Supply Chain Executive, Inbound Transportation - Kohls Department Stores : Job Details

As a Supply Chain Executive, you will support the execution of Kohl's logistics projects and supply chain scorecards to improve service, cost, quality, and speed.

What You'll Do

• Communicate supply chain issues and opportunities to business partners
• Conduct project analysis and reporting
• Support successful project and process execution
• Resolve remittance and operational issues
• Additional tasks may be assigned

Parcel

• Own supplier relationships and serve as the person of contact for Kohl's logistics
• Analyze data and make recommendations to drive packaging improvements and cost efficiencies
• Partner with suppliers to manage packaging inventory and expense across the network
• Partner with the procurement team on packaging RFP
• Serve as a liaison between parcel carriers and Kohl's fulfillment teams
• Maintain and communicate parcel shipping SOPs
• Serve as an escalation point to resolve operational issues
• Leverage internal reporting to assess and communicate feedback related to carrier performance
• Identify data integration and database solutions to reporting improvements

Transportation

• Oversee the day-to-day communication and interactions concerning global freight movement
• Manage annual ocean, air, and origin bids
• Partner with Procurement and Accounts Payable on invoicing
• Analyze, report, and scorecard
• Develop and voice your own ideas on how to improve processes and reduce costs

Merchant and Vendor Services

• Act as the liaison between merchants and third-party vendors in the supply chain
• Support new project implementations
• Identify and support strategies to remove friction within the supply chain
• Support the education of supply chain best practices throughout the organization and with vendors
• Identify strategies and deliver innovation with respect to operational implementation of opportunities that reduce costs or increase revenue
• Support recurring budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and other operational activities

Analytics

• Identify insights in data to make supply chain operations more efficient
• Partner with distribution center and transportation leaders to identify and design reporting for operations
• Partner with Kohl's Technology (KT) team to identify and connect to data sources needed for reporting and analysis
• Communicate facts and narratives concisely and precisely
• Build intuitive and insightful data visualizations
• Capably analyze data with SQL and R/Python
• Build reports in Qlik

Operations Planning

• Coordinate with partners across the organization to make short-term tactical and strategic inventory placement decisions
• Leverage systems and software to acquire data and conduct complex analysis of business issues and opportunities
• Identify strategies and coordinate the operational implementation of opportunities that reduce costs or increase revenue
• Support recurring budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and other operational activities that support Omni-channel fulfillment operations
• Oversee receipt planning, demand forecasting, and production planning for the broader supply chain network

Slotting

• Drive strategic inventory placement decisions within eCommerce Fulfillment Centers (EFCs) through collaboration with cross-functional teams across the organization
• Leverage data analysis to generate actionable insights that support space optimization initiatives aimed at enhancing delivery speed, boosting operational efficiency, and reducing costs
• Partner closely with EFC operations teams to develop intuitive dashboards and reporting tools that inform and optimize inventory storage strategies

Reverse Logistics

• Manage third-party vendor and return relationships
• Support new project implementations in reverse and operations spaces
• Identify strategies and deliver innovation with respect to operational implementation of opportunities that reduce costs or increase revenue
• Support recurring budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and other operational activities

Direct Ship

• Manage Direct Ship vendor performance through Vendor Compliance, Vendor Onboarding, Peak Readiness, and Operational Improvements/Efficiencies
• Develop strategies within vendor base to increase speed and accuracy to customer while driving down costs
• Partner with merchants to improve net margin
• Serve as the escalated contact for compliance chargeback disputes, order and inventory exceptions
• Research and action vendor/Kohl's cross-functional issues
• Identify strategies and deliver innovation with respect to operational implementation of opportunities that reduce costs or increase sales

What Skills You Have

Required

• Bachelor's Degree
• Demonstrated initiative and drive
• Strong analytical abilities and familiarity with spreadsheets
• Clear and professional communicator
• Overnight travel
• Flexible schedule to support peak business operations

Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management or Industrial Engineering
• Previous experience in supply chain management