Inventory Analyst, Manufacturing Operations
Location: Calgary, AB
The Opportunity
With cutting-edge facilities in Calgary, Canada, and Tempe, USA, DSM is a leading force in electronics manufacturing. For 25 years, we have built a reputation for excellence, delivering high-quality, scalable solutions to established businesses across sectors such as energy, defense, communications, industrial, and emerging technology.
Our expertise spans complex PCB assembly, full-system integration, and supply chain optimization, ensuring precision, reliability, and efficiency at every stage. Certified through Canada’s Controlled Goods Program and the USA’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations, DSM meets the highest security and compliance standards.
This role is essential to maintaining inventory accuracy and supporting the reconciliation of materials utilized in complex assembly processes.
This is a full-time in office position, working 40 hours per week (Monday – Friday).
Responsibilities:
- Inventory governance: Establish and enforce inventory policies, controls, and SOPs to ensure data integrity across the business unit.
- Inventory health & E&O: Monitor inventory health and mitigate excess and obsolete (E&O) risk, ensuring customer liability positions are documented, communicated, and agreed with customers.
- Demand signals: Interpret demand signal changes—forecast revisions, order shifts, and engineering changes—and adjust buffer, safety stock, and reorder parameters accordingly.
- SIOP: Own the inventory portion of the Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) process, preparing projections and presenting inventory positions and risks in monthly reviews.
- Cash-adjusted inventory: Partner with Finance to analyze cash-adjusted inventory and support working capital, inventory turns, and days-on-hand objectives.
- Cross-functional communication: Serve as the key liaison between Supply Chain, Finance, Operations, and Program Management on inventory status, risks, and opportunities.
- Warehousing & VMI: Support warehousing and storage agreements for company- and customer-owned material, and administer Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and consignment programs.
- Customer claims & program support: Support resolution of inventory-related customer claims with accurate data and reconciliation, and partner with Program Management to align inventory with program milestones and commitments.
- ERP/MRP accuracy: Conduct routine audits and cycle counts to maintain ERP/MRP data accuracy, and oversee surplus inventory through accurate records and proper physical segregation.
- Reporting: Support physical inventory counts, drive action plans to reduce non-working stock, and prepare reports that reconcile inventory to financial records and track performance metrics.
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of direct experience in inventory control, materials analysis, or cycle counting, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
- A bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Proficiency in ERP/MRP systems and intermediate Excel, with a solid grasp of cycle counting, reconciliation, and warehouse management principles.
- Familiarity with SIOP / S&OP, excess and obsolete (E&O) and customer-liability management, and VMI / consignment concepts.
- Awareness of the link between inventory and working capital—inventory turns, days-on-hand, and cash-adjusted inventory—and comfort partnering with Finance on reconciliation.
- Strong attention to detail, analytical ability, and communication skills, with the ability to resolve discrepancies across internal and external stakeholders.
- Asset: APICS/ASCM certification (CPIM or CSCP) and experience in a controlled-goods manufacturing environment (ITAR / Controlled Goods Program).
Pay: $70,000.00-$80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
