Position Location: Chicago, IL; Hybrid (2 days in office located in River North neighborhood)
Job Description
Country Archer is the #1 premium meat snack brand in the US! Since 2011, we've been leading the charge in raising snacking standards with our delicious jerky and meat sticks crafted from only real ingredients. As a rapidly growing company, we're not just offering a job – we're offering an opportunity to make a real impact. Join our team of talented professionals and be part of our entrepreneurial culture, where hard work and innovation are celebrated as we continue to push boundaries and redefine the snack industry. This is your chance to be part of something truly exciting and help shape the future of snacking.
The Supply Chain Associate is an exciting, rapid-growth role for junior talent at Country Archer Provisions. The position will report to the Director of Supply Chain Planning and will be primarily based in our Chicago, IL satellite office with support to our manufacturing and HQ facilities in Los Angeles, CA and San Bernardino, CA.
You will primarily be responsible for owning supply chain scheduling and planning for specific portions of our portfolio, as well as leading various analytical initiatives across the company’s supply chain and operations. In this role, you will develop and grow as a junior, emerging leader in our Supply Chain and Operations team and will learn the ins-and-outs of our business within your first year while having the opportunity to learn management skills and to make a positive impact to the business.
The ideal candidate will be eager to learn the end-to-end operation and supply chain of a food manufacturing company with a desire to grow in a management capacity in the years to come. The candidate should have strong written and oral communication skills, be a self-starter and independently driven, be able to conduct complex modeling and analyses and present the resulting findings and recommendations to senior and executive management and be comfortable engaging with teammates across all levels and departments.
Our company has a high energy, fast-paced and welcoming work culture in which everyone “roles up their sleeves” and partners closely together to continue to propel the company’s success. You will succeed in this position if you are high energy with a drive towards improvement and growth, a strong communicator and skilled engaging across multiple functions and levels across the team.
Key Responsibilities
- Creating manufacturing schedules, material replenishment plans (MRP) and demand plans (DP)
- Update the 18-month SKU level demand plan for all assigned channels leveraging historical shipments, sales data, distributor data
- Conducting Monthly Customer Forecast reviews and align with Sales team on future looking demand
- Reviewing weekly orders vs forecast with Sales team to understand root cause on errors and apply learnings to future looking forecast
- Conducting in depth analyses across the operations and supply chain, using Excel and other advanced engineering or statistical modeling tools as necessary
- Creating relevant reporting and dashboards that track against Key Performance Indicators
- Providing reports and recommendations to the company’s senior management and executives
- Leveraging distributor data to understand Customer level weeks of supply and adjust the future looking forecast accordingly
- Analytically supporting continuous improvement efforts and/or Lean Six Sigma (LSS) projects to meaningfully improve productivity, throughput and profitability
- Participating in leadership development and management trainings and offsites
- Delivering effective change leadership to drive business changes while minimizing people impact
- Partnering closely with operations and contract manufacturing team member and partners to optimize production schedules
- Maintaining and refreshing forecast and supply planning models weekly
- In collaboration with marketing, initiating and managing a cross-functional SKU rationalization evaluation, quarterly
- This role will have occasional travel to our HQ and manufacturing / partner facilities
Qualifications and Requirements
Education, Work Experience and Other Requirements
- Must be able to commute to River North office (downtown Chicago) twice a week
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, Economics, or similar technical degree
- Relevant coursework and team project experiences in supply chain, engineering, manufacturing, statistical analyses, or similar technical programming
Must-Have Skills & Capabilities:
- High energy coupled with a strong drive towards continuous improvement
- Strong communication skills (oral and written). Specifically, the confidence and comfort to communicate with senior and executive management on a daily basis, and provide report outs on all necessary monthly, quarterly, and compliance paperwork and activities
Computer and Technology Capability Requirements:
- Advanced functionality in Excel
- Ability to conduct modeling exercises and analytics using Excel or other statistical models / programs