Manager - Inventory
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Job overview
The Manager - Inventory oversees inventory for assigned locations, optimizing investment while maintaining high-level customer service. The role manages stocking decisions, inventory optimization, supplier performance, and working capital objectives, while also recruiting, training, and coaching personnel. The position requires a bachelor’s degree in supply chain or a business-related field and experience in inventory management and supervisory or leadership work.
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Full job description
As the Manager - Inventory, you will be responsible for oversight and management of inventory for assigned locations to optimize investment while providing high-level service to customers.
Responsibilities:
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Monitors and adjusts order review points (ORP) and economic order quantity (EOQ) levels and makes appropriate stocking decisions.
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Standardizes and maintains inventory attributes for purchasing and inventory systems and databases.
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Monitors and utilizes reports, inventory applications and processes to achieve and exceed expectations of fill rate and on-time delivery objectives.
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Creates, implements, and executes inventory optimization plans and programs to achieve working capital objectives for asset management.
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Rationalizes and standardizes supplier base within assigned locations to increase preferred supplier utilization, and increase purchasing leverage.
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Reviews on-time deliveries, supplier fill rates, and error reports to evaluate supplier performance.
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Works to obtain improved performance from suppliers as warranted.
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Uses reports, applications, and programs to monitor and maintain stocking levels, make stocking decisions, conduct branch shuffles, supplier returns of excess and inactive inventory, disposal of inactive inventory through established procedures and policies, and minimize inventory write-offs.
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Assists in recruitment, selection, training and coaching of personnel.
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Develops and trains employees in activities related to job function requirements, including purchasing procedures, PC knowledge, quality system, etc.
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Provides strong leadership to personnel to meet and exceed performance objectives, encourage professional development to ensure future growth and reduce turnover.
Qualifications:
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Bachelors’ Degree in Supply Chain, or Business-related field required; Masters’ Degree preferred.
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APICS or ISM certification preferred; Lean – Blue / White / Yellow preferred.
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3 years required, 5 years preferred of increasing responsibility in inventory management experience.
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3 years required of supervisory or leadership experience.
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Knowledge of commonly used purchasing and inventory concepts, practices, and procedures.
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Strong interpersonal skills to demonstrate teamwork, leadership and flexibility while working with all levels of the organization.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills.
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Ability to organize and prioritize tasks to ensure completion.
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Strong mathematical, analytical, and computer skills.
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Strong time management skills.
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Ability to work independently, exercise good judgment, and find solutions.
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Ability to explain and teach policies, procedures, and practices.
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At Wesco, we build, connect, power and protect the world. As a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, we create a world that you can depend on.
Our Company’s greatest asset is our people. Wesco is committed to fostering a workplace where every individual is respected, valued, and empowered to succeed. We promote a culture that is grounded in teamwork and respect. With a workforce of over 20,000 people worldwide, we embrace the unique perspectives each person brings. Through comprehensive benefits (https://www.wesco.com/us/en/our-company/careers/work-at-wesco.html#benefits) and active community engagement, we create an environment where every team member has the opportunity to thrive.
Learn more about Working at Wesco here (https://www.wesco.com/us/en/our-company/careers/work-at-wesco.html) and apply online today!
Founded in 1922 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Wesco is a publicly traded (NYSE: WCC) FORTUNE 500® company.
Wesco International, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Wesco”) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. US applicants only, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Los Angeles Unincorporated County Candidates Only: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.
This posting is for a current, active vacancy intended for immediate hire.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,780 open Inventory Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$70–99K/yr389 salary ranges
- Illinois median$18–27/hr39 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 65 open Inventory Management jobs in Illinois and 1,780 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Inventory Management postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (948 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 236 of the 1,780 open Inventory Management jobs (13%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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