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KeHE has a Supply Chain Operations Systems Manager position open. The Supply Chain Operations Systems Manager will drive the implementation, optimization, and integration of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Order Management Systems (OMS) solutions within their distribution operations. This role requires a deep understanding of warehouse automation, order fulfillment processes, and system capabilities to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve inventory accuracy. This position involves cross-functional collaboration, project leadership, and mentoring of system analysts. Salary range is $83,265 – $122,084 and they offer benefits on day 1 such as health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Some essential functions are the following:

• Implement and optimize Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Order Management Systems (OMS) for retail and distribution operations.
• Bring industry best practices to enhance business processes and system capabilities within the food distribution sector.
• Evaluate, design, configure, and test WMS and OMS solutions to meet operational needs and improve efficiency.
• Stay ahead of industry trends in warehouse automation and order management, identifying opportunities for innovation.
• Lead system integration efforts between WMS, OMS, and ERP solutions, ensuring seamless functionality across platforms.
• Provide guidance to system analysts on software development, testing scenarios, and user acceptance testing (UAT) processes.
• Collaborate with warehouse operations teams to enhance receiving, putaway, picking, replenishment, sorting, and shipping workflows.
• Oversee automation implementations, ensuring effective integration with WMS and host systems.

The Director, Supply Chain – Center of Store is a key role supporting their strategic vision to be the preferred supply chain partner in the specialty, natural & organic, and fresh marketplace in North America. Reporting to the Executive Director of Supply Chain, the Director, Supply Chain – Center of Store will lead a team of supply planning professionals that have responsibility for overall customer fill rate and operational success in KeHE’s center of store business. This position provides the leadership necessary to achieve key objectives: managing inventory levels and turns, achieving/improving targeted customer service levels, mitigating inventory obsolescence/spoils, and partnering with suppliers to improve inbound service level metrics and reduce end-to-end supply chain costs. The Director, Supply Chain – Center of Store will work cross-functionally with peers in account management, supplier management, transportation, warehouse operations, inbound freight carriers, and suppliers. Salary range is $135,000 – $155,000 and they offer benefits on day 1 such as health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential Functions:

• Lead, mentor and develop a dynamic team of purchasing professionals.
• Develop and maintain a high-performance culture in the function, resulting in continued success meeting functional KPIs and improved levels of customer service to interior and exterior customers.
• Establish and maintain measurable performance metrics for all levels of procurement activities to include but not limited to supplier performance, supplier quality, internal order placement performance, buyer activity levels, financial (AP) performance, and inventory shortage elimination.
• Implement smooth and efficient business processes that support and integrate with the customer.
• Report to management the measurable status of progress and corrective actions as it pertains to supplier performance.
• Ensure performance improvement and recovery plans are developed, issued, tracked and reported on as required for supply base management and improvement.
• Negotiate and execute purchase orders as needed to support the critical business needs.
• Manage product flow to ensure inventory is maintained to the optimum level to support on time customer deliveries while keeping inventory holdings at the appropriate levels.
• Liaise with counterparts in other functional areas such as Sales, Transportation, and Warehouse personnel to ensure alignment of activities and objectives.
• Identify supplier opportunities and challenges and partner with the Supplier Management team to ensure appropriate resolution.

KeHE is seeking a Digital Advertising Specialist to join their team. The Digital Advertising Specialist is responsible for communicating, selling, aggregating, and providing insights into the effectiveness of supplier advertising campaigns. This role will collaborate closely with the Senior Advertising Manager to align advertising insights with supplier campaign objectives. A key priority will be delivering proof of performance and managing billing for supplier advertising. Additionally, the Digital Marketing Specialist will play a crucial role in the supplier road mapping process and in achieving income targets for all marketing advertising. Pay range is $60,000 – $78,000 and they offer benefits on day 1 such as health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential Functions

• Assist the Sr. Advertising Manager in achieving income budget through leading/attending supplier meetings & Category Management & supplier/broker training.
• Provide customized supplier advertising data to support roadmap contract process.
• Sell advertising opportunities for the New@KeHE program, KeHE Solutions program, advertising inventory gaps and recovery and other advertising programs.
• Provide analysis of supplier return on investment (ROI), key metrics, billing, and advertising proof of performance.
• Compile data reports for the Marketing team.
• Conduct regular advertising reporting and tracking, providing insights and action plans for Marketing and Category Management teams.
• Execute various monthly digital programs in KeHE CONNECT® platforms.
• Utilize data to identify trends and areas for improvement and recommendations.

