Instock Manager

Our Opportunity: 

Chewy is growing! We are looking for a highly motivated, results-oriented, high-reaching Instock Manager to join our exciting  Pharmacy 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 using 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 hard-working and passionate entrepreneurs. If you're equally passionate about supply chain, e-commerce and career growth, an opportunity at Chewy may be a great match! 

What You'll Do: 

• 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 critical metrics 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 partners. Provide clarity into status of deliverables using varying communication techniques and styles as required. 
• Partner with cross-functional teams to cultivate alignment where needed to achieve best business outcomes while encouraging opposing viewpoints to overcome obstacles and balance competing goals. 

What You'll Need: 

• 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 track record to multi-task and thrive under pressure and deadlines 
• Knowledgeable in forecasting algorithms and models 
• Microsoft Office skills 

A Plus if You Have: 

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