Position Title:Buyer (Dairy Components - Ingredients – Co-Packed)
Working closely with plant operations, this position is responsible for providing purchasing support to ensure that the plant locations are able to identify, develop and maximize relationships with Suppliers who primarily provide supplies for our manufacturing locations. Responsible for achieving the budget objectives and the cost savings program planned with the team . This positions main focus is to ensure that systems and procedures, related to purchasing, are coordinated in order to have as much flexibility as possible regarding production between plant locations and reducing the number of inventoried items by making more items common to all plants.
Purchase Categories = items for Cheese Making and Co-Packed
All Ingredient Categories
Cheeses
Milk Components (NFDM-WPC34%-Starter -etc...)
Co-Packed Products
Duties and Responsibilitiesinclude the following. Other duties may be assigned.
· Activities will include preparing bid proposals, negotiating all pricing contracts, analyzing and summarizing all responses and executing final contracts with Suppliers.
· Assist all Plant Release Agents in day-to-day procuring practices and maintaining accurate inventory levels. Could provide training for all release agents. Will evaluate and ensure that all plants are following proper purchasing procedures. Will also be responsible for communicating changes in purchasing policies and procedures. Will send Pricing Grid to plant after purchasing approval.
· Assist Procurement Agents at all locations with any issues relating to supplying. This encompasses Suppliers, purchases and policies.
· Develops and installs procedures to enable the plant locations to have consistent practices to enable the locations to consolidate purchases with our suppliers for maximum advantage of available volume discounts.
· Will be responsible to implement a Yearly Savings Program, defined together with the Purchasing Director. Monthly follow up reporting, with comments, must be done and sent to the Purchasing Director within specified timeframe.
· Will be responsible to implement pricing and % inflation for elaborating Budget for following year (July- August)
· Activities will include sourcing and qualifying Suppliers. This will include site visits. Set-up procedures for evaluating potential suppliers.
· Activities will include compiling, organizing and maintaining all detailed Supplier information used to evaluate new and existing Suppliers.
· Responsible for the research and compiling of all purchasing information including price history, quality, and service etc. for bid proposals.
· Analyzes market and delivery conditions to determine present and future material availability and/or pricing. Prepares market analysis reports with recommendations regarding alternatives.
· Will continually assess Suppliers to ensure that our company receives competitive pricing, quality, and service.
· Will be responsible to provide to Assistant Administrative all data (#resource , pricing quantity) in order to update PRISM .
· Point of contact for Corporate purchasing any requests, changes, and new products developments. Responsible for schedule of completion dates of the process in question for Corporate Purchasing.
· Will work with all Corporate Purchasing Employees to make sure that Purchasing goals are achieved . Will also be in contact with the Global Corporate Purchasing Department in order to exchange and to get information with world wide contracts to be applied in US for globalization with international companies.
Education and/or ExperienceIdeally incumbent will possess a minimum of a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration or Sciences with a concentration in Purchasing plus 8+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
