Morrisons Jobs – Supply Chain Specialist

Job Description:

We’re looking for a Supply Chain Specialist to join our Wholesale team managing the supply into our Market Kitchen operations. In this role, you’ll take ownership for outstanding availability to our Market Kitchens whilst delivering against stock and waste targets, to minimise cash impacts to the business. The successful candidate will actively participate in running and improving the business team.

Job Responsibilities:

• 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
• Influencing and working with the commercial teams to make decisions that improve availability and reduce waste
• Working with suppliers and provide accurate information to plan stock levels effectively to maximise sales
• 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
• 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
• Actively drive actions that will reduce forecasting variability for their categories , owning the sales alignment for categories
• Actively managing supplier base and negotiating with suppliers on service performance
• Owning the escalations at the right time where opportunities/risks arise in regards to product flow
• Owning end to end availability performance for the Market Kitchen operations
• Identifying opportunities for improvement across, stock, availability and waste
• Working with the business team to ensure systems data is input in a timely manner to ensure no impact to availability at a Group level
• Analysing and understanding complex data and present recommendations in a clear and concise way to different stakeholders
• Leading the category availability of product flow measures within the business team

Job Requirements:

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

Job Details:

Company: Morrisons

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Leeds, England, UK

Application Deadline: N/A

Apply Here

yours-vacancy.net