Purchasing Manager
2 days ago
This role is responsible for overseeing all ingredient and packaging purchasing activities for manufacturing, including accountability for costing, supply chains, inventory, contracts, and supplier performance.
Key Responsibilities- Provide assistance to all Lunds & Byerlys team members, modeling company customer service standards at all times.
- Hire, train, and develop team members, including performance evaluations, performance management, and general supervision.
- Coach, mentor, and lead direct reports to accomplish goals of the location plan and personal goals for each team member.
- Develop and centrally manage the procurement of goods and materials.
- Establish standard costs for all ingredients and packaging, maintaining purchase price variances within established guidelines.
- Manage all procurement activities required to support the manufacturing facilities, including the joint usage of like products between facilities.
- Establish and ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place to support procurement and order management.
- Manage and assess the needs of all internal customers through formal and informal communications, specifically managing out-of-stock updates from vendors to reduce sales loss.
- Negotiate buying contracts resulting in the lowest cost of goods for materials and supplies while maintaining established inventories.
- Source suppliers, negotiate buying agreements, and establish order quantities, shipping arrangements, and terms as appropriate.
- Ensure external and internal compliance with buying agreements by monitoring product pricing.
- Review purchase agreements and supplier performance on a continual basis with category manager and advise internal customers of pricing shifts and product availability.
- Review financial performance reports and analyze and interpret data to identify opportunities to obtain cost savings objectives through efficient planning of resources.
- Assist with the annual budget.
- Ensure shrink is controlled and documented.
- Manage monthly inventory process from start to finish.
- Maintain compliance with USDA, FDA, OSHA, AIB, and all other regulatory agencies while complying with good manufacturing practices.
- Ensure compliance with HACCP plan, which includes housekeeping and record-keeping practices.
- Education: Undergraduate degree in management, general business, logistics, or equivalent experience.
- Licensing Required: Food safety, HACCP, and forklift certifications; APICS certification; First Aid, CPR preferred.
- Experience: Four or more years' supervisory experience of 5 or more employees; preferably in a manufacturing setting; food manufacturing, purchasing, or buying experience.
- LFHI Competencies expected of all employees include: action-oriented, communicates effectively, customer-focused, and instills trust.
- Other required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: A service-oriented individual with a high energy, positive, and friendly demeanor; ability to respond to continually changing priorities and coordinate multiple projects; computer skills (Outlook, Excel, Word); excellent customer service, interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills; ability to delegate and follow through; ability to provide motivation and leadership; ability to think and plan strategically as well as tactically communicate at all levels of the company; continuously observe and evaluate operations to identify problems and/or opportunities for improvement; negotiation skills; project management skills; sound judgment and decision-making abilities; ability to read, write, speak, and comprehend English.
Equipment Used: Office Equipment (this may include computer, phone, printer, scanner, copier, and fax machine); forklift; pallet jack (manual or electric).
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