Vmi Supervisor
Listed on 2026-03-05
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Business
Business Development, Business Management, Business Analyst
VMI SUPERVISOR
Date: Mar 2, 2026
Location: TAMPA, Florida, US, 33607
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BASIC FUNCTION(Primary Purpose):The Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) supervisorwillcoordinatedirectly
VMI Analysts, and work with Sales Leadership, Sales Representatives, and Information Technology (IT) support teams to implement theVMIvalue proposition for customers. The VMISupervisoracts asan SMEexpert regarding VMI andidentifiesopportunities that align to the Commercial strategy.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Support inaligningthe VMI roadmap and growth strategy to the overall service strategy across the segments.
Proactively analyze results compared to forecasted volumes, make recommendations for changes or improvements to VMI program to increase sales or program effectiveness.
Assistin aligning customer forecast, shipment performance, backloglevelandinventoryconsumptionto create an efficient and sufficient supply to meet customer expectations.
Track andmonitorteam KPIs.
Collaborates with the Sales to ensure service for VMI productsareunderstood and prioritized accordingly withinoverallorder backlog.
Acts as the process expert for failures andprovideoverall guidance to the team on how to handle challenges. Act asliaisonbetween business and ITfor issues related to VMI program. Work closely with Forecast Managers,Fulfillment and schedulers to ensure that inventory and production reservations for VMI products are accurate,determining the cause of discrepancies and adjusting where necessary. Provide guidance to the VMI analystsregardingroutine management opportunities for the customers.
Guide the team on proactive routines into their day-to-day processes.
Facilitate changes requested bybusinessor customers for existing supply programs.
Analyze new VMI program proposals for qualifications and make recommendations to sales when reviewing potential customer targets for growth.
Facilitate communication about VMIprogram tosales for prospective customers. Establish expectations with the customer and sales when reinforcing what alignment is needed to ensurea mutual success.
This role will supervise a team of VMI analysts forthe day-to-day VMI program management.
This position willoperateas an extension of sales leadership to support and execute the roadmap to grow Gerdau’s VMI program with customers across the core segments.
This role collaborates with the sales team toidentifyopportunities and work with sales to close/onboard new customers to the VMI service. Position will alsobe responsible for planning and coordinating on-boarding,testing and validation of new EDI/VMI customers. Maintain support for accompanying EDI transmissions, with local team and IT.
Thisscopeis across the existing 14 Customers,at >150,000 tons of shipments(annually) via~5,000 active SKU/Ship-to combinations,within the VMI program and extends to new customers that may be added.
Supervisory Responsibilities & Reporting Structure :Supervises who (level and number): VMIAnalysts (3-5)
Reports to:
Sales Process Manager
Minimum2or more years of Sales,Marketing,Data Analytics,Fulfillment, and/or Supply Chain experience and a four-year degree from an accredited college or university (or equivalentadditionalexperience)
Preferred experience in the following industries (not required):Minimal travel is required–estimated at 2 to4overnightsannually
Use of predictive tools will berequiredin addition toleveragingthe existing data available in SAP/SEP/eGerdau, Marketing and external data sources, and Power BI visualizations.
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