Associate Buyer - Anchorage

Charlie's Produce•Anchorage, AK

16d•Onsite

About The Position

Charlie's Produce is seeking an Associate Buyer to provide administrative support to procurement staff. This role involves confirming purchase orders, ensuring receiving accuracies and on-time deliveries, managing daily inventory adjustments, and pulling key reports for the department. The Associate Buyer will be responsible for understanding the purchasing cycle for each item, communicating potential inventory issues, prorates, and cost changes to the Procurement Manager and Sales team, and supporting logistical procedures. This position also involves working with vendors to resolve issues related to freight, product damage, quality, or quantity discrepancies, and assisting with related claims. Vendor account responsibilities may be assigned, including adhering to onboarding requirements, maintaining inventory levels, and monitoring vendor performance. All employees are responsible for food safety and must report any compromises. The role also includes managing costs according to program stipulations, such as contract pricing and off-invoice price cycles, and achieving Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to fill rate, variance management, inbound freight, PO accuracy, and contract compliance.

Requirements

High School preferred
Purchasing experience desired but not required
Computer competency, including Excel, Word, & Outlook as well as 10 Key
Effective interpersonal skills.
Able to multi-task and work well under pressure.
Be able to set priorities, meet deadlines, and able to accomplish team objectives.
Strong math & writing skills required to quickly multiply & add cases/pallets & calculate product cost, market and margin.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Power Enterprise a plus

Responsibilities

Provides administrative support to procurement staff.
Confirms purchase orders and passing for receiving accuracies and on-time deliveries, daily inventory adjustments and pulling key reports for the department.
Knows relevant purchasing cycle for each item purchased.
Timely communication of potential inventory issues, prorates, and cost changes to Procurement Manager and Sales.
Support established logistical procedures to facilitate product arrival and working with vendors to resolve freight damage, product damage/quality issues or discrepancies in quantities.
Assist with claims related to these findings.
Vender account responsibilities if assigned, such as adhere to approved supplier requirements in onboarding and continuing of vendors, maintain appropriate inventory levels, monitors vendor performance.
Manage costs according to program stipulations and best practices in such as escalated or deescalated contract pricing, off invoice price cycles or ads.
Understand and achieve KPIs in fill rate, variance management, proper inbound freight maintenance, PO accuracy, contract compliance, and other KPIs assigned by your manager.
Other tasks and special projects as assigned by the Procurement Manager.