Supervisor Procurement - Remote

About the role

The Procurement team is a key contributor to UNFI and is responsible for strategic planning, purchasing, and management of over $2B in inventory. The procurement teams work hand in hand to support our customers and suppliers' needs, while achieving the goal of providing high service levels, and working towards creating new innovative solutions to drive UNFI's growth. Partnering with our suppliers and customers, we strive to make them stronger, our supply chain better, and our food solutions more inspired.

Job Responsibilities

• Oversees daily activities of the team by monitoring service levels and helps execute against department goals
• Accountable for inbound flow of product and inventory level management to maintain targeted outbound service levels impacting organizational profitability and customer success across assigned DCs
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders, including Procurement leadership, Operations, Sales, and Merchandising, to drive results and address escalations with customers through research, analytics, and solutions
• Applies critical thinking and business acumen to identify and solve escalations
• Maintains close partnership with operations team at distribution centers to ensure prioritized inbound flow of product and maximize productivity
• Safeguards the effective performance of the assigned Procurement functions
• Addresses and reviews service level reporting to provide guidance, coaching, suggestions, etc.
• Responsible for generating fill rate, inventory, and spoilage projections for assigned DCs and executing to targets
• Ensures all Procurement processes are followed, errors or discrepancies are promptly reviewed and resolved
• Supports, implements, and trains the team on business strategic initiatives, including standard operating procedures
• Maintains effective communication and coordination with company personnel, direct reports, and management
• Participates in personnel decision-making, including hiring, onboarding, training, and performance management
• Develops associate career path and continuous training and education, coaching, and mentoring
• Provides leadership through effective goal setting, delegation, and communication
• Ensures personnel are complying with department policies and procedures
• Promotes opportunities with a sense of urgency
• Develops, streamlines, and implements processes and procedures to meet evolving business needs in collaboration with all cross-functional business stakeholders
• Provides subject matter expertise in department and enterprise-wide projects to meet strategic initiatives
• Accounts for established department metrics for assigned region or group (fill rate, days on hand, spoilage, etc.)
• Manages performance of direct reports and drives accountability at all levels within the department
• Ensures operations meet or exceed Company metrics
• Provides leadership to direct reports while focusing on process improvements and creating a high-performance supervisory team
• Develops, leads, and coaches the assigned procurement team
• Serves as an example, establishing expectations for success with suppliers, customers, operations teams, and other stakeholders, leading to the achievement of key deliverables in the assigned area
• Develops data-driven plans to effectively achieve department goals, increase fill rate, decrease days on hand inventory, and decrease procurement shrinkage
• Provides insight and guidance on reporting needs, dashboarding, and KPIs to drive and measure success
• Establishes buyer inventory dollar and turn goals and monitors results, taking corrective action as required
• Participates in developing and managing Division P&L by conducting analysis and providing relevant procurement data
• Maintains department’s results compared to projections, identifies solutions, and recommends corrective actions
• Executes against reports such as the daily lost sales reports and open purchase order reports, and compiles information to share with the buyers, operations, and vendors as necessary

Job Requirements

• Education/ Certifications: Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred or equivalent experience
• Experience: 4+ years of relevant experience
• Knowledge/Skills/ Abilities: Strong knowledge of procurement and logistics processes; Knowledge of large-scale distribution networks; Deep understanding of grocery categories; Strong analytical and math skillset; Proficient in Microsoft Excel; Capable of learning and utilizing multiple disparate systems; Ability to investigate and analyze information and to draw conclusions; Excellent problem-solving capabilities; Mindset of continuous improvement; Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community; Ability to use own judgement to make decisions and drive results; Can work independently as well as with a larger group; Preferred: SQL, Python, Alteryx, etc.