Overview

Good people, working with good people, for our common good.

Sound good?

KeHE-a natural, organic, specialty and fresh food distributor – is all about being “Crazy Good” and is growing, there has never been a more exciting time to join our team.  If you’re enthusiastic about working in an environment with a people-first culture and an organization committed to good living, good food and good service, we’d love to talk to you!

Primary Responsibilities

The Senior Manager of Supply Chain leads a team of Demand Replenishment Planners and oversees an enterprise-wide supply chain operation with responsibilities over purchasing, demand planning and inventory management.  Additional responsibilities include strategic planning, ad hoc problem solving and managing relationships with a diverse vendor community, a growing customer base, and all relevant internal departments.  As with all positions at KeHE, we expect that all actions will be consistent with KeHE’s Mission, Vision and Values.

Essential Functions

• Leads a team of Demand Replenishment Planners and Transportation Analysts
• Collaborates with Director team to influence department strategy and create yearly targets (SMART goals). 
• Ability to translate strategic goals into specific actions and team objectives.
• Works to maximize KPIs: outbound fill rate, inventory turns, days on hand, spoilage, and forecast accuracy.
• Partners with vendor community and KeHE (Transportation/Ops/AM) teams to problem solve, streamline processes and to maximize customer satisfaction.
• Proactively monitors the business and works to mitigate risks caused by critical demand and supply changes.
• Creates and fosters an environment of trust, teamwork, continuous improvement, accountability, and innovation.
• Drives strategic meetings, projects, and improvements with key vendors.
• Provide data driven insight and actionable feedback to key account teams.
• Serves as backup to the Director Supply Chain in his/her absence.

Minimum Requirements, Qualifications, Additional Skills, Aptitude

• Outstanding analytic skills with demonstrated success organizing, analyzing, and accurately interpreting large amounts of data.
• Capable of influencing & educating organization on supply chain and forecasting success factors.
• High comfort level negotiating with vendors and key business partners.
• Skilled presenter to senior management and executive level.
• Outstanding communication (both verbal and written) and relationship management skills.
• Ability to prioritize workload to have the most significant impact on customer satisfaction and performance to KPI’s.
• Prior experience in food and/or code sensitive product environment preferred.
• Experience with business intelligence tools like Power BI and Tableau highly desired.

Minimum Requirements, Qualifications, Additional Skills, Aptitude

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of related supply chain experience desired.
• Minimum 3 years of experience directly managing people, including hiring, developing, motivating, directing work and setting priorities.
• Forecasting/planning experience in a high SKU, slow movement environment utilizing advanced planning systems such as Manhattan, JDA Demand/Fulfillment, SAP/APO, Logility, Oracle Demantra, etc.