Sr. Manager, Insight and Analytics Replenishment

US Foods Inc. - Rosemont, Chicago Metro

• Establish in-depth subject matter expertise regarding process and procedures on Replenishment opportunities and work flow as it relates to purchasing, inventory, demand planning, forecasting, and warehouse capacity analysis.
• Drive improvement and performance through analytical methods, tactical reporting, and process improvement initiatives. Provide innovative and impactful insights and recommendations to stakeholders and upper management.
• Standardize analytics processes, metrics and insight delivery within Replenishment wherever and whenever possible, Examples include: inventory benchmarking, reporting, & trending, inventory rebalancing analytics, fill rate analytics and reporting, comprehensive scorecards and performance tracking, analytics regarding purchasing seasonality, repeated fluctuations in supply/demand, product sourcing, and/or product shelf-life.
• Lead the process to develop and refine methodology for core analyses and test designs to continuously improve analytic practices across Replenishment and Supply Chain.
• Owns relationship with all Replenishment business partners to evolve business strategies that optimize Replenishment objectives such as inventory on hand and on order, days inventory on hand, excess & obsolete inventory, forecast accuracy, fill rate, and net freight income.  This includes the development and presentation of actionable customer and product insights.
• Collaborate with peer Managers and Senior Insights and Analytics Leaders, such as the Data Science Director, Decision Science Director, and Business Analytics Director to: identify improvements in analytics, reporting, software requirements, data improvements; and implement and track satisfaction with changes and improvements.
• Lead collaboration and understanding of business problem with senior business partners
• Manage Replenishment analytics team to identify and prioritize custom, special analytic projects - as well as routine reports/analysis, across client groups, serving as implementation leader in the areas of scoping, resourcing, project management, requirements gathering, methodology, metrics/formula standardization/derivation, and IT collaboration.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing across client groups and lead the training process of business team in understanding and adoption of new advanced analytics, software applications, and business intelligence tools.

• Serve as a strategic business partner with Replenishment team to maximize the effectiveness of their key objectives and strategies with detailed analysis and lead development of performance reporting for purchasing, inventory, demand planning and cost reduction initiatives.
• Serve as primary business consultant with IT for the Replenishment organization in the development of BI, querying and data visualization.

• Provide thought leadership in areas of tools and reports development
• Lead integration of analytics, tools, processes and delivery channels to create a seamless experience for end users
• Lead development of tools and reports for end users, including developing requirements, reviewing user stories, evaluating IT development progress, managing UAT and training end users
• Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) of applicable tools, databases and systems within Replenishment

• Support deployment and value realization strategy (e.g., communication, training, org structure) for Analytics programs
• Identify strategic and thoughtful coordination and execution of all aspects of the role
• Ensure flawless deployment through management of business partners, IT, consultants and end users 

 

 

***EOE Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Protected Veteran/Disability Status***

 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, Mathematics or related quantitative field required
• MBA or advanced degree preferred

• 8 years demonstrated successful experience in business analytics, replenishment, inventory management, supply chain, and/or other similar related functions
• 5 years demonstrated successful experience in analytical roles
• 5 years demonstrated successful experience in food distribution, retail, CPG or related industries
• 2 years managing direct and/or indirect reports preferred

• Business Strategy and Analytics
• Exceptional business acumen
• Excellent data analysis skills
• Ability to think logically and analytically
• Able to take complex, ambiguous problems, break them down into smaller parts, and problem solve to come up with a whole, integrated and strategic solution
• Able to solve complex business problems related to product sourcing, category management and promotions including the development of measurements and analysis to support decision-making
• Self-direction and Team Work
• High degree of motivation
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Ability to build consensus and lead work streams
• Highly organized with the ability to multitask and prioritize workloads
• Strong influence and persuasion skills
• Communication
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly
• Ability to influence change within complex organizations
• Ability to relate to others
• Ability to understand and translate custom and statistical analytics for business users
• Proficiency in the following required:
• MS Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Deep understanding of supply chain planning systems such as JDA, Manugistics, SAP-APO, or Logility
• Proficiency in the following is preferred:
• Tableau or similar data visualization tools
• Snowflake or similar cloud based data warehouse
• Proficiency in the following is a plus:
• Six Sigma or other Process Improvement Methodology
• SQL
• SAS

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Posted: 30+ days ago

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