Reorder Buyer Team Lead

Area of Responsibility: Effective stock management of product range in line with Supply Chain departmental KPIs.

Key Activities:

• Work collaboratively with Trading and Logistics colleagues as well as suppliers to ensure departmental KPIs are achieved using appropriate experience and systems.
• Manage Inbound & Outbound service levels to meet the demands of our customer.
• Maintain product and supplier information.
• Placing orders and maintaining strong working relationships with suppliers to ensure stock levels are sufficient to meet promotional and core demand.
• Liaise with Goods In and warehouse operations as required to ensure stock isreceived on specific dates required.
• Analysing system generated reports to ensure stock levels and service level performance are on track with escalation of any non-conformances accordingly.
• Use of MDS and Power BI data system to accurately forecast stock requirements for promotions and seasonal periods.
• Ensure that Intercompany and Bulk orders are placed and scheduled for delivery to customers.
• Managing inbound volumes to ensure workload is balanced across the week and that the warehouse capacity is not breached.
• Manage stock in line with KPI targets ensuring overstocks are actioned and stock is replenished as required
• Authorise stock for bulk customer orders while ensuring availability for other customers.
• Performance reporting on a daily and weekly basis to indicate individual and departmental performance against targets.
• Support to the rest of the Supply Chain Re-Order team as required during busy periods / holidays / absence / stocktakes.
• Cover department during Reorder Managers absence.
• Leading out on key projects and working on continuous improvement initiatives.

Area of Responsibility: Managing Suppliers

• Monitoring supplier service levels on a daily/weekly basis.
• Establish good working relationships with key personnel from each supplier.
• Collaborative working with suppliers to ensure that inbound service level performance is maintained.
• Use of escalation process (both internal and external) to deal with poor performance and ensure corrective action is agreed and implemented.

Area of Responsibility: Interfacing with other Departments & Customers

• Develop robust working relationships cross functionally e.g. Logistics, Trading, Sales, Operations etc.
• Keeping other Departments and Customers up to date with any current or potential interruptions to supply.
• Respond to customer queries via Remedy system within agreed deadlines with sufficient information to satisfy the customers query.
• Occasionally supporting the Drinks Inc Reorder team.

What were looking for:

Experience, Skills and Education