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United States

United States

• Manage vendor relationships for >$50M product lines to ensure goals are met, to include: quality, cost, delivery timelines, and vendor performance and building internal company relationships.
• Vendor negotiations for products and costs; manage contracts and buy quantities for purchases.
• Review pricing and schedule logistics for shipments, both domestic and international.
• Create and maintain weekly reporting to review category performance.
• Manage product registrations and compliance for pet food and seed products.

Richmond, Virginia

• Manage onboarding of several new private label product lines with international vendors. Build and maintain reporting for analysis of product lines.
• Develop private label product line with international vendors, to include best cost comparison, product specification review, label creation, international trade and compliance review, competitive market assessment.
• Project manage other private label product lines.
• Presentations to executive team of data analytics findings and profitability of product lines.

Toano, Virginia

• Manage vendor relationship and internal company relationships to ensure goals of the category are met, to include: quality, cost, delivery timelines, and vendor performance.
• Lead company meetings to ensure updates are communicated to appropriate groups, projects are moving forward, and any road-blocks are escalated to appropriate decision makers.
• Manage tracking tools for onboarding new vendors and items.
• Create reporting to track and manage cost-out scenarios and goals to meet best profit margin potential.
• Creatively and continuously finding opportunities to reduce cost, while still maintaining great quality.

Toano, Virginia

• Support Product Category & Global Sourcing Managers with creation, maintenance and ongoing development of products, including operational support to meet strategic sales, margin dollar, inventory, availability.
• Communicate with vendors to monitor inbound purchase orders, capacity, and pricing
• Partner with Supply Chain, Finance, Store Operations, Compliance, Quality and other internal departments, as needed, to execute the business plan for categories
• Support other Category Managers/Assistants in building tools to help manage categories and create training documents for the team to maintain tools, to include a vendor dashboard, vendor scorecards, weekly sales.
• Manage product and vendor certifications and renewals

Toano, Virginia

• Analyze data and review sales forecasts to project and place purchase orders for inventory to support the supply chain and to include promotional strategy for >$150M category
• Collaborate with several teams to ensure we make good business decisions
• Plan production priorities and schedule finished goods for production line
• Maintain ongoing purchase orders, partnering with vendors to support supply chain for assigned categories
• Support other inventory analysts, when needed, to include developing useful tools for the team

Toano, Virginia

• Create and monitor sales forecasts to project and place purchase orders for inventory to support the supply chain for >$150M category
• Plan production priorities and schedule finished goods for production
• Build spreadsheets in Excel and use SAP and other reporting tools to analyze data to make decisions.

Toano, Virginia

• Plan outbound shipments for delivery to store locations to fill sales and stock needs
• Create daily truck schedule for outbound deliveries to support the supply chain
• Analyze and review stock requests and replenishment points for stores
• Support stores as their main contact regarding product ETAs, shipments, and general questions
• Create training documents to assist store managers with using SAP
• Train new hires, as well as support for team

Providence Forge, Virginia

• Analyze and compile data from McLeod database to create valuable Excel reports for effective decision making; also following up with recommendations from acquired results
• Train terminal managers on new software, in completing and prioritizing tasks, while paying attention to detail and working in a fast paced environment; helping them to be more efficient
• Research, recommend, and implement new software upgrades and additional modules when purchased; also, train managers and drivers

Providence Forge, Virginia

• Coordinate with customers and drivers to ensure timely deliveries
• Track, plan, and communicate, in the most cost effective manner: tank cleaning scheduling/location, equipment services/ locations, required equipment inspections, and make decisions on any break down issues
• Ensure all terminal managers are completing tasks required of them, as well as helping with any difficult questions and/or problems throughout the day
• Schedule routine inspections on equipment

Providence Forge, Virginia

• Manage and allocate tasks to individuals, to include tasks associated with accounts receivables, accounts payables, payroll, and balancing general ledger
• Create monthly reports for internal use and accountability, as well as required customer reports according to deadlines
• Balance accounts, ensure data accuracy, complete quarterly government tax filings, and develop/ensure SOPs have been followed