In Stock Analyst II

Delhaize America - Scarborough, ME

Full-time - Entry Level

Hybrid - Scarborough, ME

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

ADUSA Procurement is a partner company to Ahold Delhaize USA, providing supply chain services that support the delivery of products from a supplier to the warehouse. ADUSA Procurement is part of the Ahold Delhaize USA family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. The primary responsibilities are to ensure appropriate operational service levels at retail. This includes working with vendors on product flow to achieve vendor to warehouse fill rate goals (VFR). This role also has direct responsibility of managing inventory days of supply objectives (DOS) and on shelf availability (OSA) targets, for their assigned vendors. This position will understand the future variability that impacts product movement - from increasing efficiencies, impacting the greater network, troubleshooting root causes, and supporting procurement streams (diverting, forward buy, efficiency programs). This role is the primary interface to vendor Supply Chain partners, representing ADUSA Supply Chain and communication of product availability issues to brand teams. Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days.

Responsibilities

• Manage all Relex daily, weekly, monthly workflows resulting in achieving operational service level targets.
• Monitor and ensure timely execution of all planned product allocations as needed.
• Analyze system exceptions for root cause.
• Manage inventory to achieve DOS, obsolete, and product freshness target.
• Execute and monitor purchase orders-including on time and in full metrics.
• Consult with Advantage team and Demand Systems Specialists on vendor efficiency programs.
• Develop a plan to address overstocks and left-over sale excess inventory in collaboration with the Merchandising group.
• Work with suppliers, Quality Control, Supply Chain operations, store divisional operations, and Risk Management to address product availability, freshness, and product transition issues.
• Stay informed on commodity or other supplier issues that impact category sales.
• Provide timely communication to supervisors related to inventory transactions, resolving issues, short-term out of stocks.
• Collaborate with Forecast Analysts to explain and identify forecast variance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics or related business field or equivalent relevant experience.
• 0-3 Years of experience.
• Knowledge of demand management practices.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Working knowledge of Supply Chain processes.
• Relex knowledge preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Oral and written communication skills.
• Basic to intermediate Excel skills.
• Presentation skills.
• Inventory management best practices.
• Attention to detail.
• Store Operations preferred.
• Team player and collaborator.