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Vendor Compliance Analyst

Pet Valu

Pet Valu

IT, Legal
Markham, ON, Canada
Posted on Feb 1, 2025
Location: Markham, Ontario

Job Description:

Job Overview

The Vendor Compliance Analyst will perform a variety of analytical tasks related to monitoring trends and determining adherence in our vendor performance. The role will also help to design the business process, develop reporting, and provide data-driven insights that are scalable. Once these are in place, the analysts will work together with the vendors and partnering teams in order to improve the vendors’ on-time and in-full fill rates, directly contributing to optimized inventory levels, an improved service level to our stores, and a reduction in lost sales.

Essential Duties

  • Be a subject matter expert and participate in the building out of the vendor compliance program
  • Develop reporting for vendor performance (adherence tracking)
  • Identify non-compliant operations, determine root cause, and assess if a business process change or vendor charge is required
  • Partner with vendors, merchants, and inventory planning teams to address process changes and improve vendor performance
  • Monitor metrics for trends in data and report on findings
  • Create a vendor dashboard incorporating metrics additional to compliance to support merchant negotiations
  • Continual evolution and improvement of the vendor compliance program as it matures

Experience & Education

  • Previous experience with retail product flow
  • Preferred 3+ years' experience in vendor compliance or vendor management in the retail sector
  • Previous experience in an analytical role
  • Experience with data analysis, KPI development, and report building
  • Experience implementing/managing EDI a plus

Competencies or Technical Skills

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Advanced MS Office skills
  • Able to influence across multiple internal teams to ensure actions are executed
  • Able to build and maintain good working relationships with vendors
  • Structured and creative thinking; ability to switch easily between big picture and small details
  • Ability to analyze and derive actionable insights from large data sets
  • Ability to manipulate said large data sets is a plus (SQL/DB2/MS Access)
  • Knowledge of VBA, SSMS, and Tableau is a plus