KeHE is seeking a Senior Staff Accountant to join their team. The Senior Staff Accountant is an integral part of the General Accounting team and will be responsible for ensuring accurate presentation of financial records. The Senior Staff Accountant will perform complex month-end close entries, balance sheet reconciliations, analysis and special projects as assigned. Additionally, the Senior Staff Accountant will collaborate with operations management teams to build financial acumen in those areas. Salary range is $69,300.00/yr. – $101,640.00/yr. and they offer benefits on day 1 such as health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential Functions:

• Compile, manipulate and interpret large operational datasets.
• Identify and investigate drivers of financial metrics and variances.
• Trace and troubleshoot system driven accounting processes.
• Prepare and record accurate month end close entries.
• Translate business processes into accounting entries and vice versa.
• Contribute to financial statements preparation.
• Assisting with tax compliance.
• Serve as SME on financial questions to departmental leaders.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts.
• Assist Accounting Leadership with special projects.

KeHE has a Collections Specialist position open. The Collections Specialist monitors the aging of customer receivables and takes corrective action to resolve open accounts receivable balances on a timely basis. They accomplish monthly team productivity goals and currency objectives. Pay range is $15.72/hr. – $26.50/hr. Benefits are offered after 30 days, health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential Functions:

• Monitor and maintain a portfolio of accounts, including but not limited to resolution process development, account adjustments, and credit risk analysis.
• Establish or maintain account reconciliations using an analytical approach and present effectively.
• Work directly with customers regarding delinquent payments, investigate discrepancies, and negotiate repayment.
• Provide professional service regarding sensitive issues, effectively answering questions and resolving both internal and external customer concerns.
• Make recommendations and escalate issues with customer accounts to Accounting and Sales Management with timely follow-ups.
• Accomplish monthly team productivity goals and currency objectives.

KeHE is hiring for a Cash Applications Specialist. This role is responsible for timely and accurate application of customer cash receipts to the accounts receivable sub-ledger. This is an opportunity to join a growing team and an evolving function. This role is onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Pay Range is $15.72/hr. – $26.50/hr. Benefits are offered after 30 days, health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential Functions:

• High volume data entry of customer cash receipts to the accounts receivable sub-ledger in a timely and accurate manner.
• Download, review, and post all lockbox, checks, wire transfers, and electronic fund payments on a current and daily basis.
• Identify and communicate discrepancies in payments received with the Accounts Receivable team members, including chargebacks, deductions, and unapplied payments.
• Prepare and process credit card payments.
• Tracks lock box deposits and reports discrepancies to Accounts Receivable Manager.
• Reconciles general ledger to accounts receivable sub-ledger on a daily basis.
• Interact with Accounts Receivable Department to resolve related matters.
• Research and report issues to management.
• Escalates issues regarding unapplied cash to A/R Management, Sales and Finance.
• Must maintain good attendance.
• Maintain safe work practices.
• Maintain safeguards of confidential company information.

KeHE is hiring for a Marketing Analyst. The Analyst of Marketing Data and Insights will provide data-driven and strategic insights to enhance the impact of KeHE’s marketing initiatives. This role focuses on leveraging data to uncover trends, assess ROI, and deliver actionable insights to marketing leadership and cross-departmental partners. This individual will transform complex datasets into compelling narratives, helping guide strategic decision-making for digital marketing campaigns, events, and advertising efforts. In addition to data analysis, the role involves managing day-to-day data processes, improving workflows, and driving innovation within the marketing team. The ideal candidate is a creative and analytical collaborator who excels at storytelling with data and thrives in rethinking and refining current strategies to drive progress.
Pay range is $60,000/Yr. – $75,768/Yr. and they offer benefits on day 1 such as health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential Functions:

