What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Chain Specialist position at CareersInFood.com?
Join Our Team as Green Coffee Specialist at TCPL!
TCPL is seeking a dynamic and experienced Green Coffee Specialist to join our Integrated Supply function in a full-time, salaried role based in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.
This position plays a pivotal role in strengthening and accelerating our core business and creating a future ready organization. You'll work closely with the Head of Coffee Trading, Buying, and Blending, undertaking full responsibility of the green coffee lab and executing sample analytics, roasting, cupping, grading and sample entry into our reporting system.
Other responsibilities include the creation and maintenance of various reports, which allow the Center of Excellence to analyze the global coffee market, anticipate future movements, and act accordingly.
Financial Outcomes
- Data Analysis:
- Maintain origin knowledge to ensure cost savings opportunities and impact of dynamic market changes
- Manage biweekly, monthly, quarterly, and S&D reporting to ensure best tools for decision making
- Trade Engagement:
- Record purchase contracts, sales contracts, price fixing and invoices
- Provide support for daily hedging operations – price fixing and AAs, options expiry
- Key involvement with vendor reports, S&Ds, and market insights
Customer Service
- Develop & Maintain relationships with suppliers, including daily correspondence on quality, contracts, and position management
- Support innovation for key customers
Internal process
- Coffee Lab & Quality:
- Lead the processing of coffee samples and analytical analysis for green coffee and finished products
- Ensure green coffee deliveries through timely roasting, grade inspection, cupping, and data entry
- Visual, physical, and sensorial coffee evaluation Maintain retention samples & lab organization
- Logistics:
- Support planning, recommending, and coordinating coffee supply chain logistics activity
- Ensure appropriate documentation for green purchase and delivery
- Support/cover monthly financial reporting and customer purchasing as needed
Innovation and Learning
- Strategic involvement on blending and supply solution
- Support blend formulation, product development and optimization, and innovation initiatives
- Attend market and/or CPMG innovation conferences – travel required
What are the Critical success factors for the Role?
- 3 years of coffee experience or translatable industry experience (tea, cacao)
- Seamlessly adopts technology
- Bachelor’s Degree or significant coffee industry experience
- Organoleptic ability and basic sensory skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills to ensure clear communication for multilingual relations
- Detail orientated
- Able to prioritize a variety of tasks and pivot functions easily
What are the Desirable success factors for the Role?
- Q grader or ICE Arabica/Robusta grader preferred
- Team building, project management and problem-solving skills
- Basic negotiation skills