Buyer

The Buyer is responsible for supporting the Senior Manager in ensuring a continuous supply of assigned products at the best cost to the U.S. Customer Restaurant system. Principal accountabilities include providing the necessary analytical work and information to support the Senior Managers product categories and decision-making process. Information could include, but not limited to sales volumes, production schedules, timeline development, industry research and leveraging learnings with RSCI and RSMI and/or identifying synergies. The Buyer must assist and support the Senior Manager and from time-to-time other members of the Food & Packaging in the day-to-day activities related to ensuring supply and to ensure the continued success and growth of CLIENT and its commitment to be “The best Purchasing entity in the industry”. RESPONSIBILITIES: Supporting Senior Manager in ensuring a continuous supply of competitively priced products on a regular and timely basis. Managing and facilitating relationships with Customer Corporation (Innovation, Marketing, Culinary and QA.) Working with the Customer culinary and development teams to facilitate the introduction of new products to the Customer system. Managing relationships with suppliers. Facilitate industry research to support strategy development, including identification of new suppliers, industry trends and underlying cost analysis. Utilization of MicroStrategy to run necessary ad-hoc reports. Creating applicable pricing review schedules within CLIENT Supply Chain systems. Independently have the ability to calculate pricing formulas and uploading documentation consistent with Pricing Procedure outlined in CLIENT Operations Manual. Build and run LC analysis models at the direction of the Senior Manager Monitoring pricing compliance and ensure completion of all pricing review requirements; ensuring full transparency related to modifications, discrepancies and/or errors. Establishing and monitoring vendor capacity/distribution capabilities to ensure that all quality, cost, and service expectations are met. Monitor supplier inventory to minimize potential supply gaps/outages. Working with the Promotions Planning department to ensure successful launch of new products from rollout or a successful inventory depletion of an existing product. Monitoring production schedules for promotional and/or new product activity and monitoring of supplier production on weekly basis. Creating timelines for promotional and/or new product activity, communicating to client, as necessary, to obtain necessary concurrence and support. Communicating marketing activities to appropriate suppliers. This position has no direct reports. Provide any additional support as needed or required to meet business needs and priorities of the organization. ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES Assist in the preparation of all necessary Board/F&P Committee materials Working with the RSCI and RSMI teams to identify collaborative purchasing opportunities and to expand related category learning. EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: A four-year degree is required. Must have at least two to three years of direct and relevant work experience. OTHER QUALIFICATIONS: Must have excellent analytical, written, and oral communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, ability to work independently, and as a member of a team, ability to identify problem and develop solutions, detail oriented and computer literate in the MS Office environment (Excel, Word, Power Point)