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About The Chefs' Warehouse

The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (http://www.chefswarehouse.com) combines exceptional quality and brand building with broadline food service distribution for more than 40 years. With Protein, Specialty, Produce, and Broadline offerings, we service the most discerning chefs in a hybrid approach of convenience and superior quality. We introduce more than 4,000 artisan producers of the world’s finest ingredients from over 40 countries to the finest chefs in the world. We passionately consult, sell, and build relationships with more than 50,000 customers through the most experienced network of over 600 consultive sales associates, best-in-breed technology, rapid service, and support levels that solidify our long-standing ties to both established and up-and-coming premium restaurants.

Position Summary

Captures inventory replenishment activities with suppliers, sales, logistics, and operations for assigned categories. Coordinates with vendors to ensure timely PO fulfillment, manages vendor documents, and collaborates with accounts payable to ensure timely payments.

What You’ll Do

• Placing purchase orders with vendors utilizing an awareness of seasonal fluctuations, market effects, and other information to avoid spoilage, overstocks, and shortages.
• Maintaining and managing the entire Purchase-to-Pay process, covering: PO creation, vendor confirmation, accurate expected delivery date updates, collaboration with accounts payable to ensure timely payments, maintaining purchasing system data to generate suggested POs, maintaining necessary vendor documents (electronic and physical), such as W-9's, indemnities, etc.
• Working closely with vendors to ensure POs are filled and delivered in a timely fashion, managing FDA issues, minimizing freight expenses, collaborating with sales managers to manage out-of-stock or over-stock risks, working with customer service teams to enable sales order growth, building and maintaining vendor relationships to support PO fulfillment, negotiating volume discounts and price breaks, managing Fusion system issues impacting Purchasing and Receiving, maintaining BFC dating system to minimize close dated issues and expired product impact.

About You

• 5+ years buying experience with a focus on Specialty Food Products for a multi-unit Distribution Organization.
• Bachelor’s degree from accredited four-year college or university preferred.
• Previous food service distribution and/or food importing experience strongly preferred.
• Commodity product awareness including blanket commitments, contractual processes, and appropriate market tracking.
• Advanced Excel skill and additional computer skills (JDE, Microsoft Suite - Word and PowerPoint, etc.).
• Must have a sense of urgency and be able to work under pressure, be comfortable in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment.
• Flexible with the ability to work well with all departments and levels of staff both internally & externally.
• Professional demeanor during all interactions with vendors, customers, and fellow employees via phone or in-person.
• Have a drive to advance within the organization.
• A self-starter, professional, goal-oriented individual who can handle multiple tasks.

Perks & Benefits

• Paid vacations, paid holidays
• Health, dental, and medical benefits
• Weekly pay
• Life insurance
• 5% above cost for our high-quality food products
• Employee discounts for travel and events
• 401(k)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Chefs' Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment. We are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.