WH 3rd Shift Distribution Specialist

Excell Marketing LC•Des Moines, IA

11h•Onsite

About The Position

The Distribution Specialist is responsible for managing the distribution of product to customers. This includes verifying product availability, creating and releasing sales orders, and maintaining an accurate and concise schedule of customer shipments. Additional responsibilities include assisting in the distribution of product for managed chains and providing support services to the Director of Product Distribution for ensuring new and reordered product are distributed in a timely and efficient manner. This will be at our South location at 5501 Park Ave, Des Moines, Iowa, 50321.

Requirements

Extensive knowledge of products.
Understanding of the distribution process
Understanding of plan-o-grams
Attention to detail an imperative
Strong organizational skills
Ability to multi-task and set priorities.
Outstanding computer skills, including advanced level of knowledge of Microsoft Excell.
Use of other database and analysis tools is a plus.
Good organizational skills
Good proactive communication skills
Ability to manage more than one process at a time
Must be a problem solver and independent thinker
Able to perform the responsibilities of the position well under pressure.
Requires critical thinking and strategic planning skills.
Requires adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another without loss of efficiency or composure.
Requires the ability to manage several projects at one time and may be interrupted frequently to meet the needs and requests of others.
Requires adaptability to fluctuate between priorities daily while being responsive to needs as they arise.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with managed customer shipments and new product distribution – including Quick Ships as a support service.

Responsibilities

Development of team members in supporting function.
Attend weekly meetings as necessary - production.
Manage the daily reception of new POs from Customers and schedule POs to ship in a timely manner.
Manage POs for all customers.
Research and advise Sales Operations of product availability for customer orders.
Prepare the sales order for all DC customers and send to warehouse for shipment in a timely manner.
Review the shipment of sales orders for customers and respond to inquiries regarding shipments.
Work with IT to get customers moved to the automated system, if warranted.
Monitor new product arrival and manufactured product availability and facilitate distribution of new/manufactured product.
Maintain POG assignments for products and for individual stores.
Create quick ships and manual shipments as needed to distribute new product.
Manage inputs into Replenishment System.
Maintain inputs on changes to individual managed customer accounts.
Monitor and maintain weeks of supply levels.