Director, Area Replenishment

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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.

The Director, Area Replenishment position is 100% onsite at our Ogden, UT location.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Performance Management Responsibilities

• As an Area Director, Replenishment, you will 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 the key metrics and provide timely updates to the Area staff on these efforts:
• Target Service Levels: Track and monitor customer service levels for your Area across all categories. Serve as the single point of contact for service requests.
• Optimal Days Inventory on Hand (DIOH): Monitor inventory trends in your Area and work with Buyer team to determine corrective actions for over/ under positions.
• Spoilage & Inventory Adjustment: Track and monitor spoilage, F2F, Inventory cost change (ICC), etc. across all categories.
• Freight Optimization: Manage optimal order patterns and volume to maximize freight savings, while meeting inventory goals

Operations and Execution Responsibilities

• Replenishment Execution: As an Area Director, Replenishment, you will oversee all replenishment and inventory management activities in your Area.
• Inventory Management: 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)
• Purchase Order (PO) Management: Oversee Area Buyers to ensure POs are issued timely to our vendors with high reliance on Suggested Order Quantities (SOQ) and optimal parameters.
• Root Causing Stock Outs: Actively work with buyer team to root cause and address major stock outs & anticipated shorts; finalize recovery actions for long term outages.
• Replenishment Operations: 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.
• Billing and Costing: Work with Buyer team to resolve discrepancies through CASIS.
• Area Operations: Provide local ownership & accountability for overall service performance and special events.
• Service Requests:  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.
• Supporting Area Sales: 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.
• Customer & Items Transitions:  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.
• Area Specific Service Issues: Triaging & resolving acute/ seasonal challenges, e.g., hurricanes, fire business, education ramp-up, etc.

Team Leadership Responsibilities

You will have the opportunity to manage a large team of Replenishment Leads, Buyers, and Operations Support Specialists for your Area. Specifically, you will:

• 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