Morrisons Job – Supply Chain Specialist

Job Description:

We’re recruiting for a Supply Chain Specialist – Produce to join our agile Supply Chain team. The Supply Chain Specialist is responsible for leading projects to deliver against a large strategic change programme. At any time, this may include multiple in-flight projects or complex initiatives; which can span multiple subject areas and involve large cross-functional project teams.

Job Responsibilities:

• Actively managing supplier base and negotiating with suppliers on service performance
• Develop strong collaborative relationships with the full Business Team who work on the category to agree the optimum levels of products to meet customer demand
• Analysing and understanding complex data and present recommendations in a clear and concise way to different stakeholders
• Actively drive actions that will reduce forecasting variability for their categories, owning the sales alignment for categories
• Reviewing promotional performance and stock targets on a weekly basis and agree actions with trading to limit impact to inventory levels or wastage at store
• Working with suppliers and provide accurate information to plan stock levels effectively to maximise sales
• Leading the category availability of product flow measures within the business team
• Giving suppliers accurate information to plan stock levels effectively to maximise sales
• Working with business teams on strategic improvements for their categories such as: case size optimising, lead time optimisation, waste improvement, end to end productivity, lowest cost to serve, exception management
• Reporting accurately on KPI performance and communicate supply chain category performance out to the wider business in a clear, concise way to drive decision making and action
• Improving availability all the way through the end to end supply chain from supplier to shelf edge (group)
• Identifying opportunities for improvement across, stock, availability and waste

Job Requirements:

• Experience of data management, management forecasting and interpreting trends
• Understanding of project methodology
• Advanced level knowledge of Excel with excellent stakeholder management ability
• Previous experience of working with colleagues from all levels of the business.
• Proven delivery of projects to a schedule
• Understanding of Supply Chain principles (Stock, availability, Waste & Markdown, Seasonality and promotional impacts)
• Understanding of supply chain end to end solutions

Job Details:

Company: Morrisons

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Leeds, England, UK

Application Deadline: N/A

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