Digital/Sr Mgr Ecom Forecasting & Inventory Mgmt

Kroger•Cincinnati, OH

About The Position

Oversee all aspects of e-Commerce inventory management and financial forecasting and planning. Partner with various leaders within the organization including merchandising, marketing, and warehouse management to monitor and execute inventory and financial plans in order to drive to enterprise level digital plan. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree
7+ years one of the following areas: eCommerce, sourcing, replenishment buying/procurement, merchandising
Excellent oral/written communication skills and extreme attention-to-detail
Proficient Microsoft Office skills

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated leadership experience

Responsibilities

Direct and implement strategic direction of enterprise ecommerce inventory planning team
Lead S&OP process ensuring synergies and collaboration between planning and warehouse
Create and communicate daily, period level total enterprise digital forecast along with potential risk to yearly plan
Collaborate with key stakeholders within enterprise Digital Experience to drive the overall plan
Oversee inventory planning and purchasing for enterprise wide e-Commerce assortment
Coordinate, communicate, and partner on all e-Commerce banner promotional activities with regards to inventory needs and warehouse KPI's to help drive service-level agreement (SLA) standards
Manage and maximize e-Commerce profit and inventory levels through vendor relationship
Align with cross functional stakeholders on all components of e-Commerce enterprise financial forecasting including sales, traffic, conversion, average order value (AOV) store openings, throttle capacity, etc.
Prepare, manage, and communicate divisional and category level digital forecast
Partner with various marketing and merchandising area owners to understand impacts to overall digital KPI's based on enterprise campaigns and strategies as well as post mortem results
Research and understand financial ecommerce KPI risks at a daily, period, yearly level to plan numbers and strategize with various business owners and management to continually maximize revenue growth
Partner with 84.51 on customer behavior and spend within each modality and enterprise level to ensure continual digital growth
Collaborate with digital operations team to understand store opening impacts and identify plan risks based on calendar and divisional roll outs
Manage and maintain effective communication with cross-functional partners
Complete daily ad hoc business analysis
Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports
Travel to work campuses to attend company meetings
Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation