Description

Position Purpose and Summary:

· The Senior Strategist plays a crucial role in enhancing organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Responsible for identifying areas of improvement within existing processes, analyzing data, and gathering requirements for enhancements. Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders to design and implement efficient workflows, ensuring successful process changes.

· Work with Logistics leaders to schedule optimization events that align our resources with organization deliverables. This will include leading implementation on critical projects as assigned and represent the optimization team as a conduit for Service team inquiries regarding routing solutions (outside of a normal route optimization event).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: List the principle on-going responsibilities that are necessary to accomplish the purpose of the job.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Optimization Senior Leaders to establish process design enhancements to improve project effectiveness and speed with network and route optimization events.

• Lead the pre-optimization market center analysis, including the formal review with Optimization and Market Center team Leadership, with a focus on summarizing risk areas and suggested implementation modifications to mitigate risk.

• Analyze and provide strategic guidance to the optimization team utilizing post event survey data. Establish a method of communication, schedule, and deliver result summary to key stakeholders.

· Administer network and route optimization schedule to effectively utilize engineering and implementation analyst resources; align project frequency to achieve company savings objectives.

• Optimization team conduit for Service team inquiries regarding routing solutions (outside of a normal route optimization event).

· Provide project implementation support for high-risk and complicated events, which will include leading events and assisting Route Execution Analysts as necessary.

· Monitors trends and reports to management any on-going or reoccurring issues around delivery and fleet operations.

· Reviews reports and dashboards for anomalies and identifies negative business trends in need of attention.

· Engage and support team collaboration.

· Identify and implement supply chain initiatives to support corporate strategies and goals.

· Creating and driving performance KPI, metrics and execution compliance.

STATUS AND SCOPE: Describe the reporting relationships, specific skills and abilities required to perform essential job functions.

This position reports to the Director, SCND Project Management-Implementation

• Strategic team member with confidence and speed in execution.

• Adept at analyzing data, behavior, and results to establish innovative solutions for process improvement.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams. Effective communication is essential for presenting strategies, gaining buy-in, and implementing changes.

• Experience leading teams, managing projects, and implementing strategic initiatives is beneficial. Ability to oversee optimization projects from inception to execution.

• Ability to solve complex problems

• Ability to execute routing and network solutions to meet the needs of high growth business

• Ability to collaborate and coordinate activity between multiple disciplines across multiple time zones

• Sound judgement and decision-making skills

• Drive for continuous improvement

• Strong understanding of logistics

• Strong ability to move between tactical and strategic aspects of business

• Confidence and success in problem resolution; resourceful with ability to adjust to change

• Strong financial/business literacy and analytical skills

• Strong systems knowledge/capability to manage and integrate operating data

QUALIFICATIONS: Describe experience, education and related course work typically required or expected to perform essential job functions.

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 4+ years’ progressive experience in complex supply chain and logistics operations.

• Extensive knowledge of network optimization (including sophisticated and robust modeling tools)

• Proven operational and technical expertise of network optimization.

• Excellent analytic and data skills in developing actionable KPIs and metrics around service and cost.

• Analytics approach to problem solving and a passion for delivering excellence to our customers.

Benefits: Vestis offers a wide array of comprehensive benefit programs and services including medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, and paid parental leave. Employees are able to enroll in the company’s 401k plan. Employees are eligible for 80 hours of vacation, 16 hours of floating holidays, and paid sick time every year. Employees will also receive 9 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

Compensation: The salary rate for this position ranges from $73,000 to $100,000, depending on circumstances including an applicant’s skills and qualifications, certain degrees and certifications, prior job experience, market data, and other relevant factors.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)