Merchandising Operations Specialist

About Weee!

Weee! is the largest and fastest-growing ethnic e-grocer in the United States, operating in one of the largest underserved categories in retail with affordable access to exciting ethnic food. By partnering with local suppliers, redesigning the value chain and leveraging social buying, Weee! is reshaping the grocery business entirely. You can read more about us on Business Insider, Reuters and TechCrunch.

Weee! is headquartered in Fremont, CA, and is currently available coast to coast with exceptional growth (5x YoY) across geographies, categories and ethnicities. We have raised $800M+ in funding to date from leading investors including Softbank Vision Funds, DST, Blackstone, Tiger Global, Lightspeed Ventures, Goodwater Capital, XVC and iFly. The opportunity now is to join a rocketship as we prepare for the next stage of growth, and an eventual public listing.

About the Role

The Merchandising Operations Specialist plays a key role in troubleshooting and resolving escalated issues within the Merchandising team throughout the procure-to-pay process. This includes managing escalated Purchase Order issue, and providing training and support in implementing new system functions or processes. Collaboration is essential, as this role will work cross-functionally with teams such as Merchandising, Food Safety, Merchandising Strategy, AP (Account Payable), and Warehouse Operations to streamline procure-to-pay lifecycle management, SKU lifecycle management, and enhance overall merchandising processes. The ideal candidate will possess both a detail-oriented approach and a strategic customer-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot any escalated Purchase Order issue tickets during receiving, such as overage issues and follow up on improvements for the root causes.

• Resolve any escalated payment issues after receiving, including investigating and resolving any escalated on-going PO payment issues, and assisting AP for aging PO review tasks and aging PO payment issues.

• Support system change and related execution of any attributes change of SKU lifecycle management, such as shelf life change or storage type change.

• Assist in executing vendor lifecycle management, including supporting vendor on-boarding, sponsor, promotion execution and calendar verification, and follow up overall vendor performance.

• Provide training, formulate SOP(standard operating procedure), and help implement any new system functions or processes.

• Work cross-functionally within the Merchandising, Food Safety, Strategy, AP (Account Payable), and Warehouse Operations teams to collaboratively execute procure-to-pay lifecycle management, SKU lifecycle management, and merchandising improvements.

• Conduct root cause analysis, analyze and manage key metrics, and propose improvements for related functions or processes.

• Perform other related duties as assigned, within the scope of practice

Qualifications

• 1+ year of experience in merchandising, supply chain, business analytics, or related e-commerce experience preferred

• Bachelor's Degree required

• Good at analyzing problems, identifying alternative solutions, and providing recommendations for improvement

• Experience in reporting and analyzing operational performance metrics with a data-driven approach

• Willingness to learn, be flexible and pivot across multiple tasks as necessary

• Have both a detailed-oriented and big picture customer-facing mindset

• Strong ownership of getting things done

• Excellent written and verbal skills

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance package, including medical, dental, and vision. PPO/HMO packages

• 401k, 4% company match

• Equity and Bonus

• Vacation and holiday time off

• Monthly mobile stipend

• Monthly Weee! Points credits

Compensation Range

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $66,560 - $70,000

• This role may be eligible to discretionary bonus, incentives and benefits

• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location

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