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The Warehouse SC Network Planning Specialist creates, coordinates, and maintains the diligence plan to assess and integrate Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), new multi-market customers, and customer mapping plays into the US Foods supply chain, with a specific focus on warehouse capacity, infrastructure, slotting, and order picking. They partner with center planning, field operations, Industrial Engineering, Facilities/Construction, and other key teams to assess warehouse capacity, storage, and racking and to design and optimize US Foods warehouses. They provide analysis of costs and implementation impacts to support M&A diligence and other project planning, participating in projects from conception through integration.

• Supports M&A diligence and integration, new business onboarding and customer mapping processes, greenfield/brownfield projects, automation, and business continuity planning, recommending the most safe and cost-effective warehousing solutions and providing analytical support from planning to execution.
• Runs analytical tools and prepares what-if scenario analysis for warehouse capacity and outbound processes, with evaluation of the impacts to network economics and warehouse capacity and productivity metrics.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in warehousing for all Network Planning engagements.
• Partners with the Warehouse Excellence (Industrial Engineering) and Facilities/Construction teams to assess risk, improve storage capacity, and develop warehousing solutions that support US Foods' overall business and Supply Chain strategy.
• Prepares model inputs using established data sets and tools, and by developing ad-hoc analysis to meet individual model requirements.
• Monitors and analyzes warehouse capacity, outbound production, and business forecasts to ensure valid modeling parameters and apply them to project assessments.
• Creates model documentation, packages the business case, and prepares presentation content for communicating with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinates multi-functional groups of SMEs to develop solutions to specific distribution problems and what-if scenarios, and to ensure projects deliverables are on-track and on budget.
• Analyzes business and technical data from the WMS (Warehouse Management System), slotting, and work standards environments, and contextualizes it with Network Planning inputs and business forecasts.
• Supports established workflows within Commercial Partnerships, such as new business onboarding, customer mapping, project intake, etc.
• Completes on-site visits and provides investment recommendations for potential acquisition sites, existing sites, and new expansion sites.
• Other duties as assigned by manager.

• Internal: Network Planning, M&A, Supply Chain Excellence/Engineering, Real Estate & Construction, Automation and Processes Planning, Integration, Continuous Improvement, Market/Region Leaders and Staff, Finance
• External: None.

• 5 years of experience designing or optimizing physical space, racking/slotting, and flows for warehouses, distribution centers, or fulfillment centers.
• Working knowledge of warehouse preferred work methods and production measurements.
• Experience creating content for presenting financial impact statements to senior leaders.
• Strong proficiency in Warehouse Management, slotting, or work standards software
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel.
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD or similar design software.
• Project management skills, including developing timelines, creating presentation artifacts, and coordinating multiple partners and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated analytical skills using and a fact- and- data-based approach.
• Experience with Continuous Improvement methodologies, a firm understanding of Lean principles, process flow, and minimal constraint design principles.
• High level of interpersonal skills.
• Up to 25% travel.

• Work experience designing and implementing a new build or full redesign of a warehouse in the cold chain or food distribution industry.
• Work experience with a merger or acquisition.
• Experience directly managing projects.
• Proficient with Red Prairie, Blue Yonder, and/or SAP.
• Experience interfacing with OSHA or local safety regulators.
• Experience with warehouse automation such as ASRS, conveyor systems, automatic palletizer technologies.
• Experience using advanced data and statistics tools such as Alteryx and Minitab and writing queries using SQL.
• Experience in the food distribution industry.
• Experience working with union employees.

• Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, supply chain, business, math, or related field.
• Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering preferred.

• Must be able to perform the following physical activities for described length of time: