Senior Manager, Inventory Controls & Analytics

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

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Bristol Myers Squibb has been active in the Dutch market for over 50 years, employing people across a range of activities and business units in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

 

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Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Inventory Controls & Analytics is a key leadership role responsible for establishing and maintaining best-in-class inventory control, reconciliation, analytics, and reporting processes across the organization and its third-party logistics (3PL) network.

This role combines deep inventory management expertise with advanced data analytics, SAP knowledge, and strong leadership capabilities. The Senior Manager will be accountable for inventory accuracy and integrity, ensuring timely reconciliation between internal systems, SAP, 3PL partners, and physical inventory while identifying and addressing the root causes of discrepancies.

The successful candidate will be highly analytical, comfortable working with large and complex datasets, and capable of transforming data into actionable insights for senior leadership. This individual will lead continuous improvement initiatives, strengthen inventory governance and controls, and partner cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Operations, IT, and external 3PL providers.

Key Responsibilities

Inventory Control & Reconciliation

• Own and oversee end-to-end inventory control and reconciliation processes across internal operations and external 3PL locations.
• Ensure inventory balances are accurately reconciled between SAP, warehouse management systems (EWM), 3PL systems, and physical inventory.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of inventory discrepancies, including identification of root causes and implementation of sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Establish inventory accuracy standards, controls, tolerances, escalation processes, and governance mechanisms.
• Oversee cycle count programs, physical inventory activities, inventory adjustments, and reconciliation processes.
• Monitor inventory movements and transactions to proactively identify data integrity issues, process failures, and emerging risks.
• Partner with Finance to ensure inventory balances and adjustments are appropriately reconciled and supported.

3PL Inventory Management

• Lead inventory reconciliation and control activities across third-party logistics providers.
• Establish clear inventory reporting, reconciliation, and control requirements for 3PL partners.
• Monitor 3PL inventory performance through defined KPIs, service-level agreements, and inventory accuracy metrics.
• Conduct regular inventory performance reviews with 3PL partners and drive corrective actions were performance falls below expectations.
• Develop scalable processes for reconciling high-volume inventory transactions between internal and 3PL systems.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for significant inventory discrepancies and control issues involving external logistics partners.

Big Data, Analytics & Reporting

• Lead the analysis of large, complex datasets to identify inventory discrepancies, trends, anomalies, operational risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop advanced inventory analytics and reporting capabilities that provide actionable insights to operational teams and senior leadership.
• Design and maintain inventory dashboards, scorecards, exception reports, and management reporting.
• Establish automated and exception-based reporting to improve the speed and effectiveness of inventory control activities.
• Translate complex datasets into clear business insights, recommendations, and executive-level communications.
• Leverage data to perform root-cause analysis and identify systemic inventory issues across systems, locations, products, and logistics partners.
• Drive improvements in data quality, data governance, and reporting consistency across the inventory management ecosystem.

SAP & Systems

• Serve as a subject-matter expert in SAP inventory processes and associated inventory transactions.
• Leverage SAP data and functionality to support inventory reconciliation, reporting, root-cause analysis, and controls.
• Partner with IT and business systems teams to improve inventory-related system functionality, integrations, master data, and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to automate inventory controls and reconciliation processes.
• Support system implementations, upgrades, integrations, and process changes affecting inventory management.
• Ensure strong understanding and documentation of inventory data flows between SAP, EWM platforms, 3PL systems, and reporting environments.

Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Lead, develop, and mentor inventory control and analytics professionals, establishing clear expectations and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships with Supply Chain, Logistics, Distribution, Finance, Accounting, IT, Procurement, and other business partners.
• Establish a robust inventory control framework with clear ownership, governance, KPIs, and escalation protocols.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives focused on improving inventory accuracy, reducing reconciliation effort, eliminating recurring discrepancies, and strengthening controls.
• Champion process standardization and automation across locations and 3PL partners.
• Present inventory performance, risks, root causes, and improvement plans to senior leadership.
• Influence stakeholders across the organization to drive resolution of complex inventory issues and implementation of sustainable process improvements.

Key Performance Indicators

Success in this role will be measured through metrics such as:

• Inventory accuracy and reconciliation performance
• SAP-to-3PL inventory alignment
• Value and volume of unresolved inventory discrepancies
• Cycle count accuracy
• Aging of reconciliation items
• Inventory adjustment levels
• Root-cause resolution and recurrence rates
• 3PL inventory performance
• Reporting accuracy and timeliness
• Reduction in manual reconciliation activities
• Implementation of automation and continuous improvement initiatives
• Forecast vs consumption reconciliation
• Others

Qualifications

Required

• Masters's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Business Analytics, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Significant professional experience in inventory control, supply chain, logistics, operations, or related functions, including experience in a senior management or leadership capacity.
• Extensive experience working with large and complex datasets, including advanced analytics, data validation, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Strong SAP knowledge, particularly inventory management, inventory transactions, and reconciliation processes.
• Demonstrated experience managing inventory reconciliation across internal systems and third-party logistics providers.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a strong ability to perform complex root-cause analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to develop executive-level dashboards, reporting, KPIs, and actionable business insights.
• Strong understanding of inventory controls, cycle counting, physical inventory, inventory adjustments, and transaction management.
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to lead teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex analytical findings clearly to senior leadership.

Preferred

• Advanced experience with SAP S/4HANA and/or SAP ECC.
• Experience with warehouse management systems and 3PL technology platforms.
• Experience with advanced analytics and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, Claude or similar technologies.
• Experience developing automated inventory reconciliation and exception-management solutions.
• Knowledge of internal controls, financial inventory reconciliation, audit requirements, and inventory accounting principles.
• Experience managing inventory within complex, high-volume, multi-site, or global supply chain environments.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement certification or experience.

Leadership Competencies

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strategic Leadership: Ability to develop a long-term vision for inventory controls while maintaining strong operational execution.
• Analytical Excellence: Exceptional ability to interpret large datasets, identify patterns and anomalies, and translate analysis into business action.
• Accountability: Strong ownership mentality with a focus on inventory integrity, timely resolution, and measurable results.
• Influence: Ability to drive change and accountability across internal teams and external 3PL partners.
• Problem Solving: Structured, data-driven approach to diagnosing complex inventory and system issues.
• Communication: Ability to simplify complex information and communicate effectively from operational teams through executive leadership.
• Continuous Improvement: Strong orientation toward automation, process simplification, standardization, scalability, and sustainable controls.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a data-driven supply chain leader who combines deep inventory control expertise with strong technical, analytical, and leadership capabilities. They are equally comfortable analysing millions of inventory transactions, investigating an SAP-to-3PL reconciliation discrepancy, challenging an external logistics provider on performance, and presenting inventory risks and corrective actions to senior executives.

This individual will bring a control-oriented mindset while continuously looking for opportunities to use data, technology, automation, and process improvement to create a more accurate, scalable, and proactive inventory management environment.

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Why You Should Apply

 

Around the world, we are passionate about making an impact on the lives of patients with serious diseases. Empowered to apply our individual talents and diverse perspectives in an inclusive culture, our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

 

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.

We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

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