Description & Requirements
About the Role
As the Warehouse Operations Analyst, you will collaborate and build rapport with Harman’s third-party logistics (3PL) vendors and Harman’s support functions. Your primary responsibility will be overseeing the planning, execution, and administrative duties for daily operations. This includes ownership of returns processing, stock transfers, inventory management, rework, and continuous improvement projects. You will collate, analyze, and interpret data and present your findings and recommendations for improvement. You will work with Harman’s cross-functional teams across Transportation, Supply Chain, Sales, Order Management, and more to ensure a world class end-to-end experience for our customers.
What You Will Do
- Support inbound operations ensuring warehouse capacities meet Harman’s requirements for receiving, rework, and exception processing.
- Report warehouse inbound performance results and initiate action plans to address root causes to improve inventory accuracy, on-time receiving, and additional KPIs.
- Maximize inventory availability and reduce back orders by owning rework communication, planning, and execution.
- Implement, supervise, and improve Harman’s returns process through collaboration and data analysis.
- Lead inbound and inventory projects, driving KPI and throughput improvements.
- Responsible for inventory management across Harman’s plants, ensuring system-to-system accuracy and physical/virtual matching.
- Direct daily, monthly, and quarterly inventory management and recognition activities with Harman’s 3PLs, including monthly revenue recognition, monthly and quarterly inventory adjustments, and other internal reporting requirements and actions.
- Deep dive and resolve issues pertaining to system-to-system errors to improve cycle time between order placement and customer receipt of goods.
- Maintain Harman master data driving logistics execution with 3PL fulfillment partners (value-added services, dangerous good classification, etc.)
What You Need to Be Successful
- Bachelor's Degree, preferably with a degree in SCM, Operations, Industrial Engineering, or Management, or equivalent industry experience.
- Minimum 3 years of data analysis experience, preferably in a warehouse environment.
- Ability to solve problems and analyze data using MS Excel/Access.
- Highly proficient in ERP material (ie, SAP) and inventory management transactions.
Bonus Points if You Have
- Six Sigma Green Belt or higher
- APICS certification
- SAP experience
What Makes You Eligible
- Be willing to travel up to 10%
- Be willing to work in a warehouse onsite in Shepherdsville, Kentucky.
- Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
What We Offer
- Competitive wellness benefits and 401K Retirement Savings plan.
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities.
- Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment.
- Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies and extensive course catalog.
- Tuition Reimbursement.
- Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN products (JBL, Harman/Kardon, etc.).
- “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.
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Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation are also available, such as bonuses or commission.
Pay is based on a wide range of factors, including, without limitation, skill set, experience, training, location, and business need. While the above range is a reasonable estimate of the wage range for this position, please note the disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential associated with the location where the position may be filled.