Food Service Supply Chain Analyst

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