Job Description
Responsibility:
1. Identify and pursue process improvement opportunities, with a special focus on supply planning processes, working with vendors, vendor operations, and inventory management by reducing costs, defects, and lead times, while increasing innovation, automation, and economies of scale;
2. Be a leader beyond categories management by scaling best practices introduced at the highest possible level, ideally world-wide, and by supporting new tools/processes deployment;
3. Collaborate with Category Managers with measurement of ranging and space performance (quarterly) through creation of standardized tools. Make recommendations on sales optimization ;
4. Provide standardized weekly summary of key performance indicators relating to fulfilment rates, availability, stockholding and quality of Inventory;
5. In partnership with Category Leaders create category stock budgets for all products, monitor stock vs budget and flag issues/opportunities, identify and deliver supply chain cost savings;
6. Creation and maintenance of SKU level forecasting tools to support Category Managers to ensure optimized supplier stocks availability.
Qualifications
1. 8+ years of professional experience in relevant fields, such as retail, e-commerce, supply chain, and/or program or project management;
2. Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science;
3. Proven ability to manage large and complicated projects with experience leading cross-functional teams;
4. Experience working with complex data sets and advanced analytical techniques and tools such as SQL;
5. Demonstrated success in leading process improvements, systems development, and change initiatives;
6. Experience delivering results by partnering with and influencing internal and external stakeholders;
7. Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast paced environment.