Commodity Specialist

Acxion•Omaha, NE

5h•Onsite

About The Position

The primary purpose of the Commodity Specialist is to monitor our manufacturers’ commodity diversions and achieve at least an 85-90% drawdown of the commodity pounds that were diverted per manufacturer in each state.

Requirements

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
Strong analytical and organizational skills.
Excellent attention to detail/accuracy and multi-tasking skills.
Maintain high-level of professionalism and ability to maintain integrity and confidentiality.
High school graduate or equivalent.
Experience with Microsoft Office including Word, Excel & Outlook.
Highly concentrated mental and visual alertness.
A major portion of day is spent sitting and talking.
Frequent up/down motion to perform duties.
Moderate to heavy typing, calculating or otherwise working with fingers.
Visual acuity.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of USDA Commodity/FNS helpful

Responsibilities

Access the commodity tracking systems (currently K-12 and Processor Link) on a regular basis per manufacturer, per state and monitor drawdowns of balances.
Verify the correct distributor and contact information is listed for each Recipient Agency on these websites.
Contact any Recipient Agency who is not within a range of par on drawdown percentage or has no drawdown.
Provide SEPDS, commodity order forms, commodity calculators and to Recipient Agencies as requested or as needed.
Establish and maintain good working relationships with commodity contacts at the manufacturers, distributors and at the state level.
Establish and maintain good working relationships and open communications with the Education Specialists regarding their accounts.
Provide monthly recap reports to the K12 Specialists with drawdown balances per manufacturer in each state.
Provide any commodity reporting or information when requested from manufacturers.
Ensure commodity pounds/dollars are available for order fulfillment.
Enter/process commodity orders as needed/required.
Consolidate orders to make truckload shipments while maintaining requested delivery weeks/months to many different shipping locations.
Provide manufacturer commodity information to state RA’s early in their diversion process.
Establish and maintain an updated contact list of RA’s per state.