3PM Supply Execution & Inventory Analyst

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States; onsite corporate office role with up to 10–15% travel. Must be able to travel by plane or train for long-distance trips and lift up to 25 lbs. regularly.

Salary: $69,500–$102,100 per year.

Company

Consumer products and manufacturing organization supporting acquisitions, new-to-world brands, and third-party manufacturing networks.

What you will do

• Execute daily production, inventory, customer order, deployment, and logistics activities across third-party manufacturers, warehouses, logistics providers, and customers.
• Review production orders, schedules, confirmations, material usage, finished-goods receipts, shipment milestones, inventory in transit, and delivery status.
• Maintain SAP transactions including production confirmations, goods receipts, stock transfers, post goods issue activity, customer orders, and execution data; resolve or escalate exceptions.
• Reconcile inventory between SAP, warehouse records, and third-party manufacturer reports; investigate variances, document root causes, and coordinate corrective actions.
• Support service recovery, supply risk mitigation, month-end close, financial controls, invoice discrepancy research, inventory health, product lifecycle disposition, and related documentation.
• Maintain KPI and scorecard inputs, develop analytics and recommendations, document workflows, identify control gaps, and support standardized or automated cross-functional processes and backup coverage.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field.
• Progressive experience in supply chain, planning, operations, commercialization, customer service, logistics, or analytics.
• Experience working in an ERP environment; SAP experience is strongly preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency.
• Strong analytical, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage detailed transactional work while identifying broader process, cost, inventory, service, and customer implications.
• Ability to shift priorities, learn across workstreams, and provide reliable backup coverage in a dynamic integration environment.
• Ability to work in a professional corporate office environment, sit and/or stand for extended periods, and work on a computer and phone for extended periods.
• Must be at least 21 years of age.

Nice to have

• APICS/ASCM certification.
• CPG, beverage alcohol, or manufacturing experience.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, business integrations, or third-party manufacturing networks.
• Experience with SAP IBP, O9, Blue Yonder/JDA, Ariba, Power BI, or similar tools.
• Experience with Power BI or a similar reporting tool.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with Materials Planning, S&OP, S&OE, Procurement, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, Transportation, Warehousing, Customer Management, Sales, Marketing, and Brand teams.
• External collaboration with third-party manufacturers, suppliers, logistics providers, and warehousing partners.
• Benefits include paid time off, medical, dental and vision insurance, and a 401(k).
• Work emphasizes ownership, accountability, data-driven decision-making, continuous improvement, adaptability, process scalability, and one-team collaboration.