Support Amazon and Authorized marketplace resellers merchandising categories & retailers by maintaining inventory levels appropriate & timely to meet sales objectives. Maximize profitability by meeting inventory turn goals as well as managing the exit of discontinued product. Successful management of orders and flow of goods that align to customer specific requirements. Provide reporting on inventory issues and detailed resolution. Efficiently communicate with Sales and Operations to ensure performance and achieve problem resolution. Responsibilities 1. Communicate with Sales, Merchandising & Operations Team to support the accurate and timely ordering and transfer of goods to DC’s and .com.  2. Work with Order Management and EDI team to ensure accurate and on time processing of purchase orders.  3. Analysis – Work closely with sales team to ensure support of promotional activities  4. Communication – Communicate and partner with demand planners, wholesale management, sales, merchandising and necessary operations team, and product teams for all inventory related issues. 5. Order Management – Working with Cricut order processing team, ensure that customer purchase orders are executed as per the customer supply chain requirements. Manage and minimize supply chain related customer chargebacks.  6. Inventory Management – Working with Sales Director, Sales Support team and Inventory Management team to review analysis of inventory levels.  6. Buying team integration – Actively works with all buying team members to create a positive and pro-active working environment.  7.Manage disputes and charge backs on Amazon Vendor Central, collaborating with Cricut Finance   Merchandising  Works closely with sales, sales support and inventory management teams to ensure inventory levels both support financial objectives and meet in stock goals.  Develop and implement necessary unique replenishment tactics on trend or highly seasonal categories / items.  Analysis  Partner with Demand Planners, Sales, and planning teams to review inventory for upcoming events. Monitor and evaluate weekly sells-in and sales out trends and make recommendations Create/Manage sell-through forecasts by product line for Quarter +2 for Amazon 1P and authorized 3p. Provide data to planning team to monitor future inventory receipts vs. financial plan.  Review data with sales/channel teams on key items to ensure inventory support of sales during peak season and promo opportunities.   Documentation  Provide weekly update on status of key inventory issues.  Provide updates on key inventory metrics vs. goals.   Communication  Build and maintain a positive working relationship with sales and ops and all cross functional teams. Manage vendor performance through appropriate communication involving sales / merchant teams and all inventory managers as necessary  Performance Measures  Support the Sales Goals / Budget Support gross margin / contribution margin objectives  Reduce overstock and increase inventory productivity Ensure inventory levels are in support of achieving financial objectives  Metrics utilized:  Fill rate  In-stocks  Inventory turns; stock to sales ratios  Meeting forecasted financial results for approved projects  Chargeback and disputes as a % of Sales  Ontime PO accuracy 
