Consultant Supply Chain
About the role
You'll be part of a team ensuring the efficient fulfillment of the inventory that powers Verizon. In this role, you will provide the tactical oversight that drives daily execution, focusing heavily on data analysis, systematic transactions, and order tracking to ensure our 3PL partners meet our high standards.
Responsibilities
- Track critical orders and perform reconciliations between our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and the 3PL’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) to ensure seamless data flows.
- Analyze large sets of warehouse operational data to identify trends, pinpoint process friction, and present concise recommendations for weekly action.
- Monitor key performance indicator (KPI) execution across metrics such as receiving dock-to-stock, order accuracy, and on-time delivery.
- Ensure the accuracy of physical and systematic inventory by performing complex inventory reconciliations and auditing 3PL inventory control processes.
- Actively manage daily operational exceptions, working directly with 3PL supervisors to resolve shipping or receiving delays.
- Generate, maintain, and automate reporting to distill tactical insights for the broader supply chain team.
- Support the rollout of supply chain projects designed to improve customer experience or reduce expense.
- Document and continually refine standard operating procedures (SOPs) for systematic and physical workflows.
Requirements
You have a passion for ensuring the fulfillment of customer expectations with both speed and uncompromising accuracy. You have a knack for diving deep into large datasets and transactional logs to figure out exactly what happened and why. You enjoy analyzing the steps in a process flow, identifying points of friction, and understanding how upstream actions affect downstream results. You aren't afraid to step into the details, perform routine audits, take samples, and measure KPIs firsthand to ensure success.
- Bachelor’s degree or six or more years of work experience.
- Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
- Experience with ownership of planning, forecasting, production, or reporting and analysis.
- Supply chain, logistics, or inventory management experience.
- Experience with Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets skills.
Qualifications
The following qualifications are preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Analytics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience in large scale operations, distribution, or manufacturing.
- Experience with a warehouse management system (WMS) and ERP systematic transactions.
- Proficiency in SAP.
- Experience utilizing data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker) or process visualization software (e.g., Microsoft Visio).
Schedule
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Scheduled weekly hours are 40.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon.
- Health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and group home & auto insurance.
- Matched 401(k) savings plan.
- Up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year.
- Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition assistance.
- Other incentives, including premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, and allowances.
- Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service.
Pay
The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive-based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.