rhythms, balancing granular SKU-level visibility with macro supply strategy. This isn’t about executing instructions—it’s about applying judgment and controlling the supply function on behalf of the brand.
We are looking for someone who sees inventory as a business lever, not a passive signal tracker. You anticipate via data, not react to it. You’re disciplined in numbers, fluent in lead times, and relentless in holding vendors, 3PLs, and inbound teams to standards. You absorb complexity without dropping precision, whether you’re working across ASIN bundles or new product launches. This role holds direct influence over COGS, cash flow, and customer experience—profit lives and dies by how well you manage it.
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$615 – $1,760+
OES salary standards reflect real market benchmarks, tier and experience level, ensuring fair pay for VAs and realistic expectations for clients.
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