Associate Director (Inventory Management)

Job Description

1) Set up a new Replenishment / Inventory Management central team from scratch to manage Grocery replenishment for Upstream (Supplier to DC) and Downstream (DC to store). This includes managing the planners for all Grocery categories to establish the right parameters for a new replenishment system to automatically replenish to DCs and Stores. Target outcomes would be to expand the coverage of auto-replenishment from planogram SKUs to all replenishable SKUs, improve availability, reduce stockholding days.

2) Implement a new replenishment system to replace current. This system needs to automate forecasting, replenishment and order management for Grocery across all formats.

3) Collaborate with Products to implement Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment with our major suppliers. This will be critical to improving OTIF to our stores and customers.

4) Influence the stores to adopt auto-replenishment, thereby reducing the manpower in stores for ordering and shelf replenishment (by reducing Stockholding days)

Job Requirements

1) Over 10 years of replenishment / inventory management experience in a major Omni-channel grocery retailer with auto-replenishment

2) Experience in implementing and optimizing an inventory management system like Blue Yonder (former JDA) or RELEX or equivalent

3) Experience in establishing processes and policies to drive towards auto-replenishment and continuous improvement in availability, OTIF and stockholding days

4) Ability to influence stakeholders (including Buyers, Stores and Suppliers) to adopt auto-replenishment system and improve KPIs like Availability, Stockholding Days and OTIF

1) Team management experience for at least 20 team members (preferably)

2) E2E Supply Chain experience in logistics / import (preferably)