Inventory Manager (AI)

Location: Hybrid, Punto Polanco, Mexico

Company

hirify.global develops flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and Health & Biosciences technologies for healthcare, food, consumer, and industrial markets.

What you will do

• Own and execute the Health & Biosciences inventory optimization roadmap across business units, regions, sites, product families, and inventory categories.
• Translate working-capital and inventory objectives into prioritized actions with accountable owners, timelines, expected benefits, risks, and escalation paths.
• Lead governance for slow-moving, obsolete, and excess inventory, including root-cause analysis, prevention, disposition, value recovery, and sustained improvement verification.
• Improve inventory segmentation, safety stocks, stocking strategies, planning parameters, deployment, and inventory balance across plants, distribution centers, and regions.
• Partner with technical teams on AI, analytics, and automation initiatives, translating model outputs into practical inventory actions.
• Integrate inventory priorities into S&OE, SIOP, and the broader operating system while validating financial outcomes with Finance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Substantial experience in inventory management, inventory optimization, supply planning, materials planning, production planning, IBP, S&OP, or supply-chain analytics in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated results in working capital, inventory, SLOB, scrap, or inventory-tail improvement.
• Deep knowledge of inventory strategy, segmentation, safety-stock optimization, stocking policies, planning parameters, and service-level trade-offs.
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams in a global matrix environment and partnering with technical teams on AI, advanced analytics, automation, or digital supply-chain solutions.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-enabled inventory optimization, control towers, forecasting, exception management, SLOB reduction, or working-capital solutions.
• Experience with SAP, SAP IBP, Power BI, data visualization, or workflow automation.
• APICS CPIM, CSCP, or comparable certification.
• Experience facilitating S&OE, SIOP, or IBP rhythms in process industries, life sciences, food ingredients, biotechnology, or complex global manufacturing.

Culture & Benefits

• Enterprise-wide ownership of an inventory agenda with measurable working-capital and operational objectives.
• Opportunity to shape the use of AI, advanced analytics, and automation in supply-chain decisions.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Planning, Manufacturing, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, Logistics, Quality, Digital, Data Science, and Automation teams.
• Autonomy to set priorities, challenge decisions constructively, and build scalable inventory-management standards.
• Inclusive workplace focused on diversity and enabling colleagues to bring their authentic selves to work.