Director, Inventory Allocation and Control

Location: Seoul, South Korea; full-time regular position with a 12-week probation period.

Company

hirify.global is a South Korean commerce company building high-tech shopping, eating, and living experiences through a startup culture supported by the resources of a large global public company.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end inventory planning policy, governance, and execution across short-, medium-, and long-term horizons.
• Lead Days of Cover management, inbound planning, capacity alignment, ordering governance, replenishment controls, and visibility into operational constraints.
• Balance commercial growth, customer availability, fulfillment capacity, working capital, and margin through clear planning decisions.
• Partner with senior cross-functional stakeholders to identify risks, resolve bottlenecks, and ensure inventory and inbound plans are operationally executable.
• Lead planning for seasonal and holiday events, including buildup strategy, capacity readiness, vendor execution, and post-event learning.
• Build scalable mechanisms, dashboards, agents, and workflows; provide inputs for business reviews, annual planning, goal-setting, and executive operating discussions; and lead a high-performing inventory and inbound planning team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, engineering, operations, economics, analytics, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in retail planning, supply chain planning, inventory management, S&OP, commercial operations, or operations planning.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience, including management of senior managers, managers, or senior individual contributors.
• Strong understanding of inventory planning, replenishment, inbound planning, capacity planning, and demand-supply tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated ability to balance business growth, customer experience, operational constraints, and financial outcomes.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, ambiguous, data-driven environment and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong analytical judgment, business communication, and executive-level narrative-building skills.
• Ability to build scalable mechanisms and improve operating processes rather than only manage recurring execution.

Nice to have

• Experience in e-commerce, retail, marketplace, consumer goods, logistics, distribution, or high-volume supply chain environments.
• Experience working across commercial and operations teams while managing availability, capacity, cost, and growth tradeoffs.
• Experience leading S&OP, inventory control, inbound planning, ordering governance, or capacity management functions.
• Experience building planning automation, control towers, dashboards, decision-support systems, or agent-based workflows.
• MBA or master's degree; Korean language ability; or familiarity with SQL, BI tools, forecasting, or optimization methods.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup culture with the resources of a large global public company.
• Entrepreneurial environment focused on hands-on impact, innovation, simplification, ownership, and cross-functional accountability.
• Full-time regular employment with a 12-week probation period that may be skipped, shortened, or extended according to business needs.
• Employment protection recipients, including veterans' benefits recipients and disabled applicants, may receive preferential treatment in accordance with applicable laws.

Hiring process

• Application review, job fit interview, focus interview, and offer.
• The process may vary according to the role and scheduling circumstances; interview schedules and results are communicated by email.