Industrial Material Inventory Analyst

About the role

The Industrial Material Inventory Analyst optimizes the inventory of machine spares and consumables across multiple Ford plants. This role ensures compliance with Ford’s inventory and financial guidelines while supporting uninterrupted production.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain optimal inventory levels for machine spares and consumables with zero risk to production.
• Analyze demand and consumption trends to align procurement orders and in‑plant stocks with changing needs.
• Drive collaborative purchasing and reuse of industrial material spares across plants.
• Reduce overall industrial material inventory to meet budget targets.
• Review daily work chain for stock replenishment, considering lead time, pricing, safety stock, pack quantity and minimum order quantities.
• Manage back‑order requests, critical and high‑value items, and ensure timely clarification with plant teams.
• Govern item master data, including deletions, catalog changes and part status updates.
• Request quotations, place initial orders, and follow up with suppliers to meet safety‑stock requirements.
• Support plant‑to‑plant transfer requests and provide shipment status updates.
• Coordinate scrap or sale of unused parts to reduce inventory and free space.
• Develop Excel macro tools and leverage PEGA, Alteryx, R, Python, SQL to improve processes and enable predictive inventory management.
• Ensure monthly governance reporting of inventory performance.

Required profile

• Proven experience in inventory management, supply chain or procurement within an industrial environment.
• Strong analytical ability to assess demand trends and drive cost‑effective inventory strategies.
• Effective communication with plant operations, engineering, finance and purchasing teams.
• Capability to develop and maintain process‑improvement tools.

Required skills

• Advanced Excel, including macro development.
• PEGA.
• Alteryx.
• R programming.
• Python.
• SQL.