Supply Chain Project Manager Job in Los Angeles 90064, California Us
FIJI® Water, natural artesian water bottled at the source in Viti Levu (Fiji islands), is the #1 premium bottled water in the United States and one of the fastest-growing brands worldwide. A product of one of the last virgin ecosystems on the planet, natural pressure forces FIJI Water out of its aquifer deep below the earth’s surface and into iconic square bottles through a sealed delivery system free of human contact. FIJI Water’s unique mineral profile lends to its refreshing taste and soft mouth feel that have made it a favorite among top chefs and the winner of taste tests by Chicago Magazine, Cook’s Illustrated Buying Guide, Men’s Health, Every Day with Rachael Ray and others.
The FIJI Water company is committed to sustainable development and is the primary driver of economic development and social welfare in Fiji. FIJI Water reinvests substantial resources to expand access to clean, safe drinking water throughout the Fiji Islands and to provide quality education and health care for the people of the Yaqara Valley. As the first net carbon negative product in its industry, FIJI Water is also reducing carbon emissions across the product’s entire lifecycle and then offsetting at least 120% of remaining emissions through a rainforest restoration project in the Fiji Islands. FIJI Water has also partnered with Conservation International and the people of Fiji to protect and preserve the Sovi Basin, the largest remaining lowland rainforest in the South Pacific.
FIJI Water’s parent company is Roll Global LLC, a private holding company that also owns Teleflora, POM Wonderful, and Paramount Agribusiness (nuts and citrus).
The role of the Project Manager is to lead supply chain improvement projects such as optimizing our delivery network, implementing EDI and other technology related improvements, reviewing our national accounts delivery performance, analyzing our forecasting accuracy, and identifying and implementing other improvements in our supply chain operations. In addition, the Project Manager will review raw material needs and perform raw materials spend analysis, review product trials, and serve as backup to other supply chain team members.
The Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of their projects: formulating the work plan, gathering the requirements, designing the solution, creating the test scenarios, testing the solution, and communicating the progress of each project to the relevant stakeholders in a concise and organized fashion.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Lead management of improvement projects (80% of time)
- Review on a quarterly basis our total cost to deliver to each ship to location and determine any changes based on the lowest cost delivery
- Analyze on a monthly basis our national accounts delivery performance. Identify areas for improvement and develop and implement changes.
- Analyze on a monthly basis our forecasting accuracy. Determine areas where we can improve and provide feedback to our sales team.
- Warehouse communications: EDI 940/945 and 943/944 implementations. Lead the design, testing and rollout.
- Customer communications: EDI 850/810/856 implementations. Lead the design testing and rollout.
Raw materials inventory management (10% of time)
- Assist with reviewing the production plan and determining our raw materials procurement needs.
- Assist with communicating changes to any raw materials to our suppliers.
- Report raw materials purchases, MTD, QTD and YTD and provide forecast of year end raw materials spend.
Review product trials (5% of time)
- Based on what is being trialed, analyze the product being trialed and provide results back to the plant.
Serve as backup for other supply chain team members (5% of time)
- Assist with system to system inventory reconciliations. This is comparing our inventory numbers stored in our ERP system against our 3PL providers’ WMS inventory numbers.
- Assist with physical inventory reconciliations where the physically counted inventory is compared against our inventory numbers stored in our ERP system.
- BS/BA required; preferably in Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management/Research, Mathematics, MIS, or IT.
- Supply chain, operations research, purchasing background a plus
- At least 2 years of project management experience
- Strong analytics and strategic thinking skills
- Requires experience accessing, compiling and analyzing large volumes of data into concise and precise information utilizing tools/databases such as Oracle;
- Candidates must be comfortable with constantly shifting priorities.
- Candidates must be self-motivated, detail-oriented and have the ability to work with limited supervision in a fast-paced, small-team environment.
- Outstanding verbal/written communication, presentation, organizational and teamwork skills are required
- High level of proficiency in Project, Word, Excel, Power Point.
Req. Code : 3026
Division/Department : FIJI Water