REPLENISHMENT BUYER

Joseph s Gourmet Pasta Company • Haverhill, MA

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About The Position

The Replenishment Buyer has a key role in ensuring ongoing product supply for the company. This role is responsible for the planning and purchase of ingredients and packaging materials for the company. This individual will work extensively with highly perishable ingredients. This role has daily responsibilities to ensure that the manufacturing facility has all of the materials required to support their published plan and works to reconcile expected inventory to actual.

Requirements

• Broad understanding of all purchasing functions
• Broad understanding of ingredients and management of perishables
• Broad understanding of manufacturing capabilities and constraints.
• Knowledgeable at interpreting BOM’s, recipes and batching constraints
• Knowledge of Navision Dynamics or other ERP/MRP packages with a high degree of comfort handling data.
• Advanced excel skills required; must understand formula construction, pivot tables, data types.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions in mathematical, verbal or written form.
• Able to deal with multiple variables and imperfect data sources.
• High School Diploma.
• Must be detail oriented and comfortable learning computer applications

Nice To Haves

• Experience in food manufacturing is preferred
• Prior purchasing experience desirable, but not required

Responsibilities

• Oversees daily purchases of ingredients, packaging and other materials as needed
• Manages communication of specs to vendors and coordinates COA’s
• Communicates with storage facilities to ensure delivery expectations are met.
• Develops mid-range purchasing plans for long lead time ingredients
• Manages material flow between storage facilities and factory.
• Produces detailed, polished, professional communications both to vendors and internally to peers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees