Purchasing Inventory Manager Jobs in Mount Pleasant, SC

Job Summary:

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Driving a safe workplace by proactively reporting hazards, incidents, and nearmisses while consistently complying with all HSE standards, procedures, and required training.
• Upholding quality excellence through strict adherence to standard work, accurate process documentation, and timely quality checks that strengthen PFEP data integrity.
• Resolving material issues by partnering with Quality to disposition nonconforming material quickly, protecting production flow and customer satisfaction.
• Optimizing delivery performance by managing part changes, rampup/rampdown activities, and inventory readiness to meet global aftermarket demand while minimizing excess and obsolete stock.
• Ensuring compliant part setup by coordinating with Purchasing and support teams to establish correct sourcing, initiate No Source Cases, and maintain full Hazmat compliance with internal and regulatory requirements.
• Strengthening inventory health through bankbuild coordination, demand monitoring, planning parameter improvements, and rootcause analysis that reduces E&O and supports smarter supply decisions.
• Building strong team alignment by communicating clearly across planning, purchasing, quality, and product management teams to ensure shared understanding and smooth execution of daily and strategic activities.
• Growing through continuous improvement by completing required training, contributing to safety, quality, and processflow projects, and remaining flexible to support evolving business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze inventory data to identify discrepancies, trends, and systemic issues impacting inventory accuracy
• Perform root cause analysis for inventory variances related to production, receiving, storage, picking, and shipping activities
• Conduct physical investigations on the plant floor to trace parts, validate transactions, and observe processes contributing to inventory discrepancies
• Reconcile system inventory to physical counts and support cycle counts and physical inventories
• Partner cross-departmentally (Operations, Warehouse, Planning, Quality, Engineering, Finance) to identify process gaps and breakdowns
• Document findings and recommend corrective and preventive actions to improve inventory controls
• Support the development and improvement of standard work, procedures, and controls related to inventory management
• Monitor effectiveness of corrective actions and track sustained improvements in inventory accuracy
• Prepare reports and communicate findings to leadership with clear, data-driven insights

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Finance, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience in inventory control, materials management, or supply chain analytics in a manufacturing or distribution environment
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate findings into actionable insights
• Comfort working in both office and plant-floor environments
• Ability to work cross-functionally and influence without direct authority
• Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills
• Proficiency in ERP systems and Microsoft Excel (or similar data analysis tools)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cycle counting programs and physical inventory processes
• Familiarity with lean manufacturing or continuous improvement methodologies
• Experience identifying and closing internal control gaps related to inventory

Key Competencies

• Attention to detail
• Process-oriented mindset
• Clear and concise communication
• Ability to balance data analysis with hands-on investigation
• Continuous improvement focus

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Clear, adaptive communication to deliver multimode messages that fit the needs of planners, engineers, suppliers, and leadership, ensuring alignment across all supplychain activities.
• Customerfocused decision making to build strong relationships, understand downstream impact, and ensure planning, scheduling, and changecontrol actions support customer delivery requirements.
• Resultsdriven execution to consistently meet deadlines, manage competing priorities, and maintain performance under pressure while driving measurable improvements.
• Complexity and process mastery to interpret large, sometimes contradictory data sets; optimize work processes; and apply PFEP principles across master data, material flows, transport, and warehouse management.
• Advanced planningsystem capability to leverage the materials planning system as your primary tool-managing supply/demand, resolving exception messages, executing partchange control, and maintaining a valid Master Production Schedule.
• KPIdriven analytical judgment to interpret materials KPIs, understand customer impact, balance tradeoffs, and influence improvements in scheduling, inventory health, and overall supplychain performance.

Education/Experience

This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.