Senior Buyer
Current- Accountable for inbound flow of product and inventory level management to maintain targeted outbound service levels impacting organizational profitability and customer success.
- End-to-end responsibility for Private Label items in assigned DCs while achieving department required metrics such as fill rate, days on hand, shrink, aged, etc.
- Responsible for root cause analysis of inconsistency in demand to understand drivers, determine needed actions, and implement those actions in coordination with Procurement partners to protect service and limit excess.
- Analyzes data from disparate sources and similar item profiles to determine starting forecasts for new item sets to minimize shrink and meet fill rate goals while driving speed to shelf.
- Responsible for generating best in class-based forecast accuracy through forecasting system management, institutional industry knowledge, trend analysis, historical review, and demand history management driving.
- Creates, reviews, and analyzes daily/weekly self-service reports to check service levels and inventory turns - and adjusts as needed.