What are the responsibilities and job description for the Food Service Supply Chain Analyst position at Firebirds Wood Fired Grill Brand?
What You’ll Do:
- Communicate with distributors, ensuring the proper inventory levels of system items and ingredients for regular usage, LTO’s, and catering.
- Manage all events, including project timelines, test or go-live dates, completing event forms, milestone dates, product setup, product arrival at warehouses, and auto-shipping to restaurants
- Manage master contract list, renewals, notifying buyers/vendors of upcoming expiration dates, notifying distributors of changes in contracts
- Acts as a key Liaison between Restaurants and Distributor
- Ensures our restaurants are continuously supplied with Firebirds’ approved products
- Initiates distributors ordering of specific feature related items
- Manage and Communicate Support tickets
- Follows up with credits and outages ensuring the restaurants are adequately supported
- Work with procurement team to establish necessary inventory levels and identify potential substitutions.
- Collaborate with procurement / distributors to optimize freight for efficient and cost-effective procurement operations.
- Responsible for order guide accuracy, and communication of new or removed menu items. Supporting new restaurant setup of accounts, credentials, and order set up
- Escalate restaurant credit recovery when necessary.
- Support NRO- New Restaurant Openings
- Ensures all required materials or products are ordered—including Home Depot, Amazon, etc.
- Set up new account for each new location —Distribution, Produce, REQ, Etc.
- Coordinates PODS for transportation of NRO material
- Attend New Restaurant Opening (NRO) meetings and communicating updates and changes to the external vendors/suppliers
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, restaurant, project management, Supply Chain
and/or inventory control experience may be considered in lieu of formal education
- Strong, effective communication skills— ability to interact with all levels of operation
- Understanding of purchasing and supply chain procedures
- Manage multiple projects on various levels with different and converging timelines
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills and ability to self-prioritize
Must be adaptable to change and thrive in a dynamic and growth environment
