Purchasing Buyer - Entry level

Triumph Foods, L.L.C. • St. Joseph, MO

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About The Position

Assist with all aspects of plant/corporate purchasing operations, including capital expenditures and budgetary controls. Responsible for purchasing materials, supplies, and services; selecting sources; maintaining purchase records and contacting suppliers. Assist other departments when necessary in searching for new sources, products, and developments. Review requisitions and create purchase orders. Negotiate with suppliers on quality, warranty, price, and delivery.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 to work at Triumph Foods.
• Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in Business, e.g., Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Marketing or have a minimum of three years of purchasing experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents in the English language, such as safety files, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of an organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardizing situations.
• Familiar with personal computers and all standard programs used by the industry.
• Ability to learn and effectively use any and all other computer programs that are or will be made available.
• Ability to be flexible in work duties and to expand knowledge of the work area.
• 10 key by touch.

Responsibilities

• Support purchasing policies, practices, and procedures that meet accepted purchasing principles.
• Support internal control procedures that protect and secure the assets of the corporation and that preclude misappropriation of funds or assets.
• Compilation of internal reports as assigned.
• Requisitioning/purchasing system for Triumph Foods that improves responsiveness, provides dollar savings through volume and blanket purchases, and meets the needs of the company with timely delivery of materials, supplies, and services.
• Receive and timely analyze (using the value analysis approach) requests for purchases of materials, supplies, and services; determine vendor source; process requisition; provide for monitoring receipt and providing status to requesting department.
• Negotiate with suppliers on quality, warranty, price, and delivery so that Triumph Foods pays only for the actual value of supplies or services received.
• Monitor an inventory control system for materials, services, and mechanical parts that ensures adequate levels for continuous operations while at the same time maintaining inventory at a level that uses a just-in-time purchase and delivery process.
• Provide both written and verbal reports on all problems/opportunities that occur in your area of responsibility, including actions being taken to correct and a recommended action plan with a timetable for achieving.
• Develop a collaborative relationship with those you need to maintain good rapport with in order to successfully accomplish your job.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level