Feed Procurement Specialist

5 days ago

Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, United States Christensen Farms Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Feed Procurement Specialist to join our team at Christensen Farms. As a key member of our Feed Buying team, you will be responsible for negotiating, purchasing, and scheduling logistics of ingredients for all our feed mill locations daily.

Key Responsibilities
  • Purchasing:
    • Negotiate best price and terms with suppliers on all ingredients and freight.
    • Direct responsibility for purchasing corn, soybean meal, fats, distillers grains, bakery, and soybean hulls and indirect responsibility for purchasing non-commodity ingredients for our feed mill locations.
    • Coordinate with location support staff and determine appropriate level of local purchasing and logistics support.
    • Monitor toll ingredient pricing and challenge them on cost, support them to lower cost, or merchandise in at their price at a profit.
    • Communicate, coordinate, and/or administer purchases according to defined purchase order and accounting processes.
    • Develop value-added relationships with key suppliers.
    • Identify and supervise the execution of supplier contracts.
    • Identify new suppliers for existing ingredients.
    • Conduct FOB vs. delivered analysis to reduce cost of delivered ingredients.
    • Identify and schedule truck logistics in coordination with local plant staff.
    • Update ingredient purchasing specifications in coordination with plant and nutrition staff to ensure defined ingredient quality.
    • Monitor quality control claims on ingredients.
  • Relative Value Merchandising/Formulation:
    • Ensure accurate weekly market ingredient price updates. Coordinate with staff to execute updates weekly.
    • Leadership in relative value merchandising and effectiveness.
    • Understand and use relative value spreads between ingredients to maintain existing ingredient relative values. Forward plan ingredient requirements based on forward relative values.
    • Identify and execute on reformulation and savings opportunities to maintain best cost formulas.
    • Identify new ingredient opportunities and their relative value.
    • Ensure up-to-date ingredient nutrient profiles on all ingredients.
  • General:
    • Keep up to date on research trials conducted internally and participate in periodic research update meetings.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferred.
  • At least 2 years' experience in ingredient purchasing and logistics in the feed industry, agricultural field preferred.
  • Must have prior experience and knowledge of the feed industry, ingredient purchasing and logistics, relative value merchandising, and formulation.
  • Expertise in both technical and fundamental principles and practices of grain merchandising.
  • Intermediate level Microsoft Excel skill is required.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong negotiation and analytical skills.
  • Requires individual initiative and competitive drive.
  • Ability to apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Results-focused individual that thrives on organizational progress.
  • Ability to produce results in a fast-paced environment.
Equal Opportunity Employer

Christensen Farms is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to select the most qualified person for each position in the organization. No employee of CF will discriminate against any applicant for employment or a fellow employee because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, citizenship status, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status, or any other prohibited basis under applicable local, state, or federal law.

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