Associate Buyer - Anchorage

About the role

The Associate Buyer position at Charlie’s Produce involves providing administrative support to procurement staff, confirming purchase orders, managing inventory, communicating potential issues to Procurement Manager and Sales, and supporting logistical procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provides administrative support to procurement staff.
• Confirms purchase orders and passes for receiving accuracies and on-time deliveries, daily inventory adjustments, and pulls key reports for the department.
• Knows relevant purchasing cycle for each item purchased.
• Timely communication of potential inventory issues, prorates, and cost changes to Procurement Manager and Sales.
• Support established logistical procedures to facilitate product arrival and working with vendors to resolve freight damage, product damage/quality issues or discrepancies in quantities. Assist with claims related to these findings.
• Vendor account responsibilities if assigned, such as adhering to approved supplier requirements in onboarding and continuing of vendors, maintaining appropriate inventory levels, monitoring vendor performance.
• All employees are responsible for food safety and are expected to notify the appropriate manager, supervisor, or key personnel if they witness any compromise to food safety or food quality.
• Manage costs according to program stipulations and best practices in such as escalated or deescalated contract pricing, off invoice price cycles or ads.
• Understand and achieve KPIs in fill rate, variance management, proper inbound freight maintenance, PO accuracy, contract compliance, and other KPIs assigned by your manager.
• Other tasks and special projects as assigned by the Procurement Manager.

Qualifications

• Education requirements: High School preferred
• Purchasing experience desired but not required
• Computer competency, including Excel, Word, & Outlook as well as 10 Key
• Knowledge of Power Enterprise a plus
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Able to multi-task and work well under pressure
• Be able to set priorities, meet deadlines, and able to accomplish team objectives
• Strong math & writing skills required to quickly multiply & add cases/pallets & calculate product cost, market and margin

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. This is a safety-sensitive position. This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.