Pricing & Inventory Analyst

Pricing & Inventory Analyst

Department: Merchandising

Reports to: VP of Merchandising

Location: Seattle / Remote

Type: Full-time

About BuyWander

BuyWander is rebuilding the $850B retail returns industry. We take chaotic truckloads of returned goods and transform them into a fast, fun, treasure-hunt shopping experience powered by AI, real-time auctions, and in-store pickup.

The Role

Every night we list thousands of items whose retail reference price drives our recovery rates, our margins, and our customers' trust. You'll own the integrity of that pricing pipeline end to end: validating the manifest data we receive from suppliers, verifying what actually posts to the site, and forecasting what each truckload should earn - then flagging fast when reality diverges. You'll be the person who catches a mispriced load before it costs us margin, not after.

This is a high-leverage, build-it-yourself role. We expect you to use modern AI tooling to work like a larger team - and to bring the discipline to verify everything it produces.

What You'll Do

• Validate inbound manifest data. Build automated checks on supplier manifests - item counts, UPC/ASIN matching, retail-price reasonableness, category mix - so bad data is caught before it prices a load.
• Audit listed pricing at scale. Develop scripts that reconcile our listed prices against Amazon and other retailer reference prices daily across 10,000+ nightly listings, identifying systematic errors (wrong price basis, stale data, unit-of-measure issues) rather than one-offs.
• Build variance reporting. Stand up dashboards and alerts (we run Metabase) that surface pricing anomalies and recovery-rate outliers by load, source, and market - within hours, not weeks.
• Forecast load-level revenue. Develop expected-revenue models for each truckload based on manifest retail value, source, category mix, and historical recovery curves; track actual versus forecast as the load sells through, so under-performance is visible while we can still act on it.
• Partner cross-functionally. Work with Merchandising on source scorecards and buy decisions, Finance on margin attribution, and Operations on loads whose forecast-to-actual gaps point to processing or inventory-control issues.