La-Z-Boy Incorporated

Supply Chain

• Collaborate with business leaders to identify and evaluate strategic initiatives
• Translate strategic objectives into detailed process designs, operational requirements, and implementation roadmaps
• Identify risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs; recommend mitigation strategies and escalate as appropriate
• Analyze end‑to‑end supply chain processes to identify inefficiencies, constraints, and opportunities for cost, service, and quality improvement
• Design, refine, and implement standardized processes across distribution, logistics, and manufacturing interfaces
• Support development and deployment of KPI frameworks tied to critical value drivers and operational risk
• Partner with IT and Data & Analytics teams to define business requirements and support enhancements to supply chain systems that are aligned with future technology capabilities
• Conduct scenario analysis and modeling to support strategic planning and business case development
• Collaborate with Logistics, Distribution Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and IT leaders to align initiatives and ensure integrated execution
• Promote a culture of data‑driven decision‑making, accountability, and continuous improvement across the supply chain organization
• Support leadership by providing analysis and recommendation of internal resource alignment to support the Supply Chain organization vision and deliver desired business outcomes
• Support the development of strategic business cases by working with cross-functional teams outlining business opportunities, rationale, and operating plans to capture the opportunity
• Continually look for ways to transform our business using talent, data, processes, and technology as vehicles for value creation

Lead Supply Chain Strategy Analyst

Manager

• Provide guidance, training, and support to sales teams to improve performance
• Responsible for leading and supervising the entire employee life cycle
• Enhance employee engagement and nurture a positive workplace culture
• Achieve or surpass store and annual operating benchmarks
• Model the highest standards for surpassing customer expectations

Store Manager

• Provide guidance, training, and support to sales teams to improve sales techniques, strategies, and overall performance
• Responsible for leading and supervising the entire employee life cycle, including recruitment selection, training, and development and succession planning by cultivating and maintaining a top-performing team
• Enhance employee engagement and nurture a positive workplace culture and build effective teams
• Achieve or surpass store and annual operating benchmarks
• Evaluate team performance, objectives, and behaviors to determine effectiveness
• Model the highest standards for surpassing customer expectations
• Learn, model and teach established sales and design processes
• Sustain store profitability by maintaining profit and loss statements, financial metrics, and margins
• Model and teach product knowledge
• Champion the company’s brand strategy and first-in-class customer experience
• Align merchandising, pricing and product flow to company standards
• Uphold brand visual standards in the store by ensuring cleanliness in employee and customer areas
• Ensure proper execution of all existing and new systems and administrative procedures
• Collaborate with support teams to ensure flawless execution of operational excellence
• Plan and execute sales promotion and events along with projects as needed for the improvement of the market and company

• Responsible for Quality Management Systems across the region to provide 'World Class' Quality products, processes, and systems
• Drive timely corrective action for recurring product failures, both internal and external
• Establish strategic plans, implementing and follow-up of policies and procedures
• Set department objectives/KPIs, measure and follow up ongoing performance of direct reports
• Manage a team at a single large production volume plant
• Oversee the supplier quality management and development programs
• Complete one-on-one meetings with direct reports and skip level with indirect reports
• Implementation of the recognition program for the Quality team
• Implement all relevant policies and procedures described in the Quality Operation System (QOS/ TranZform)
• Perform routine analysis of total COQ/COF, both internal and external
• Facilitate interpretation of the budget and impact of countermeasures
• Monitor and update the weekly score card and submit detailed reports to appropriate executives
• Inputs and holds responsibility for Quality budgets related with manpower and efficiency (OT control)
• Provides multiple levels of training for all department team members
• Following the completion of corrective actions, monitor the affected product field failure trend data
• Coordinate the Tier 3 meetings for Quality KPI review
• Responsible for internal audits, external audits, and independent product audit resources

Senior Plant Quality Manager

Sales

• Responsible for profit and loss for a group of Retail stores
• Leads and coaches a team of store managers
• Implements and oversees company initiatives to drive sales and metric growth
• Responsible for hiring and firing in the market
• Routinely visits stores to ensure they meet company standards