• Reporting, Data Collection, & Implementation
  • Track, report, and analyze the performance of marketing activities, ad-hoc analytic requests, and develop/automate regular reports.
  • Support Advertising team by analyzing advertising performance, providing Supplier ROI, and recommending next steps
  • Utilize data gathered from marketing campaign tracking to help deduce findings and ideas for implementation across multiple channels like web, social, email, live events, webinars, and platforms (KeHE platforms, Microsoft Dynamics).
  • Function as a lead to help connect and analyze data sources across our department and the company to deduce actionable insights.
  • Present to key stakeholders using data insights and clear visualizations to tell a story.
  • Own Google Analytics data to regularly recommend updates/improvements to drive revenue, SEO, and ROI.
  • Utilize custom views and data mining within Microsoft Dynamics
  • Partner with content team to create and share monthly reports on all Organic and Paid Social & Email Marketing Campaigns.
• KeHE Digital Marketing Platform® & Shows
  • Track, analyze, and create reports and dashboards for:
    • KeHE Shows & Events
    • KeHE.com and social presence
    • Communications
  • Collaborate with Manager, Digital Marketing and Sales and the Sales Enablement team to create and implement innovative ideas for promotions through KeHE’s platforms.
  • Support all areas of KeHE’s Digital Marketing Platform events including contact management, event creation, data entry, training retailers & sales team, and reporting on digital promotional events.

KeHE is seeking a Director for Product Delivery to join their team. As the Operations Product Delivery Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future vision and technology roadmap for Warehouse Operations and Transportation. You will lead the execution and delivery of key technology and process solutions, including new WMS and OMS, to optimize warehouse and transportation operations. By partnering closely with the Supply Chain Management team, Engineering, and key business stakeholders, you will ensure that new supply chain products and initiatives are delivered on time, aligned with business objectives, and generate measurable value.
Pay range is $150,000.00/Yr. – $219,000.00/Yr. and they offer benefits on day 1 such as health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Some essential functions of the position are the following:

• Strong Partnership with the Operations/Supply Chain organization:
  • Build a strong partnership with the Supply Chain/Distribution business organization to drive innovation.
  • Provide strategic thought leadership across all operations applications, including replenishment, transportation and warehouse operation.
  • Lead teams of technical innovators to deliver measurable business outcomes using a product-centric delivery model.
  • Act as a trusted advisor on technologies and processes related to the operation organization.
• Product-Centric Delivery
  • Deliver frequent releases of new capabilities that meet or exceed stated business outcomes.
  • Serve as the owner of Operation Products, overseeing vision, execution, and ultimate product success.
  • Champion agile methodologies, coaching teams to drive a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Leverage a deep understanding of KeHE’s digital product development process—including the technology stack, information architecture, and resource constraints—to drive innovation.
• Leadership & Operational Excellence
  • Build, retain, and develop a high-performing technology team, including coaching product owners and technology leaders.
  • Manage operating expenses and capital expenditures for all product teams within the Commercial Product area.
  • Support business adoption, including participation in business and sales events.
  • Develop and present ROI-driven analysis to justify system and functional improvements.

KeHE is hiring for a Benefits Specialist. The Benefits Specialist supports the benefits team, Total Rewards Leaders, and sites across the enterprise with support on all benefit administrative duties and issues. Acts as a liaison between the sites, other HR team members, and vendors to resolve issues. This role assists in the development of processes and communication materials.
Pay range is $25.75 – $32.21 an hour. and they offer benefits on day 1 such as health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential functions of the position:

• Review benefits admin platform to ensure employee enrollment, termination of benefits, or other changes.
• Maintain electronic employee benefit files and updates payroll records in Dayforce for benefits. 
• Review, process and manages benefit related inquires received through the benefits help desk. 
• Review and research discrepancy reports provided by vendors as well as those run internally.   
• Process necessary corrections to ensure accuracy and data integrity.  
• Assist in the creation of processes and procedures to be compliant with state, federal and IRS regulations.  
• Create and update SOPs as they pertain to internal processes. 
• Coordinate and communicate life insurance claims with beneficiaries and HRBPs.  
• Assist with managing COBRA related benefits. 
• Assist in the development of benefit communications. 
• Provide recommendations based on patterns or questions received through the benefits help desk or HRBPs. 
• Assist in the coordination, communication and execution of the annual open enrollment process. 
• Assist with the processing of national medical support notices. 
• Assist with processing monthly billing. 
• Provide exceptional service and support to internal and external customers. 
• Maintain safeguards of confidential company information. 
• Support the senior team in Total Rewards and benefits administrative activities. 

