Inventory Planning Analyst - Americas
Emerson · Elyria
The Inventory Planning Analyst - Americas plays a critical role in optimizing inventory performance and supply planning across the Americas region. This position provides analytical insight and planning support to help balance customer service, inventory investment, and excess inventory risk while ensuring alignment between supply and demand plans. Working across distribution centers, manufacturing sites, and key business functions, you will leverage data, systems, and cross-functional partnerships to enhance inventory positioning, strengthen planning accuracy, and support operational excellence.
Based at Emerson’s global headquarters in Elyria, Ohio, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to a collaborative, data-driven environment focused on delivering exceptional customer outcomes through innovation, integrity, and teamwork.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
- Develop and maintain the Americas inventory plan, inventory projections, targets, and Supply Chain Alignment Tool (SCAT) analysis.
- Analyze inventory and service performance across distribution centers to identify trends, risks, opportunities, inventory imbalances, and excess inventory while recommending actions to improve inventory positioning.
- Develop and maintain service-level reporting and analysis, including RDSL, stockouts, cancellations, backlog, and other key customer service performance indicators.
- Create and maintain intercompany transfer forecasts for global branches, partnering with regional teams to understand requirements and proactively identify supply risks.
- Analyze significant DRP and inventory changes, identify key drivers, and collaborate with Distribution Center Replenishment Managers, Sales Planning, and manufacturing teams to support alignment between demand and supply plans.
- Partner across distribution centers and business functions to identify inventory optimization opportunities, coordinate supply issue resolution, and support inventory readiness for promotions and changing demand patterns.
- Develop and maintain inventory, service, and supply reporting for S&OP, POR, month-end reviews, and other business planning activities while supporting continuous improvement initiatives across the Americas.
Who You Are:
You consistently make sense of complex information and use data to identify meaningful insights, risks, and opportunities. You build strong partnerships across teams and communicate clearly to drive understanding, collaboration, and action. You effectively prioritize work, manage multiple responsibilities, and align planning activities with business objectives. You seek to understand underlying challenges, evaluate options thoughtfully, and make sound recommendations that support both customer service and operational performance.
For This Role, You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Analytics, or a related field.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze and reconcile large amounts of data.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
- Understanding of inventory planning, replenishment, demand planning, or related supply chain processes.
- Ability to identify trends and discrepancies, investigate root causes, and develop clear recommendations.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and recurring planning deadlines.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across distribution, manufacturing, Sales Planning, Sourcing, Product Management, and other functions.
Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:
- Experience in inventory planning, replenishment, demand planning, supply planning, or a related supply chain function.
- Experience working with distribution center inventory, service level analysis, and DRP or replenishment systems.
- Experience with forecasting or intercompany supply planning.
- Functional knowledge of ERP and business intelligence systems; Domo and JD Edwards experience preferred.
- Experience developing inventory and service reporting, dashboards, and business analysis.
- Experience supporting S&OP or other integrated planning processes.
Our Culture and Commitment To You:
At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.
We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing and strive to provide flexible, competitive benefits that support your physical, mental, financial, and social wellness. Our offerings include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition programs, and more. We also support work-life balance through flexible time-off programs, paid parental leave, vacation benefits, and company holidays.
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Our Commitment to Our People
At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.
We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.
At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.
Work Authorization
Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.
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The Inventory Planning Analyst - Americas plays a key role in inventory and supply planning across the Americas, with responsibility for inventory analysis, service level performance tracking, intercompany transfer forecasting, and planning data accuracy. The role provides cross-distribution center visibility and analysis to help balance customer service, inventory investment, and excess inventory risk. This role works closely with Distribution Center (DC) Replenishment Managers, Sales Planning, manufacturing plants, Sourcing, Product Management, and other cross-functional teams to identify inventory and service risks, improve inventory positioning, and ensure supply and inventory plans are aligned with expected demand. The position also works across planning systems and data to identify discrepancies, improve data quality, and strengthen the information used for inventory, service, and replenishment decisions. This position is based at our global headquarters in Elyria, Ohio.