Inventory Analyst

Overview

At Lupa, we're hiring for an Inventory Analyst to join a fast-growing, venture-backed food innovation company on a mission to make better-for-you snacks that are delicious, healthier, and beautifully designed. Starting with a single stroopwafel product in 2012, the company's portfolio of low-sugar snacks is now sold in 14,000+ retail locations across Club, Grocery, Natural, Convenience, Food Service, Target, and Online (including Amazon).

This is a hands-on, detail-intensive role at the heart of the Supply Chain team. You'll take ownership of day-to-day inventory execution across a network of 3PLs, co-manufacturers, and distribution partners — keeping product accurate, fresh, and moving, and spotting problems before they turn into losses. If you love bringing order to messy data, thrive in a fully remote startup, and want to see the direct impact of your work on a growing consumer brand, this one's for you.

What You'll Do

Inventory control & reconciliation

• Own the weekly inventory reconciliation process across all storage points — 3PL warehouses, co-manufacturer facilities, and Amazon FBA/FBM — resolving quantity, lot, and status discrepancies between the ERP (NetSuite) and each partner's WMS.

• Manage internal finished goods transfers between warehouses, coordinating with Logistics, warehouse partners, and co-manufacturers to position product where demand requires it.

• Manage inventory transfers to and within Amazon (FBA replenishment, removal orders, stranded inventory) and monitor inventory health for aging, unfulfillable, or excess units.

• Support physical inventory counts: prepare count sheets, participate in counts, reconcile results, and follow up on adjustments.

• Support Finance with inventory data for month-end close, audit requests, and due diligence.

Shelf life, rotation & at-risk inventory

• Enforce FEFO (First Expired, First Out) rotation across all warehouses and resolve deviations with 3PL partners.

• Track code dates and shelf-life thresholds, flag at-risk lots early, and propose disposition actions (liquidation, donation, write-off) with supporting data.

• Own the weekly Inventory Report and lead the weekly At-Risk Inventory meeting — preparing data, presenting findings, and driving decisions.

• Own the inventory section of the monthly S&OP meeting, presenting inventory health and recommendations to cross-functional leadership.

• For every inventory loss, document root cause and propose a "fix-it-forever" solution; maintain the FIF tracker and follow through on corrective actions.

Distributor & channel inventory monitoring

• Monitor inventory at key distributors (e.g. KeHE, UNFI, McLane), cross-referencing positions against sell-through velocity and shelf life to catch at-risk product early.

• Coordinate with Sales and Customer Ops on interventions (promotions, swaps, returns, markdowns).

• Track and manage deductions related to spoilage and returns, investigate root causes, and work with Finance to dispute invalid claims or process valid ones.

• Review and validate warehouse invoices across 3PL partners, flagging discrepancies in storage, handling, and VAS billing.

Inventory data, reporting & analysis

• Maintain and improve the Inventory Dashboard: on-hand positions, weeks of supply, at-risk exposure, aging analysis, and FEFO compliance.

• Build ad hoc analyses — cost-of-loss scenarios, disposition trade-offs, shelf-life extension evaluations, and warehouse performance comparisons.

• Partner with Demand and Supply Planning to validate projections and flag overstock or out-of-stock risks.

• Ensure accurate bills of material are documented for Finance and keep the Master Specification Sheet accurate for SKUs, specs, and status.

Who You Are

Must-haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Business, Data Analysis, or a related field.

• 5+ years of inventory management experience within a CPG company, ideally in the US market and the food industry.

• Hands-on experience with 3PL warehouses: inventory reconciliation, WMS data, cycle counts, and operational coordination.

• Solid grasp of inventory fundamentals: FEFO/FIFO rotation, cycle counts, shelf-life management, lot tracking, and disposition workflows.

• Experience with ERP systems (NetSuite preferred) and warehouse management systems.

• Expert-level Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH, data modeling) and Google Sheets.

• Fluent English, written and spoken, to work daily with a US-based team and external partners.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience managing products with limited shelf life.

• A modern, tech-forward mindset — comfort adopting AI and automation tools to work smarter, not just harder.

• A root-cause thinker who fixes problems permanently, not just the symptoms.

• Proactive over reactive: you watch leading indicators and act before issues escalate.

• Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth startup where priorities shift and resourcefulness matters.

What's In It For You

• Compensation: Competitive salary benchmarked to the Argentine market, paid in USD.

• Fully remote role, based in Argentina (Buenos Aires or nearby preferred).

• Working hours: 9 AM – 6 PM ET to align with the US-based team.

• Growth: Join a ~40-person, venture-backed, fully remote team across the US, Argentina, and Spain, with real ownership and visibility to senior leadership through S&OP and weekly inventory meetings.

• 18 days PTO, OSDE 210

Application

Ready to bring accuracy, foresight, and a fix-it-forever mindset to a growing snack brand? We'd love to hear from you. Apply through Lupa today — our recruiting team will review your profile and reach out to walk you through the next steps. We move quickly, so don't wait.