About the position

As an Area Director, Replenishment within US Foods, you will be pivotal to how we serve and delight our customers. This role sits in our Supply chain organization, within our Replenishment Team. You will be assigned to a specific Area, consisting of one to three markets, and will oversee a team of talented Replenishment Leads, Buyers, and Operations Support Specialists. Collectively, your team will drive all Replenishment buying and inventory management activities for the Area across all categories (grocery, fresh, produce). Additionally, you will represent the Replenishment function on the Area leadership staff, which includes local and national sales leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage all replenishment related performance metrics for your Area.
• Actively engage in Area-level staff meetings on replenishment performance and issue resolution.
• Represent replenishment at Area staff meetings & own all follow-ups.
• Drive improved performance on key metrics and provide timely updates to the Area staff on these efforts: Target Service Levels, Optimal Days Inventory on Hand (DIOH), Spoilage & Inventory Adjustment, Freight Optimization.
• Oversee all replenishment and inventory management activities in your Area.
• Oversee Area Buyers to manage inventory health i.e., gap to target DIOH levels; highlight issues with DIOH target to our Replenishment Center of Excellence (COE).
• Oversee Area Buyers to ensure POs are issued timely to our vendors with high reliance on Suggested Order Quantities (SOQ) and optimal parameters.
• Actively work with buyer team to root cause and address major stock outs & anticipated shorts; finalize recovery actions for long term outages.
• Oversee Operations Support Specialists to ensure timely updates / changes to the POs and arrival to the DCs; help escalate issues to transportation, DC operations and merchandising teams for significant supply delays; work with buyers to communicate major issues to Sales and Replenishment leadership.
• Work with Buyer team to resolve discrepancies through CASIS.
• Provide local ownership & accountability for overall service performance and special events.
• Ensure Replenishment related service requests are assigned timely to the correct Support Specialists and actioned within the response SLA; Work with Buyer team to determine allocation priorities for significantly constrained items.
• Work with your Buyers and Support Specialist team to ensure local sales events are well supported and orchestrated; Partner with Sales and Merchandising to manage demand forecast and ensure preparedness for key events.
• Oversee major customer transitions (start-up & ramp-down) and assortment transitions by providing Buyer team with the needed process expertise and facilitating cross-functional support.
• Triaging & resolving acute/ seasonal challenges, e.g., hurricanes, fire business, education ramp-up, etc.
• Oversee, manage, and monitor all Replenishment activities of your team.
• Ensure coordination and information flow between Buyers & Support Specialists.
• Build a strong culture of customer service, collaboration, performance, and continuous improvement within your team.
• Provide coaching and process guidance to your team; when needed, work closely with Center of Excellence (COE) teams to bring the required expertise.
• Represent your team on regular performance evaluations and help build a strong talent pipeline within the replenishment function.
• Provide regular 1x1 feedback to your team based on cross-functional inputs.
• Coach the Buyer team to drive high reliance and trust on systems (e.g., SCPO) for planning and buying activities.
• Capture team feedback and escalate to COE and systems team to fix parameters and/ or configuration.
• Identify required process, analytics, and system training needs within your team; work with Replenishment leadership and COE to co-develop those competencies and bring those trainings to your team.
• Assume subject matter expertise in certain process Areas by helping build process playbooks, driving process excellence and conducting trainings.
• Share your findings, operational learnings, and process improvement opportunities with your peer group and Replenishment Center of Excellence (COE).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, or related fields, or related experience and/or military experience
• 7 years of work experience managing operations and leading teams within core supply chain functions, specifically supply planning, inventory management, vendor management purchasing, or other food service/ distribution related functions such as merchandising, category management, and/or sales operations.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage & coach large team of supply chain talent.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and draw linkages with business impact.
• Familiarity with analytics and supply chain planning and buying systems.
• Ability to synthesize key information, present in both sales meetings and customer facing calls to influence key decisions.
• Proficient at Microsoft Office i.e., Excel, Word, etc.

Benefits

• health insurance
• pre-tax spending accounts
• retirement benefits
• paid time off
• short-term and long-term disability
• employee stock purchase plan
• life insurance
• annual incentive plan bonus
• long-term incentive program