Senior Analyst, Field Inventory Planning
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Senior Analyst supporting field inventory planning at Petco, ensuring inventory readiness across new stores and promotional activities. Analyzing trends and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
- Support the connection between enterprise inventory planning and store-level execution.
- Provide data analysis, reporting, and execution support to ensure inventory readiness across new stores, pilots, promotions, and market changes.
- Partner closely with Merchandising, Replenishment, and Store Operations to identify risks, analyze trends, and improve in-stock performance.
- Analyze in-stock rates, forecast accuracy, and sell-through trends across markets.
- Identify root causes of inventory imbalances and recommend corrective actions.
- Support pre- and post-new store opening inventory reviews.
- Collaborate with analytics teams to design and build necessary tools and dashboards; analyze to identify areas of opportunity and actions required.
- Provide weekly inventory insights to support field execution.
- Monitor high-visibility showcase or pilot locations and flag performance gaps.
- Support inventory planning for store events and promotional activities.
- Analyze uplift performance and refine allocation assumptions.
- Track competitor openings/closures and evaluate local demand shifts.
- Support inventory response plans for market-level changes.
Requirements:
- 3–5+ years of experience in retail inventory planning, replenishment, allocation, merchandising analytics, or store operations
- Experience supporting multi-store or omni retail environments preferred
- Demonstrated experience analyzing inventory KPIs (in-stock %, forecast accuracy, sell-through, weeks of supply)
- Experience supporting new store openings, promotions, or pilot initiatives preferred
- Exposure to inventory systems, ERP, or replenishment platforms
- Experience partnering cross-functionally in a matrixed organization
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Analytics, Operations, or related field preferred, 5+ yrs experience within the disciplines required
- Advanced Excel proficiency required
- Experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, etc.) preferred
- APICS/CPIM certification preferred but not required
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities



















