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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company is a recognized leader in confections with a wide range of product offerings including gum, mints, hard and chewy candies, lollipops, and chocolate. The company has operations in more than 40 countries and distributes its world-famous brands in more than 180 countries. Three of these brands - Juicy Fruit®, Wrigley's Spearmint®, and Altoids® - have heritages stretching back more than a century. Other well-loved brands include Orbit®, Extra®, Starburst®, Doublemint®, Skittles®, Freedent®, Airwaves®, Life Savers®, Eclipse®, and Winterfresh®. Wrigley is headquartered in Chicago, Ill., and operates as a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated, a private, family-owned company founded in 1911. Mars, Incorporated is one of the world's largest food companies, generating global revenues of $30 billion annually and producing some of the world's leading brands in six segments that include Chocolate, Drinks, Food, Petcare, Symbioscience and Wrigley.

•   Responsible for driving team level improvement across key metrics:
• Perfect order, forecast accuracy, weeks inventory coverage, DC service level and metric contained in select customer scorecards
• Order accuracy, including processes to prevent order entry errors, duplicate orders & order miss-shipments
• Drive improvement in the integrity of customer data (price, weight, case specification to reduce manual order processing intervention and deduction activity
• Assessment, training and development related to VMI (forecasting, scorecarding, IBM system use/maintenance), Order Management (SAP, EDI, BE), and general business knowledge & acumen
• Co-design and implement specific training/development needs of CSAM's and gain agreement with Customer Support Manager on timing/ method & delivery of training
• Responsible to drive ongoing improvement in the effectiveness and efficiency of all order management/VMI activities and processes
• Provide resource for order management or VMI activities as required

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or Logistics preferred
• 2 - 5 years finance, accounting, sales or general business experience required
• Experience with VMI is required
• SAP
• Strong Microsoft Excel Skill
• Microsoft Access Database skills a plus
• PowerPoint
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong written/oral communication skills
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills and the ability to multi-task
• Proven ability to effectively transfer knowledge to drive performance improvement
• Attention to detail and high sensitivity to deadlines