KeHe has a UX/UX Designer position to fill. The UX/UI Designer partners with their engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to practice high-level research strategy across multiple product teams while guiding the execution to align with KeHE’s vision. With help from the design team, you will support and champion the process for developing a cohesive experience across applications by maintaining a living style guide and pattern library. As an integral part of the product development team, a UI/UX Designer works with product teams to ensure teams are delivering a customer-focused experience that drives business outcome by advocating UX methodologies and techniques.
Embedded within the product and engineering teams, the UX/UI Designer facilitates design thinking workshops, creates and carries out research plans, and designs interactive and visual design solutions including wireframes, UI design comps, specifications, and interactive prototypes. This critical team member enables the delivery of high-quality enterprise and customer facing products, rapidly and iteratively.
Pay range is $69,393.00/Yr. – $101,701.00/Yr. and they offer benefits on day 1 such as health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential functions of the position:

• Design elegant, thoughtful solutions for complex workflows through the use of type, hierarchy, interactions, and design patterns.
• Assure design quality by collaborating closely with design team, developers, product owners, and business analysts to write clear and detailed specs.
• Effectively communicate design decisions to product and leadership teams.
• Keep up with evolving design trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Contribute visual styles to KeHE’s design system; maintain and update our pattern library, living style guide and sketch component library.
• Conduct user and competitive research.
• Facilitate research sessions to identify business, user, and technical requirements.
• Use modern UX methodologies and techniques to inspire design thinking and create supporting documentation including personas, customer journeys, task flows, site maps, UI specifications & requirements, prototypes/wireframes.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, and Developers to define and translate business and functional requirements into user-friendly and technically optimal/feasible designs.
• Design and conduct usability studies to ensure designs are intuitive and easy-to-use.
• Demonstrate UI/UX best practices in product teams.
• Stay current with UX, visual design, and front-end technologies.

KeHe has an Accounts Receivable Analyst position open. The Accounts Receivable Analyst will monitor the aging of customer receivables and pro-actively takes corrective action to resolve open accounts receivable balances in a timely manner. Establishes credibility within the organization and will be decisive while recognizing and supporting the organization’s priorities.
Pay range is $27.00/Hr. – $31.25/Hr. and they offer benefits on day 1 such as health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential functions of the position:

• Responsible for the creation and management of a resolution process.
• Establish and maintain account reconciliations using an analytical approach.
• Accomplish monthly team productivity goals and currency objectives.
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining a portfolio of accounts, including but not limited to customer calls, resolution process development, account adjustments, reconciliations and monthly reporting.
• Analyze large amounts of data and present analysis effectively.
• Requires broad conceptual judgment, initiative, and ability to deal with complex AR aging.
• Works directly with customers regarding delinquent payments, investigates discrepancies and makes recommendations for resolution of discrepancies and customer deductions.
• Provides professional service with regard to sensitive issues, effectively answering questions and resolving both internal and external customer concerns.
• Makes recommendations for collections efforts and escalates issues with customer accounts to Accounting and Sales Management; follows up in a timely manner.
• Holds monthly conference calls and communicates effectively with Sales Management regarding status of customer accounts.
• Review collection techniques and provide feedback to management.
• Knowledge of collection procedures, policies and standards are essential.
• Knowledge of General Accounting Principles and the ability to analyze and interpret financial data.
• Be involved with or lead special projects as time or capabilities allow.

