Senior Lead, Supply Chain Solutions
Company
KeHE Distributors
Location
Naperville, IL
Other
Supply Chain/Logistics
Why Work for KeHE?
- Full-time
- Pay Range: $77,388.00/Yr. - $113,427.00/Yr.
- Shift Days: , Shift Time:
- Benefits on Day 1
- Health/Rx
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA)
- Supplemental life insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Paid sick time
- Short term & long term disability coverage (STD/LTD)
- Employee stock ownership (ESOP)
- Holiday pay for company designated holidays
Overview
Good people, working with good people, for our common good.
Sound good?
KeHE-a natural, organic, specialty and fresh food distributor-is all about "good" and is growing, so there's never been a more exciting time to join our team. If you're enthusiastic about working in an environment with a people-first culture and an organization committed to good living, good food and good service, we'd love to talk to you!
Primary Responsibilities
The Senior Supply Chain Solutions Lead is the primary liaison between key account teams and supply chain for all activities involving supply chain integration as well SME support to other Supply Chain Solutions Leads and project management. This role involves developing insights related to forecasts and processes to support event-based movement related to promotional activity, new product placement, seasonality, and increased points of distribution. Additionally, this role will represent the KeHE supply chain organization to the account team and facilitate seamless integration between the customer and KeHE's order management processes and systems. As with all positions at KeHE Distributors we expect that all actions will be consistent with KeHE's Mission, Vision and Values.
Essential Functions
DUTIES, TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Facilitates and develops solutions that integrate the assigned customer's and KeHE supply chain processes.
- Focuses on understanding the customer's internal system and processes to provide insights on how we can improve our performance, based on the tools available.
- Supports key account team in non-selling activities such as root cause and recovery on performance issues.
- Leads regularly scheduled meetings with the assigned key account teams or customers to review performance of KPI's, procurement challenged inventory, and plans for at-risk inventory.
- Produces a weekly metrics scorecard and provides results.
- Provides insights into performance drivers and future outlook.
- Partners with the demand planner to integrate account demand into the overall DC and item forecast needs.
- Supports promotional forecasting analysis.
- Monitors and manages promotional demand readiness and account execution.
- Utilizes internal and external data to identify changes in sales trends to drive a proactive response across the supply chain.
- Presents quarterly business reviews to internal teams on performance results and 90-day strategy.
- Leads as an SME and mentor to supply chain support functions such as systems, analytics, processes, or customer channels.
- Assists other solutions leads in understanding and establishing best practices.
- Other duties and projects as assigned.
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrated success organizing, analyzing, and accurately interpreting large data sets.
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
- Strong relationship management skills and presentation skills.
- Ability to influence and educate teams in topics such as supply chain and forecasting success factors.
- Ability to prioritize workload and simultaneously work on multiple tasks.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) and COGNOS, Power BI, and other similar tools.
Minimum Requirements, Qualifications, Additional Skills, Aptitude
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Engineering, or related field is required.
- 5+ years of experience in Supply Chain, preferably supply or demand planning or Supply Chain solutions is required.
- Prior experience in customer service and/or sales support role preferred.
- Prior experience in the food industry and/or code sensitive product environment preferred.
- Prior experience using ERP systems such as JDA Demand, SAP/APO, Manhattan, etc. is strongly preferred.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
Requisition ID
2025-26283
Equal Employer Opportunity Statement
KeHE Distributors provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits all forms of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or faith, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training as well as the administration of all Human Resources and Talent Acquisition processes.