Manager, Customer Supply Chain
Company: KeHE
Category: Professional Services
Naperville
Type: Full Time
KeHE seeks a Customer Supply Chain Manager to join their team. The Customer Supply Chain Manager serves as a critical link between KeHE and its retail partners, driving collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment strategies to ensure optimal product availability and supply chain performance. This role is responsible for aligning internal and external stakeholders around shared goals, leveraging data-driven insights to improve forecast accuracy, reduce inventory inefficiencies, and enhance customer service levels.
Pay Range: $97,350.00/Yr. – $142,659.00/Yr. 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:
- Facilitate joint business planning sessions with retailers and other partners – up to and including Director level- to align forecasts, resolve discrepancies, and agree on replenishment strategies.
- Lead weekly customer meetings to identify performance gaps, uncover opportunities, and present actionable recommendations.
- Track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to forecast accuracy, in-stock levels, inventory turns, spoilage and customer fill rates.
- Monitor inventory levels and collaborate on strategies to minimize excess inventory, prevent stockouts, and meet service level targets for assigned categories.
- Serve as a point of contact, coordinating closely with internal teams (account team, purchasing, demand planning and transportation) and external stakeholders to drive collaboration and resolve issues.
- Implement process changes to enhance supply chain efficiency and achieve best practices in customer replenishment and forecasting.
- Own internal communication with key stakeholders to call out exceptions in forecast, flag risks, and provide actionable recommendations.
- Developing solutions that integrate the assigned customer’s and KeHE supply chain processes.
- Deeply understand customer tools and workflows to identify performance improvement opportunities and tailor insights accordingly.
- Conduct root cause analysis and provide context-driven process improvement suggestions to internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage promotional demand planning and ensure readiness and flawless execution.
- Leverage internal and external data sources to detect shifts in item-level sales trends and initiate proactive supply chain responses.



