Instock Manager

Chewy • Boston, MA

2d

About The Position

Oriented, ambitious Instock Manager to join our exciting and collaborative team. In this role you will play a vital role in the Instock organization owning end-to-end planning and execution of inventory forecasting and purchasing through fulfillment. The ideal candidate will have experience creating supply planning strategy, forecasting demand at multiple levels of aggregation, a passion for problem solving and process improvement, a track record for utilizing data to drive decisions, and vendor relationship management. You will own metrics across your business such as Instock rates, forecasting accuracy, and inventory placement. This role requires excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will get to work side by side with smart and passionate entrepreneurs. If you're equally passionate about supply chain, ecommerce and career growth, an opportunity at Chewy may be a great match!

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience in Supply Chain
• Bachelor's degree in Business: Supply Chain, Logistics, Management, Economics, or related field
• Ability to effectively operate both independently and as part of a team
• Strong written, verbal, analytical and problem-solving skills
• A proven ability to multi-task and thrive under pressure and deadlines
• Knowledgeable in forecasting algorithms and models
• Microsoft Office skills

Nice To Haves

• E-commerce experience
• SQL, Python, KNIME, programming experience
• Lean/Six Sigma experience

Responsibilities

• Build stop-gap solutions that impact Instock workflows, with emphasis on automating manual tasks and defining new processes.
• Liaise with centralized tech teams to provide requirements, audit inputs and outputs, submit feature requests, and flag bugs.
• Understand the details of your business and relevant KPIs to support goal delivery and use this information to influence vendors in owned category to drive metric improvement.
• Analyze multiple, large data sets to identify actionable insights that drive improvement across your team.
• Write 1-2 paragraphs within various larger business documents and create standalone 1-2 page documents.
• Proactively identify and communicate issues, changes to priorities, or changes to functional strategy to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Provide transparency into status of deliverables using varying communication techniques and styles as required.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to foster alignment where needed to achieve best business outcomes while encouraging opposing viewpoints to overcome obstacles and balance competing goals.

Benefits

• 401k
• new hire and annual equity grant
• annual bonus (for C08+ positions)
• medical/Rx insurance
• vision insurance
• dental insurance
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• hospital indemnity insurance
• critical illness insurance
• accident insurance
• parental leave
• family services benefits
• backup dependent care
• flexible spending accounts
• telemedicine
• pet adoption reimbursement
• employee assistance program
• discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com
• unlimited PTO (subject to manager approval for exempt salary team members)
• six paid holidays per year
• paid sick and family leave (in compliance with applicable state and local regulations)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level