Purchasing Associate Manager

La Madeleine De Corps-posted 9 months ago

Full-time • Mid Level

Onsite • Dallas, TX

Food Services and Drinking Places

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As a Purchasing Associate Manager at Le Duff America (LDA), you will have the opportunity to become a part of a team that supports accounting for over 30 corporately owned and 60 franchised la Madeleine French Bakery & Café locations and other LDA concepts. While this is not a remote position, we do offer hybrid schedules. This position is in the LDA corporate office in Dallas, TX.

Use project management skills to execute an idea through sourcing, testing and full system rollout within a given timeline.
Partner with vendors and distributors to ensure continuous supply of products to cafes by monitoring inventory.
Work collaboratively with Operations, Product Development, Finance and Marketing to understand menu changes and/or promotions and how they will affect store supply and demand to secure appropriate inventory levels.
Prepare usage reports by collecting and analyzing cost, volumes, quality, user, vendor, and other information.
Identify opportunities to simplify and/or improve processes.
Daily management of the electronic inventory/invoice system, Crunch Time.
Partner with corporate and franchise contacts to communicate supply chain and distribution information.
Monitor system compliance for distribution of approved and negotiated products.
Follow market trends in order to forecast increases and savings opportunities in all categories using the vendor community, personal networks, professional organizations and trade publications.
Create strong contingency plans to prevent outages of all key items through secondary suppliers, appropriate inventory levels, forward warehousing, etc.
Manage large programs including sourcing, contracting, distribution, QA and weekly price communication to the Operators.
Become proficient using in-house systems and vendor websites to analyze sales data, research pricing and identify price discrepancies.

BA or BS required in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics or related field.
1 - 3 years of experience in Distribution and/or Purchasing within the food service industry.
Data analysis to justify price movements.
Strong communicator comfortable dealing with Operators as well as Executives.
Comfortable making quick decisions followed by fast execution within an ever-changing environment.

401(k) with company match
15 Paid Days Off during year one
Medical, dental, life and vision insurance
Competitive salary and growth potential
la Madeleine discount!
Hybrid work schedule potential

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