Inventory Analyst

Yolk Brands is a multi-concept hospitality group that operates modern food brands including Pickl, BonBird, and SouthPour. The company focuses on delivering high-quality dining experiences with strong operational standards and consistent product quality. Yolk Brands emphasizes efficient restaurant operations, reliable supply chains, and well-managed inventories to support rapid growth. Team members join a dynamic environment that values collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. The organization offers opportunities to contribute to scalable processes and data-informed decision-making across its brands.

The Inventory Analyst is responsible for the effective management, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the company’s inventory management system across the UAE and International markets.

The role acts as the key point of contact for system administration, ensuring that recipes, products, suppliers, users, sites, food safety requirements, and operational data are accurately maintained and consistently implemented across all markets.

The position also plays a critical analytical role, providing regular reports, insights, and performance analysis to support operational, financial, supply chain, and management decision-making.

The ideal candidate will have strong attention to detail, excellent system and data management skills, a good understanding of restaurant operations and inventory processes, and the ability to manage multiple markets and stakeholders effectively.

Key Responsibilities Inventory Management System

• Own and manage the inventory management system across the UAE and international markets.
• Ensure the system remains accurate, up to date, and aligned with operational requirements.
• Maintain system structures, configurations, master data, and operational settings.
• Identify opportunities to improve system utilisation, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Act as the primary point of contact for system-related queries and support.

Recipe & Product Management

• Create, maintain, and update recipes within the system.
• Ensure recipe specifications, ingredients, yields, portions, and associated costs are accurately maintained.
• Manage new product and ingredient setup.
• Ensure recipe and product changes are implemented consistently across relevant markets and sites.
• Work closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Finance teams to ensure data accuracy.

Supplier Management

• Onboard new suppliers and maintain existing supplier information within the system.
• Update supplier products, pricing, pack sizes, units of measure, and other relevant information.
• Ensure supplier changes are accurately reflected across the appropriate markets and sites.
• Support the Supply Chain team with supplier and product data requirements.

New Site & Market Setup

• Create and configure new restaurant sites within the inventory management system.
• Ensure new sites are correctly set up with the appropriate products, recipes, suppliers, users, stock locations, and operational parameters.
• Support system implementation for new market openings and ensure readiness prior to launch.
• Coordinate with relevant teams to ensure system setup aligns with operational requirements.

User Management & Training

• Manage user access, permissions, roles, and profiles across all markets.
• Ensure users have the appropriate system access based on their responsibilities.
• Support onboarding of new users and provide system training where required.
• Monitor system usage and identify areas where additional training or support may be required.

Food Safety & Compliance

• Maintain and manage food safety checklists within the system.
• Ensure food safety procedures and checklists are correctly configured and available across relevant sites.
• Support the implementation of new food safety requirements and updates.
• Monitor completion and compliance data and highlight areas requiring attention.

Reporting & Analytics

• Produce regular analytical reports across the UAE and international markets.
• Provide reporting on inventory, food cost, recipe performance, purchasing, wastage, variances, compliance, and other relevant KPIs.
• Analyse data to identify trends, discrepancies, operational issues, and opportunities for improvement.
• Provide clear and actionable insights to senior management and relevant departments.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and recurring management reports.
• Ensure reporting is accurate, timely, and presented in a clear and commercially useful format.

In addition to the key responsibilities outlined above, the employee may be required to perform other duties as assigned by management. These tasks will be within reasonable expectations of the role and in alignment with business needs.