Your Opportunity as the Senior Analyst, Customer Supply Chain Initiatives- Target
This role offers the chance to drive impactful initiatives within Target's supply chain, optimizing inventory, and ensuring seamless modular execution while supporting sales growth and customer satisfaction. Collaborate across teams to balance inventory flow, leverage data for innovation, and enhance the efficiency of promotional and seasonal planning. This is a unique opportunity to influence key supply chain metrics and build strong customer relationships with one of the world's leading retailers.
Location: Orrville, Corporate Offices
Work Arrangements: Hybrid, 30% in office expectations
In this role you will:
-
Develop a thorough understanding of Target's supply chain, focusing on optimizing inventory levels and driving sales and profit growth.
-
Meet or exceed key performance indicators such as in-stock levels, fill rates, and on-time delivery.
-
Coordinate and lead modular execution, promotional planning, and seasonal transitions to ensure smooth implementation.
-
Leverage analytics and innovative strategies to improve promotional performance.
-
Identify and implement systematic and process improvements to enhance customer service and efficiency.
-
Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with Target's supply chain teams and internal operational partners.
-
Educate and support internal sales teams on supply chain initiatives, ensuring alignment with customer and organizational goals.
-
Translate supply chain initiatives into tangible sales and share growth opportunities.
The Right Role for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
-
Bachelor's degree in business, Supply Chain, or a related analytical field.
-
1–3 years of relevant business experience.
-
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to draw insights from data and develop actionable solutions.
-
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (including advanced functions like pivot tables) and other tools such as PowerPoint and Word.
-
Excellent planning, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
-
Experience in consumer packaged goods (CPG) or retail industries.
-
Familiarity with Spotfire or similar analytical tools.
-
Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functional teams and build effective relationships.
-
Proficiency in supply chain systems and an understanding of modular planning processes.
-
A customer service-oriented mindset with strong written and oral communication skills.
Learn more about working at Smucker:
-
Our Total Rewards Benefits Program
-
Our Thriving Together Philosophy Supporting All Impacted by Our Business
-
Our Continued Progress on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity
Follow us on LinkedIn®
#LI-JW1
#LI-Hybrid
Top Skills
What We Do
Each generation of consumers leaves their mark on culture by establishing new expectations for food and the companies that make it. At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to be at the heart of this dynamic with a portfolio that appeals to each generation of people and pets with products found in 90 percent of U.S. homes and countless restaurants. This includes a mix of iconic brands consumers have always loved such as Folgers®, Jif® and Milk-Bone® and new favorites like Café Bustelo®, Smucker’s® Uncrustables® and Rachael Ray® Nutrish®. By continuing to immerse ourselves in consumer and pet parent preferences for food, how it’s purchased and how the companies that make it should operate, we will maintain the important role we play in their lives. This will allow us to continue growing our business and the positive impact we have on all of those who count on us.
 PNG file.png)
