Inventory Manager, Fresh Foods

Job Summary

As a Fresh Item Inventory Manager, you will serve as the organizational lead and owner of FRP, a Fresh Item Management tool, across all retail locations in key fresh departments. You will be responsible for transforming store-level fresh inventory management practices and significantly improving freshness and product availability. You will work closely with the Operations and Merchandising teams to ensure sustainability in order to improve overall profitability — with a focus on inventory management and shrink reduction.

Job Description

• Experience Required: 3 to 5 years inventory management

• Experience Desired: Experience in Retail Operations;

• Experience Required: project management skills

  Excellent communication skills, (written and oral)

  Education Required: Bachelors Degree in Inventory Management or related field

  Experience Required: Advanced MS Excel skills (VLookUp, Pivot tables a must). This position will be responsible for managing large volumes of data and synthesizing that information, creating reports and dashboards)

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and build cross-functional teams to implement and sustain store practices using the FRP tool for daily production planning and other key inventory management processes.
• Serve as the organizational expert for FRP. Lead, build and maintain the multi-year strategy and vision for fresh item management in the Supermarket and Market District banners.
• Design and manage measurements and reporting around FRP. Identify trends in sales, inventory, margin and shrink data and build performance scorecards and analytics using data and other internal sources.
• Build relationships and maintain connections with merchandising, operations and IT to ensure FRP sustainability and accuracy.
• Develop and implement FRP training strategy. Build a cross-functional team to develop a training program that will enable stores to use FRP in daily production planning.
• Identify other operational and merchandising opportunities in fresh departments in order to grow sales, reduce out of stocks and reduce waste.