What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer - Vendor position at Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC?
Company Description
We are passionate about our work and take great pride in consistently providing safe, premium-quality non-GMO, organic and gluten-free pulses, grains, seeds, flax and expeller oils to the food and pet food industries.
Our ingredients can be found in many of your favorite brands found on grocery store shelves.
We are driven to make healthy ingredients more accessible globally. We actively explore ways to expand our ingredients and their applications through innovation and strategic partnerships.
Role Description
This individual will work under the supervision of the Procurement Manager. They will be responsible for procuring identified specialty non-GMO and organic crops from vendors to meet our customers’ needs.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
· Develop relationships with vendors of assigned products
· Understand the complexity of each product assigned (i.e., growing conditions, planting dates, harvest dates, cost of the product, market analysis and trend of each product, etc.)
· Travel for face-to-face visits with vendors
· Attend domestic trade shows
· Provide timely pricing to sales personnel of assigned portfolio
· Provide written reports to the supervisor and other HFI personnel as requested
· Work as a team across other internal departments including Logistics, HFI Facilities, Accounting, Sales, and Quality
· Develop and maintain tracking mechanisms for all assigned inventory
· Work with other purchasing and crop production team members’ portfolios when necessary or as a back-up
· Maintain positions for assigned products
· Maintain other records as needed
QUALIFICATIONS:
· Well organized with attention to detail
· Excellent written and verbal skills
· Must be able to work in a team environment.
· Experience in specialty crops and grain procurement
· Strong contract negotiation and management skills
· Willing to travel within North America
· Ability to make decisions.
· Self-starter
This position would work out of our Fargo, ND office OR Watertown, SD.