Job description
Company Description: Instinct® is a rapidly growing, family owned marketer and manufacturer of natural pet foods for dogs and cats. Instinct® is the Raw Brand, with a mission to get more raw nutrition into every bowl of dogs and cats, for proven healthier and happier long life. Our company mission is to
Empower people to transform the lives of pets
. We are committed to hiring and developing a team of passionate, performance-oriented professionals who love to win and make a positive difference.
Position Summary: This pet passionate and driven supply chain professional, will help drive Instinct® market share, revenue and contribution margin growth. This person has advanced analytics capabilities to provide actionable Supply Chain insights focused on efficiency and profitability. They will collaborate closely with the retail sales and marketing team to effectively plan demand events and work with our retail customers to deliver products on time, complete and within compliance.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Develop customer demand plans, based on forecasting models and insights to customer category trends and demand events
- Proactively identify risks and exceptions and outline recommended mitigation steps
- Partner with retail supply chain partners to help manage product availability, master data integrity and new product set up
- Participate in monthly Joint Business Planning Meetings with the Retail Commercial Team, reporting on supply chain performance KPIs, key issues and recommended course correction
- Monitor and optimize HERO SKUs inventory management in customer warehouses and regularly review weeks on hand to prevent out of stocks/over stocks
- Collaborate with Selling teams to optimize terms and cost of doing business to ensure mutual financial benefit to Instinct and our customers
- Develop and publish weekly demand-supply performance report, with focus on achievement of agreed KPIs and identification of issues and working with the team to effectively and timely resolution
- Work to mitigate Supply Chain related compliance charges (Transportation, Shipping Accuracy etc)
- Lead and support cross functional projects
- Ad Hoc analytics
Personal Attributes:
- Ability to effectively work cross-functionally with sales, marketing, order management, logistics and warehousing to ensure strong internal alignment and knowledge sharing
- Effective problem-solving skills, with an ability to anticipate risks and identify options to effectively mitigate
- Proactively seek to develop customer relationship, influence and negotiate optimized inventory management at warehouse level
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong project management skills, with high level of attention to detail and accuracy and excellence in execution
- Excellent numeric and analytical skills, with a strong ability to identify opportunities connecting all data points
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office
Preferred Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 5 + years supply chain customer product experience in CPG or with major retailers
- Experience in Advanced Analytics, Customer Product Planning, Forecasting, Logistics
- Strong track record with Consumer Product Goods industry
Travel Requirements:
- Periodic trips to visit Customer HQ/Operations and Instinct Operations/Warehousing
Compensation and Benefits
Competitive compensation package includes health and dental insurance, life and AD&D insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, short and long-term disability, paid time off, Purpose Days off for company partner volunteer opportunities, and 401k with company match
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