Regional Market Sales Manager – Gulf Coast

• Manages demand forecast for subsection of La-Z-Boy business
• Generates statistical forecasts weekly based on Point-of-Sale data
• Incorporates promotional and merchandising plans
• Designs and standardizes processes in accordance with industry best practices
• Adjusts forecasts based on marketing intelligence and promotional plans
• Identifies trends and adjusts
• Analyzes outliers, following up with Retail Sales, Marketing, and Merchandising to understand root causes
• Manages two large Retail Merchandising changes each year creating forecast that integrates in cannibalization of existing products, discontinuations, and new product offerings
• Provides unconstrained demand plan to inventory team that is used to generate weekly replenishment orders
• Collaborates on generating the inventory replenishment plan with the inventory team
• Measures forecast error using standard MAPE, APE, and bias
• Uses these error calculations to determine potential steps for improving and prioritizing intel to most critical for forecast accuracy
• Understands financial impacts of forecast errors and is able to quantify errors for senior leadership
• Acts as the liaison between Retail planning and Operations teams
• Communicates demand plans with the broader operations team
• Understands impacts of Retail Merchandising plans on manufacturing plants and purchasing teams
• Maintains master data for planning parameters within the system
• Understands how the various control flags for each item effect forecasting and replenishment planning
• Troubleshoots technical issues with IT department

Senior Demand Planner

Payroll

• Process payroll for Retail, Factory, Administration and Executives pay groups as assigned on a weekly, bi-weekly and/or monthly pay cycle using Workday and Kronos systems
• Enter payroll changes and adjustments as needed for an accurate payroll
• Process special compensation such as bonuses, stock options, PCRP, dividends, etc.
• Provide support to assigned pay groups as it relates to questions regarding amounts paid to employees
• Entry of Incentive Pay (IP) timecards, ensure accuracy, reasonableness and consistency for Factory Pay, if applicable
• Understand and process creditor garnishments, child support and other withholding orders and off cycle payments
• Balance wage payments and taxes
• Responsible for incoming and outgoing interfaces and files, including but not limited to UKG, Workday, Wells Fargo and ADP
• Gather and analyze information and data to problem solve
• Organized with excellent time management skills to produce quality work

Payroll Specialist I

Business Intelligence Analyst

• Provides analysis and reporting that supports leadership decision making
• Leads projects that involve data gathering, business intelligence, report writing and execution
• Be responsible for data administration and proficient with data management and analytical tools
• Communicate recommendations derived from analysis with functional and senior leadership teams to drive change management initiatives
• Conduct financial and strategic analysis leading to improved decision making, including ad-hoc analysis requests, developing new approaches to analysis, and creation of new reports utilizing new mechanisms
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert with monthly and annual planning processes, maintaining updates on annual plan progress and report results
• Present analytical findings to business leadership
• Act as a liaison with corporate financial departments for continuous review of financial impacts to business units to ensure integrity and consistency
• Leads strategic projects that may involve cross-functional teams or engage with external vendors/suppliers
• Generate and distribute analytical data via dashboards used in Senior management meetings and reviews
• Develop new reporting solutions as needed
• Educate team members on reports and reporting tools
• Gather internal and external information to inform the strategic planning process
• Analyzes new business opportunities or impacts by gathering necessary data and building financial models
• Develop reporting tools to support system projects, enhancements, and rollouts when new systems are implemented

Business Intelligence Specialist III

• Responsible for the profit and loss of a group of Retail stores with an annual revenue of $25-55 million
• Leads a team of store managers, coaching and developing them to ensure they uphold the leadership attributes and values of the company
• Implements and oversees all company initiatives and drives sales and metric growth
• In charge of all hiring and firing within the market and is responsible for reaching appropriate staffing levels in each store
• Routinely visits stores in the market to ensure they are meeting company standards