KeHe is hiring for a Marketing Executive Director. The Executive Director of Marketing will report directly to KeHE’s Vice President of Marketing & Digital Media and oversee the KeHE’s insight automation, which augments communications with smart intelligence to drive commercial success, digital events team, KeHE’s content platforms, public relations, social media, and feedback initiatives. This strategic leader will be responsible for influencing cross-functional partners and external partners and for leading a team that is responsible for topline and bottom-line advertising contributions.
Pay range is $141,000.00/Yr. – $190,000.00/Yr. and they offer benefits on day 1 such as health/Rx, dental, vision, flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA), supplemental life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, paid sick time, short term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD), employee stock ownership (ESOP), and holiday pay for company designated holidays. Click on Apply Now to see full details about the position.

• Essential Functions
  • Lead in the design, acquisition, implementation, and support of cloud and on-premises compute and storage infrastructure.
  • Analyze infrastructure to determine and resolve inefficiencies.
  • Manage infrastructure projects and make recommendations on solutions.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in infrastructure technology and best practices.
  • Collaborate with network engineers, security engineers and other IT professionals.
• Technical Leadership and Project Management
  • Provide technical leadership and overall project management of various essential and high visibility projects.
  • Technical lead for design and administration decisions related to Infrastructure.
  • Training/Mentoring: Promote the professional growth of the team.
• Support and Operations
  • Performance and capacity planning: monitor, reconfigure and tune hardware and software for performance improvements and future scalability.
  • Provide Tier III support for essential infrastructure as needed. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
  • Ensure that systems are running at optimal performance and best practice.

TransChicago Truck Group is seeking an Accounts Receivable Collections Specialist to join their team. The Accounts Receivable (AR) Collections Specialist is responsible for the collection of receivables from customers. Pay range is $19-$23/hour. Compensation will be determined based on experience, competencies, certifications, and education, and benefits are offered.

• Perform AR collection calls for customers as needed or where directed.
• Send account statements and invoice copies upon request.
• Review and respond to messages from the AR mailbox.
• Checks customer references and forwards to AR Manager for approval.
• Perform customer account research and reconciliations.
• Record customer call notes in system.
• Prepare and submit refund requests.
• Process credit applications and follow up on customer references.
• Review and release credit over-rides as directed.
• Provide coverage to the front desk receptionist.
• Enforce established credit policies, procedures and changes requested by management.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Maintain customer accounts and settings in accounting system.
• Act as back-up to the department on as needed basis: research and resolve credit card disputes, process receipts/cash application, daily deposits, daily bank transfers, and journal entries.

A Safety and Compliance Director position needs to be filled at TransChicago Truck Group in Elmhurst. The Director of Safety & Compliance is responsible for directing and maintaining the health and safety program of TransChicago Truck Group. This position will oversee the development and implementation of behavior-based safety practices, audit functions for health and safety procedures, ensures compliance with OSHA and other regulating bodies. **This role will be onsite M-F at our Elmhurst location, with as needed travel to our other locations in the Chicago-area** Compensation: $110,000-$135,000.  Compensation will be determined based on experience, competencies, certifications, and education. Benefits are included. What you need to succeed (Skills):

• Defines, develops, and implements programs to ensure compliance and proper engagement with rules and regulations of the DOT, FMCSA, OSHA, local regulations and company standards.
• Identify and recommend improvements to health & safety systems to reduce costs, increase productivity and efficiency, and improve the overall safety culture.
• Monitor the development and revision of applicable health & safety regulations for potential impacts on locations and operations.
• Coordinate tracking of company health & safety performance metrics.
• Develop and implement an internal corporate health & safety audit process.
• Partners with location General Manager’s related to facility, security and equipment maintenance.
• Ensure all locations are in compliance with EPA environmental standards and regulations.
• Serves as System Matter Expert that adheres to and proposes best practices and plans for new regulations, policies, and best practices.
• Manages and leads the safety team meetings as well as develops and implements safety training and awareness programs.
• Provides forklift training to employees on a scheduled basis.
• Investigates, analyzes, and reports any injury or vehicle accidents or unsafe events and suggests remedial and preventative actions.
• Maintains DOT driver files & vehicle files as well as performs periodic audits to the DOT driver files to ensure compliance.
• Responsible for running and reviewing MVR reports to ensure compliance.
• Works with CFO & HR team to process vehicle accident insurance claims.
• Manages the administration of the Clearinghouse entries and reporting requirements.
• Administers the vendor certificate of insurance documents.