Associate, Supply Assurance

Overview
Responsible for execution of supply strategies that assure supply and minimize obsolescence. Access data from a variety of IPC proprietary applications and provide comparative analysis, trend analysis, and other analytical measures on the data. Report analysis in daily meetings, concisely in charts, figures, and emails. Make recommendations to various stakeholders in the business. This role is responsible for executing the supply plan throughout the Supply Chain, monitoring supply levels, taking actions to minimize supply shortages, and limiting obsolete inventory for SUBWAY® restaurants.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
The essential duties and responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below are required to be successful in this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

• Monitor supply and inventory levels daily by manufacturer and the Distribution Center.
• Conduct root cause analysis on low or high stock planning exceptions.
• Identify gaps and work with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve.
• Escalate supply issues to leadership in a timely manner while providing recommendations to optimize inventory levels.
• Identify and independently execute optimal methods of re-stocking the impacted supplier or distribution partner.
• Work cross-functionally within the organization on both collecting inventory information and utilizing it to determine inventory health within the Supply Chain.
• Organize information concisely to present in a way that leaders can understand and use in decision making.
• Analyze patterns within exceptions and raise them for awareness of the broader team, providing recommendations for action.
• Gather and present data in charts, graphs, and tables.
• Locate and define new process improvement opportunities and work cross-functionally to execute them.
• Monitor, and report performance against Company OKRs, and Supply Chain KPI's and OKR’s.
• Support Supply Assurance peers with onboarding and leadership across multiple categories.
• All duties as reasonably assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Adaptability, attention to detail, decision making, planning, project management, team player, communication, data gathering & analysis.
• Willingness to operate in a dynamic environment with changing priorities working collaboratively as a part of a team.
• Strong process-orientation skills.
• Ability to analyze large data sets, identify trends, and effectively communicate with multi-level stakeholders as well as vendors, distribution partners and their representatives.
• Should be self-motivated, goal orientated, quality driven, and capable of working independently with little supervision.

Competencies:

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  Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm while maintaining humble professionalism
• Customer Focus: Building strong franchisee experience through customer and vendor relationships that delivers franchisee-centric solutions
• Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments, acts with a clear sense of ownership, takes personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and failures
• Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives while gaining trust and support of others
• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers a clear message in a variety of communication settings, attentively listens to others and adjusts their own style
• Decision Quality: Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward
• Plans and Aligns: Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
• Resourceful: Secures and deploys resources effectively and efficiently
• Self-Development: Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
• Tech Savvy: Anticipates and adopts innovations in business-building digital and technology applications

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain or related field is required.
• 3 years of demonstrated progression in a Supply Chain Planning role, preferred.
• Demonstrated working experience with Limited Time Offer items, preferred.
• Working experience as part of a formal S&OP or Integrated Business Planning process, preferred.
• Advanced in using a variety of computer software applications in word processing, spreadsheets, database, and presentation software (Micro Strategy, Tableau, MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.) and Business Intelligence, preferred.

Leadership Responsibility: None

Travel:
This job does not require international travel. Occasionally, local travel within driving distance, and overnight domestic travel may be required.

Work Conditions:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly sitting for long periods of time. Compliant with the ADA, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

This is a full-time position. Standard office hours of Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM EST. This position may require additional work hours outside these work hours, including weekends to complete job requirements.

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position. Team Members may be required to perform other duties as requested by their leader(s) in compliance with Federal and State laws.