The Junior Buyer will play an important role in managing the purchasing process for designated categories of produce, ensuring that we maintain a consistent supply of high-quality produce at competitive prices.
Schedule:
Monday-Friday 6:00am-2:30pm or 7:00am-3:30pm
Pay Rate:
$23.00-$26.00/hr
JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Analyze, adjust and optimize product and component inventory levels and turns to coincide with customer demand, lead time changes, and movement forecasts.
- Proactively seek cost reduction opportunities with supplier base on the with company goals.
- Coordinate quality issues with suppliers as required and effectively manage returns to supplier.
- Proactively and routinely drives spend analysis activities, identifying strategic sourcing opportunities within assigned commodities in conjunction with supply chain initiatives.
- Understands and utilize strategic sourcing processes to select suppliers based on the best combination of cost, capability, quality, reliability and delivery of supplier to strict measurements and controls.
- Remains current on economic, industrial and other trends that affect market and prices.
- Perform problem-solving and troubleshooting when problems arise purchase orders; resolve receipt and invoice discrepancies and escalate supplier management issues to department heads in a timely manner.
- Create and manage purchase orders, request for quotes and request for proposals including scope of work, technical documents, pricing, procedures, cost, deliverables, and key milestones.
- Works closely with corporate/store personnel ensure to avoid any inventory and invoice discrepancies.
Requirements
- Minimum of 2-4 years relevant work experience in manufacturing industry
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and Word
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, statistical analysis, time management, human relations, and organizational skills.
- Candidate will need to possess strong organizational, analytical, and motivational skills along with an ability to thrive in a fast-paced, metrics-driven, performance-based environment with stretch goals.
- Qualified candidates will have experience in offshore sourcing, negotiating, and purchasing.
- Bilingual Spanish is preferred but not required.