Replenishment Lead (Lenexa, KS) Onsite

About the role

The role sits in the Replenishment Buying organization and is stationed at the Market level. It involves 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 collaborates with the VP Sales and VP Operations to ensure immediate needs for a product are met.

Responsibilities

• Daily replenishment duties and KPI monitoring: Work with Area Buyers and Replenishment Assistants to ensure key Replenishment functions are being fulfilled.
• Maintain quality levels of inbound products and address any product concerns or returns from customers due to quality issues.
• Manage and execute the removal of slow, dead, excess, and obsolete inventory under the direction of Category Management.
• Support the Credit Debit Memo Request process, handle drop ship billings, and track key service performance indicators for a Market including Customer Service Level, Inventory Loss Minimization, Days Inventory on Hand (DIOH), Customer Order Fill Rates, Excess and Obsolete Inventory Reserve (shared), Managed Cases/Freight Income, Inbound Cases/Pallet, Slow and Dead Inventory (Shared), Special Order Response Time, and movement to Direct Market staff coordination.
• Drive process consistency and build strong relationships with cross-functional partners overseeing the market, working directly with the VP Sales and VP Operations to ensure the market delivers on customer commitments.
• Coordinate with Area Buyers and cross-functional personnel, participating in regular market status calls to identify and remedy service issues, spoilage risks, etc.
• Support the Area buying team with routine buying support tasks, reporting reviews of certain reports, and raising issues to buyers/leadership as necessary.
• Manage logistics and costing tasks such as accepting PO blueprints, managing monthly freight rates, checking Arrowstream non-compliant orders, and investigating/resolving costing issues.
• Provide buying coverage as needed and cover for temporarily unavailable buyer bandwidth.
• Lead and continuously improve the Replenishment Assistant team, sharing challenges, operational learnings, and opportunities with the Area Replenishment staff to improve standard processes.
• Ensure clear communication channels between Replenishment Assistants and Area Buyers, and build a strong culture of customer service orientation, collaboration, performance, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Coach the team and provide regular 1x1 feedback based on cross-functional inputs and individual performance.

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.
• A high degree of diplomacy, tact, tenacity, and persistence to deal effectively with other stakeholders.
• 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.).

Qualifications

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

Skills

• Subject matter expertise on supply chain systems, replenishment policies and procedures.
• Leadership and team management skills.
• Interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Data analysis and visualization skills.

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. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.

Pay

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law (for example: state or local minimum wage thresholds). The expected base rate for this role is between $60,000 - $100,000.

Schedule

This role is onsite 5 days a week (Monday - Friday) at the US Foods Lenexa, KS location.