Job Summary/ Primary purpose of this 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.

Reports to / Supervision Received:

Procurement Manager

Essential Functions:

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

Knowledge, Skill and Experience:

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.

Education Required:

Bachelor’s Degree required in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management or related field. Must be very skilled in Microsoft Excel or equivalent applications.

Minimum Experience Required:

Prior purchasing experience desirable