Senior Manager, Inventory Controls & Analytics
Bristol Myers Squibb · Leiden, NL, Netherlands · onsite
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Bristol Myers Squibb Netherlands
Bristol Myers Squibb has been active in the Dutch market for over 50 years, employing people across a range of activities and business units in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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The Netherlands has everything it takes to become the medicines hub of Europe, the so-called Boston by the North Sea. As we continue to expand our footprint by building this new site, we are looking to grow our team.
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Position Summary
The Senior Manager, Inventory Controls & Analytics is a key leadership role responsible for establishing and maintaining best-in-class inventory control, reconciliation, analytics, and reporting processes across the organization and its third-party logistics (3PL) network.
This role combines deep inventory management expertise with advanced data analytics, SAP knowledge, and strong leadership capabilities. The Senior Manager will be accountable for inventory accuracy and integrity, ensuring timely reconciliation between internal systems, SAP, 3PL partners, and physical inventory while identifying and addressing the root causes of discrepancies.
The successful candidate will be highly analytical, comfortable working with large and complex datasets, and capable of transforming data into actionable insights for senior leadership. This individual will lead continuous improvement initiatives, strengthen inventory governance and controls, and partner cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Operations, IT, and external 3PL providers.
Key Responsibilities
Inventory Control & Reconciliation
- Own and oversee end-to-end inventory control and reconciliation processes across internal operations and external 3PL locations.
- Ensure inventory balances are accurately reconciled between SAP, warehouse management systems (EWM), 3PL systems, and physical inventory.
- Lead the investigation and resolution of inventory discrepancies, including identification of root causes and implementation of sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
- Establish inventory accuracy standards, controls, tolerances, escalation processes, and governance mechanisms.
- Oversee cycle count programs, physical inventory activities, inventory adjustments, and reconciliation processes.
- Monitor inventory movements and transactions to proactively identify data integrity issues, process failures, and emerging risks.
- Partner with Finance to ensure inventory balances and adjustments are appropriately reconciled and supported.
3PL Inventory Management
- Lead inventory reconciliation and control activities across third-party logistics providers.
- Establish clear inventory reporting, reconciliation, and control requirements for 3PL partners.
- Monitor 3PL inventory performance through defined KPIs, service-level agreements, and inventory accuracy metrics.
- Conduct regular inventory performance reviews with 3PL partners and drive corrective actions were performance falls below expectations.
- Develop scalable processes for reconciling high-volume inventory transactions between internal and 3PL systems.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for significant inventory discrepancies and control issues involving external logistics partners.
Big Data, Analytics & Reporting
- Lead the analysis of large, complex datasets to identify inventory discrepancies, trends, anomalies, operational risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Develop advanced inventory analytics and reporting capabilities that provide actionable insights to operational teams and senior leadership.
- Design and maintain inventory dashboards, scorecards, exception reports, and management reporting.
- Establish automated and exception-based reporting to improve the speed and effectiveness of inventory control activities.
- Translate complex datasets into clear business insights, recommendations, and executive-level communications.
- Leverage data to perform root-cause analysis and identify systemic inventory issues across systems, locations, products, and logistics partners.
- Drive improvements in data quality, data governance, and reporting consistency across the inventory management ecosystem.
SAP & Systems
- Serve as a subject-matter expert in SAP inventory processes and associated inventory transactions.
- Leverage SAP data and functionality to support inventory reconciliation, reporting, root-cause analysis, and controls.
- Partner with IT and business systems teams to improve inventory-related system functionality, integrations, master data, and reporting.
- Identify opportunities to automate inventory controls and reconciliation processes.
- Support system implementations, upgrades, integrations, and process changes affecting inventory management.
- Ensure strong understanding and documentation of inventory data flows between SAP, EWM platforms, 3PL systems, and reporting environments.
Leadership & Continuous Improvement
- Lead, develop, and mentor inventory control and analytics professionals, establishing clear expectations and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Build strong cross-functional relationships with Supply Chain, Logistics, Distribution, Finance, Accounting, IT, Procurement, and other business partners.
- Establish a robust inventory control framework with clear ownership, governance, KPIs, and escalation protocols.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives focused on improving inventory accuracy, reducing reconciliation effort, eliminating recurring discrepancies, and strengthening controls.
- Champion process standardization and automation across locations and 3PL partners.
- Present inventory performance, risks, root causes, and improvement plans to senior leadership.
- Influence stakeholders across the organization to drive resolution of complex inventory issues and implementation of sustainable process improvements.
Key Performance Indicators
Success in this role will be measured through metrics such as:
- Inventory accuracy and reconciliation performance
- SAP-to-3PL inventory alignment
- Value and volume of unresolved inventory discrepancies
- Cycle count accuracy
- Aging of reconciliation items
- Inventory adjustment levels
- Root-cause resolution and recurrence rates
- 3PL inventory performance
- Reporting accuracy and timeliness
- Reduction in manual reconciliation activities
- Implementation of automation and continuous improvement initiatives
- Forecast vs consumption reconciliation
- Others
Qualifications
Required
- Masters's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Business Analytics, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- Significant professional experience in inventory control, supply chain, logistics, operations, or related functions, includi