Operations Analyst

Workwear Outfitters has a strong legacy of building innovative and authentic market-right products and is a leading supplier of work apparel and footwear for diverse occupations in industries such as automotive, manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, government, food services, telecommunications, hospitality, and many more. Workwear Outfitters is based in Nashville, Tennessee with over $800 million in sales and we employ more than 5,800 people in facilities spanning the globe.

Brands under the Workwear Outfitters umbrella include Red Kap, Bulwark, Image Authority, Kodiak, Terra, Liberty , Work Authority, Workrite Fire Service, Chef Designs, and Horace Small. Workwear Outfitters is also the exclusive licensee for Dickies apparel in the B2B channel.

Our Purpose: "We champion and empower workers who make our world work better"

Major benefits include medical, vision and dental, Life and Disability coverage.

Other benefits included: 401K, Tuition reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Spending Accounts, and many others.

What You Will Do as an Operations Analyst: This role will have responsibility for analyzing the total supply pipeline (production & materials) and anticipating and resolving short- and long-term issues/ opportunities for specific brand product groups. This role will analyze metrics to drive improvements and create a detailed supply plan to ensure that customer requirements and service levels are achieved. Additionally, this role will be accountable for one or more of the following: production schedule/ capacity, vendor relationship management, and project ownership.

How You Will Make a Difference:

• Analyze supply plan to validate demand match with customer service requirements and urgently resolve constraints
• Analyze inventory performance metrics to drive improvements and alignment against brand inventory policies
• Analyze integrity of supply plans to ensure systemic and process driven support of supply strategies
• Create and communicate detailed executable supply plans (production plans, buy plans, materials requirements)
• Follow up and ensure execution of supply plan (PO, cut maintenance,) to manage service expectations
• Advocate timely customer fulfillment by resolving any product flow constraints
• Perform other duties as assigned while supporting the above key responsibilities.
• Partners with business to understand product strategies and align supply tactics accordingly through activities such as product line reviews, contract installation meetings, S&OP discussions
• Supports planning managers in the short to mid term horizon by maintaining capacity schedules, and/or managing vendor strategies, and/or maintaining project ownership that support business objectives
• Helps to identify and install process improvements and best practices within the planning department

Skills for Success:

• Bachelor Degree in related field of study or equivalent experience
• 3+ Years of related professional experience
• High proficiency in MS Excel and high learning agility for systems and tools (Logility, Kinaxis, PowerBI, SQL a plus)
• Strong knowledge of planning
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal)
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills
• Excellent collaboration skills
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to implement continuous process improvements and management of complex projects
• Demonstrated ability to lead larger \ more complex projects.
• Demonstrated effective ability to negotiate
• Overtime may be required
• Occasional travel is required