Strategic Supply Chain Planner: Demand, Inventory & Growth

Wakefern Food Corp.; Elizabeth (NJ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental leave

Wellness programs

Educational opportunities

Job summary

Wakefern Food Corp. in Elizabeth, NJ is seeking a Supply Chain Planner to own demand planning and fulfillment for assigned categories, focusing on customer centricity, right quantity, and freshness while maintaining cost-to-serve.

The role requires cross-functional partnership, analytical skills to optimize speed, frequency, and ROI, and the ability to translate forecasts into actionable plans with vendors and merchants.

Qualifications

• 4-year College degree in Business/Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field.
• Ability to forecast inventory levels to maximize financial goals and ROI.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and analysis skills are required.
• Knowledge of operations, computer systems, and applications.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, PowerPoint, Rapid
• Ability to prepare clear, concise documents for general and technical needs.
• Demonstrated skill in interviewing users and identifying their information needs.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Review and respond to exceptions from system recommended orders.
• Monitor purchase order life cycle, proactively resolving issues.
• Identify potential issues inside the lead-time window, develop proactive action plans to limit impact to customer.
• Analyze in-season and holiday flow to satisfy customer demand while delivering expected return on investment.
• Utilize system generated forecast to increase frequency and speed to market.
• Create, maintain, and negotiate supplier constraints.
• Track and report performance on established KPI’s such as service level, inventory turnover, sales, gross margin, etc.
• Oversee a group of VMI/co-manage suppliers.
• Develop demand plans at multiple levels of aggregation and time horizons by analyzing historical sales trends.
• Lead cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances, and refine forecast model for pre-season demand forecast.
• Identify demand-driving variables such as price, weather, promotional activity, and substitution affect to create in-season demand projections.
• Collaborate with merchants, marketing, and suppliers to ensure current and accurate information is used for demand forecast.
• Influence merchant contract negotiations by providing input to volume planning.
• Influence Category Manager Supplier selection.
• Leverage forecast data to improve speed to market and lead collaborative meetings with suppliers.
• Analyze transportation modes and recommend alternative methods to reduce cost to serve.
• Collaborate with operations, suppliers, and merchants to improve operational efficiencies.
• Lead supplier collaboration meetings to optimize end to end supply chain.
• Consolidate daily and weekly reporting for team and peers as assigned.
• Communicate with operations and members as needed.

Skills

Forecasting

Communication

Operations knowledge

Documentation

Interviewing users

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or Supply Chain

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Rapid

Job description

Wakefern Food Corp. in Elizabeth, NJ is seeking a Supply Chain Planner to own demand planning and fulfillment for assigned categories, focusing on customer centricity, right quantity, and freshness while maintaining cost-to-serve.

The role requires cross-functional partnership, analytical skills to optimize speed, frequency, and ROI, and the ability to translate forecasts into actionable plans with vendors and merchants.