Feed Procurement Specialist

3 days ago


New Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States Country View Family Farms Full time
Job Description

As a key member of the Country View Family Farms team, the Feed Procurement Specialist will play a vital role in supporting our feed milling operations across PA, IN, and NC. Reporting directly to the Procurement Director, this individual will take a hands-on leadership approach, overseeing grain and ingredient purchasing, transportation logistics, quality assurance, and purchasing data management.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Cost Savings:
    • Expand and manage direct grain sourcing from local producers.
    • Understand relative value of alternative ingredients and price relationship to major ingredients to guide purchasing decisions.
    • Solicit vendors for quarterly amino acids, and vitamin and trace mineral premix bids, select winning bids, and communicate with all feed mills of premix source changes.
    • Evaluation of rail vs. truck freight spreads for major commodities deliveries.
    • Analyze and understand CBOT / CME ingredient market technical conditions and basic commodities fundamentals, as well as local basis conditions for making purchasing decisions.
    • Secure claims from soybean meal processors when soybean meal protein levels are below guaranteed minimums.
    • Collecting ingredient market information/market intelligence from various sources (i.e. rail, grain farmers, ingredient vendors, export/global news, local basis).
    • Analysis of toll mill ingredient pricing and benchmarking CVFF toll mill ingredient pricing to market prices and competitive data analysis.
  • Purchasing and Inventory Management:
    • Create and manage purchase contracts in IT ERP system for grain and ingredients.
    • Overseeing and managing the IT ERP systems that track ingredient shipments, inventories, and the supply of goods to meet all demands.
    • Monitor inventory levels to place appropriate orders for the demands of production.
    • Maintain current and historical cost data for all ingredient purchased items.
    • Use a IT ERP ordering system for requisition and Purchase order creation to order all ingredients to stock the feed mills and bagged warehouses.
    • Monitor and resolve purchasing issues or discrepancies and complete all required reports.
    • Complete all purchase orders, organizing, and confirming delivery of goods and services.
  • Vendor Management:
    • Maintain Vendor contact list (multiple levels of each vendor organization - CSR, Sales Rep, VP of Sales, President, Plant production Manager, other).
    • Develop and maintain grain origination from large grain producers to provide a local market with added value and a secure supply for CVFF.
    • Develop and maintain grain origination from selected CVFF production partners.
    • Build and maintaining long-term relationships with all vendors and key suppliers.
  • Communication:
    • Prepare all required procurement reports.
    • Notify the management team immediately with any purchasing issues or discrepancies that affect the production system for the current day/week.
    • Communication with feed milling, feed desk, production, and accounting/ finance personnel.
  • Team CVFF:
    • Participate in weekly Level 10 department meeting.
    • Performance Excellence participation and developmental programs as required.
    • Periodically attend production and accounting meetings.
    • Participate in Monthly Area leadership meetings as requested.


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