Wholegoods Inventory Manager

Brandt is seeking an experienced and motivated leader to join our Ballarat Head Office as our Wholegoods Inventory Manager.

This is an opportunity to step into a critical leadership role within a growing global organisation, where you'll shape inventory strategy, influence business decisions, and lead a high-performing team responsible for managing millions of dollars in equipment inventory across Australia and New Zealand.

If you're passionate about operational excellence, supply chain management, continuous improvement, and leading people, this could be the next step in your career.

As Wholegoods Inventory Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the planning, management, and distribution of Wholegoods inventory across the Brandt network. Working closely with Sales, Operations, Finance, Logistics, and our manufacturing partners, you'll play a key role in ensuring the right equipment is in the right place at the right time.

This role offers a unique combination of leadership, strategy, analytics, and operational execution.

• →Provide leadership and management to drive continuous improvement in product planning, order management, stocking levels, and distribution process.
• →Oversee maintenance, administration, and analysis of the Estimate to Cash process.
• →Manage all new machine order placement and inventory creation processes.
• →Lead the tracking and analysis of asset configurations, sales history, and trends.
• →Accountable for stocking logic management of all dealerships, and Corporate Pool locations.
• →Responsible for strategic implementation and inventory management of all future locations.
• →Working with vendors to understand order lead times, future constraints, or products changes.
• →Implement supply chain solutions to provide the most efficient service to dealership locations, while helping to control costs.
• →Provide guidance and broad communication to sales leadership and operations teams.
• →Work close with Logistics teams to assist in Pre-Delivery Inspection scheduling.
• →Provide training and guidance to the team and ensure they have the necessary product knowledge to effectively manage the inventory within their area of responsibility.
• →Ensure new processes and tools are implemented across all Brandt Tractor locations.
• →Review freight costs to ensure competitive rates
• →Ensure removed attachments are analyzed, priced appropriately and planned for future use.
• →Other duties as assigned.

Brandt is a world-leading equipment dealer, powered by iconic brands and unrivalled support. With dealerships across Canada, New Zealand and Australia, Brandt is a global team with one shared purpose. Its mission is focused on enabling customer success by providing practical and reliable equipment solutions and support. Customers count on Brandt to keep them moving forward, with remarkable customer service and industry-leading brands; John Deere, Giltrap, Kramer, Duncan, and Stihl.