Analyst, Expense Store Supply

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future visa sponsorship

General Summary :

Your strong analytical, communication, project coordination, and organizational skills, along with your ability to identify operational inefficiencies and make appropriate recommendations for correction, make you a great fit for our Expense Supply Store Analyst position. Join our dynamic team today and find a rewarding career with a company that values you and all you bring to the table.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

As an Expense Supply Store Analyst at Family Dollar’s corporate office, you’ll be responsible for order placement for all existing enterprise stores and distribution centers along with day-to-day operational execution, follow-up, and customer service for field requisitions. You’ll be responsible for reviewing and addressing all supply requests coming into the expense mailboxes for existing stores and ensure the correct use of expense resources (supplies and fixtures) while adjusting as needed to be in compliance with all company directives and budgets. You will be responsible for purchase order management, maintaining positive relationships with suppliers, coordinating with internal teams regarding supply needs, and supplies inventory management for all enterprise distribution centers. You will be responsible for overall supplier data integrity of expense SKUs in core merchandising system; assist in the sourcing and negotiation of assigned commodities and the allocation of needed material, supplies, and fixtures to stores as required, and manage and optimize purchasing activities and processes. You’ll utilize data to build and implement best practices for supplies expense process workflow. Your day-to-day duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Monitor expense mailboxes for all US stores. Execute ordering through Distribution Centers and Ariba while controlling expense and awareness of period fiscal boundaries. Make decisions on order quantity and need to defer expense within the parameters of the roll. Assist field personnel with ordering expense supply items that are not store orderable. Work with Logistics to ensure delivery.

• Maintain all expense SKU catalogs and ordering guides for stores.

• Work with Zone Vice Presidents and Regional Directors to understand ad hoc field needs and process iShop and purchasing mailbox orders for select existing stores as needed with accountability to the period budget and forecast. Elevate request that would pressure the budget to the director with a forecast recommendation.

• Support the creation of detailed, in-depth analysis of historical transactions, anticipated demand, and relate their stock positions to short- and long-term trends to ensure proper inventory levels in DCs in coordination with Expense Supervisor.

• Query/analyze/report weekly, bi-weekly and periodically based on spend. Advise on spend levels and request during the weekly spend review.

• Regular reviews of Logistics procedures and service quality of the DCs.

• Create and track POs to support DC replenishment, on-time delivery, and mitigate back orders.

• Register new suppliers and maintain data for existing suppliers for sourcing and iShop systems.

• Maintain master data for supplier catalogs within the iShop system.

• Assist with processes including PO management, requisitions, catalog development, supplier on boarding, supplier compliance, and internal user compliance as needed.

• Develop knowledge of iShop reporting capabilities for queries and trend analysis.

• Provide a consistent supply management methodology for costs, quality and service. Reconcile physical inventory counts to general ledger records.

• Research and analyze the entire supply chain for potential cost savings and process improvement.

• Maintain proper inventory control procedures and paperwork.

Position Requirements:

• 3-5+ years of work experience in Retail Operations, Order Processing, Project Coordination, or Inventory Control or related degree is required.

• Demonstrate strong analytical, communication, project coordination and organizational skills. Be deadline driven, work well under pressure and possess the ability to identify operational inefficiencies and make appropriate recommendations for correction.

• Ability to build strong relationships and work well within a team.

• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and to meet project deadlines

• Strong Excel skills and proficient in Microsoft applications.

• Office work environment, 40+ work hours per week.

• Some travel may be required (less than 10%).

Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration including Accounting or Finance or 2-4 years related work experience.

• Minimum 3 years’ experience with purchase order management/Inventory ordering system.

• Purchase Order and Accounting knowledge.

• Merchandise or expense allocation experience.

• Minimum 3 years’ project coordination experience.

Projected Salary Range: $65,000-$81,500

Family Dollar is an equal opportunity employer and committed to recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and making all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We are committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.

Full time

510 Volvo Parkway,Chesapeake,Virginia 23320

Expense Management

Family Dollar