Supply Chain Manager

Regal Cinemas - Corporate
Knoxville, TN 37920, USA

The Supply Chain Manager is responsible for supporting a multi-year supply chain strategy by leading the development of enterprise demand and supply planning, inventory strategy, and distribution governance across food, beverage, disposables, kitchen equipment, and merchandise. This role will own and create the company‑wide rolling demand and supply forecast, inventory strategy, distributor performance management, and pricing governance. The position will play a critical role in building and formalizing capabilities as the function grows.

Critical to success is ensuring high service levels and distribution network optimization while planning for scalability as volumes, promotions, and capital investments increase. The Supply Chain Manager must have strong analytical capability, operational expertise, and cross‑functional collaboration skills to manage complexity while proactively troubleshooting issues as they arise.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Lead distribution, logistics, and inventory strategy across food, beverage, disposables, kitchen equipment, and merchandise to ensure consistent product availability while balancing cost impacts.
• Build and continuously improve medium to long‑range demand and supply planning processes, translating program calendars, activations, and promotions into forward‑looking forecasts and inventory strategies, while ensuring near‑term planning and execution is managed by team members.
• Own and maintain a company‑wide rolling demand and supply forecast, consolidating inputs from Procurement, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Operations, and Finance to support 6‑month planning horizons, with a roadmap to extend to 12 months.
• Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to lead the demand and supply plan, including seasonality modeling, program readiness, and forward‑looking risk identification across the planning horizon.
• Lead, coach, and develop the supply chain planning and distribution team, setting standards, methodologies, and decision frameworks, while ensuring the team executes against defined plans and short‑term supply needs.
• Manage distributor relationships and performance, leading execution reviews, service‑level/KPI tracking, and issue resolution to ensure distribution partners meet operational and commercial expectations.
• Partner closely with Procurement Managers to align supplier capabilities, sourcing decisions, and rollout strategies with optimal distribution and inventory solutions.
• Oversee pricing set up, governance, and compliance across systems, ensuring items are set up accurately for the correct time periods and validated through routine pricing audits.
• Support theater operations by proactively identifying service risks, capacity constraints, and execution gaps, coordinating corrective actions with distributors, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance scalability, reduce reactive problem‑solving, and improve service, cost, and timeline performance.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Professional

Skills:

• Demonstrated experience leading distribution, inventory management, and supply chain execution, with experience in multi‑unit retail or food service environments preferred.
• Experience establishing and operating demand and supply planning processes, including forecasting, allocation, replenishment, and inventory optimization.
• Strong understanding of distributor operations, logistics networks, and service‑level management.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data, assess risks, and develop practical, executable solutions.
• Project management experience with the ability to manage multiple initiatives, timelines, and priorities simultaneously.
• Effective…