Replenishment Lead, 100% Onsite

About the role

The role sits in the Replenishment Buying organization and is stationed at the Market level. It involves running supporting operations for Replenishment activities within a market, owning logistics, sales, and costing coordination for product orders. The role acts as the face of Replenishment in the market and works with the VP Sales and VP Operations to ensure any immediate need for a product is met.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the Replenishment function at the Market delivers on commitments, including maintaining continuity of product supply, while meeting key performance service indicators (KPI)
• Connect the market to the Replenishment Service Center (RSC) through constant communication, update calls, and collaboration with the RSC on demand changes and special projects
• Monitor the quality of inbound products and execute replenishment functions according to US Foods policies and procedures
• Provide subject matter expertise on the supply chain systems, replenishment policies, and procedures
• Manage Replenishment Assistants who support Replenishment operations in the market

Essential Responsibilities

• Daily replenishment duties and KPI monitoring: Work with Area Buyers and Replenishment Assistants to ensure key Replenishment functions are being fulfilled
• Monitors inbound product for quality levels and investigates any product concerns and product returned from customer due to quality concerns
• Manages and executes at the direction of Category Management, the removal of slow, dead, excess, and obsolete inventory
• Assists and follows up on inventory management concerns including spoilage, alert date product, and suspense inventory with Category Management
• Tracks key service performance indicators for a Market including Customer Service Level, Inventory Loss Minimization, Days Inventory on Hand (DIOH), Customer Order Fill Rates, and more

Requirements

• 5 years of purchasing work experience required; proven experience of influencing people/management
• Extensive food service knowledge and supply chain experience
• Proficient with various Desktop software (e.g., Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint)
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally and draw linkages to business
• High attention to detail, strong customer orientation, and fact-based decision making

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, or supply chain management, or equivalent food service industry work experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Food service purchasing and management experience
• Possess a high degree of diplomacy, tact, tenacity, and persistence to deal effectively with other stakeholders
• Proficiency in data analysis & visualization tools (i.e., Excel, Sigma, Tableau, PowerBI, etc.)

Benefits

Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance.

Pay

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law. The expected base rate for this role is between $81,000 - $115,000.

Schedule

This role will be onsite 5 days a week (Monday - Friday) and will work out of Everett, WA or Fife, WA.