Inventory Disposition Specialist

The Inventory Optimization Disposition Specialist is accountable for identifying, developing, and executing value recovery strategies for slow-moving, excess, obsolete, shelf-life-risk, and blocked raw materials and finished goods. This role proactively partners with Sales, Customer Service, Supply Chain, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, and Finance to identify approved disposition opportunities that maximize inventory recovery and minimize waste.

The role owns each opportunity from identification through verified disposition, including outlet development, stakeholder alignment, approval coordination, execution oversight, system reconciliation, and results reporting. Success is measured by realized inventory recovery outcomes and reduction of inventory exposure, not simply by identifying risk or referring opportunities.

The position evaluates a broad range of recovery options, including customer sales opportunities, new market channels, broker arrangements, supplier returns, inter-site transfers, rework, recycling, and approved disposal alternatives. Scrap or destruction is considered only after feasible recovery alternatives have been evaluated and documented, unless immediate disposal is required for safety, quality, or regulatory compliance.

Planning ownership, demand forecasting, purchasing parameters, inventory policies, and systemic process changes remain with the appropriate functional owners.