Location: Manchester

Type: Permanent

Industry: Textiles

Job Ref: TGN4714

The Company:
We are looking for a Category Supply Chain Analyst to join a Global Textiles company supporting key stakeholders and National Retail customers.

You will be responsible for monitoring supply chain performance and generating data-driven insights including demand planning; sales and operations planning and inventory.

This is a highly analytical role requiring someone with experience in Retail and Supply Chain/ Sales Analysis

Excellent career development and training to work as part of a dynamic team.

Benefits:

• Hybrid Working.
• 25 days per year plus statutory bank holidays.
• Company pension.
• Employee discount. 

Job Role

• Liaising with National Retail customers to understand their supply chain process and analyse various data points to derive meaningful insights, optimising efficiency and profitability.
• Work closely with Fulfilment, Inventory, and Demand Planning teams with a microscopic focus on the business deriving ways to upgrade the program efficiencies.
• Ability to analyse large amounts of data including store-wise, Point of Sale & DC based inventories into actionable insights.
• Generate weekly Inventory reports and provide insights, identify opportunities, and delivering solutions that drive operational efficiencies.
• Present supply chain trends across DCs effectively
• Leverage technology to visually represent the compelling status of Operations (e.g., heat mapping, Power BI, etc.)
• Suggest Improvements to streamline the supply chain process for seamless operations optimising working capital and product availability.
• Pre-empt supply chain risks and develop strategies to resolve any issues enabling the buying team to make strategic calls.
• Weekly critical path / supply chain summary across ranges
• Propose adjustments to category ranges, based on Sales Analysis and recommendations to be presented as part of range-planning process at the appropriate time.
• Attend customer meetings.

Skills Required:

• Excellent IT skills including Excel, ideally Power BI and knowledge of ERP systems.
• Analytical and commercially minded.
• Excellent communication skills
• Solutions focussed.
• Previous experience in a similar role, Supply Chain, Category Management and Sales Analysis