Buyer

About the role

The Procurement team is a key contributor to UNFI and is responsible for strategic planning, purchasing, and management of over $2B in inventory. The procurement teams work hand in hand to support our customers and suppliers' needs, while achieving the goal of providing high service levels, and working towards creating new innovative solutions to drive UNFI's growth. Partnering with our suppliers and customers, we strive to make them stronger, our supply chain better, and our food solutions more inspired.

Job Responsibilities

• Accountable for inbound flow of product and inventory level management to maintain targeted outbound service levels impacting organizational profitability and customer success.
• End-to-end responsibility for assigned buying desk while achieving department-required metrics (i.e., fill rate, days on hand, shrink, etc.).
• Responsible for root cause analysis of the inconsistency in demand to understand drivers, determine needed actions, and implement those actions in coordination with Procurement partners to protect service and limit excess.
• Procures and manages investment buys to attain projected category profitability.
• Creates, reviews, and analyzes daily/weekly self-service reports to check service levels and inventory turns, and adjusts as needed.
• Manages appropriate inventory levels within set targets as product arrives as scheduled, allowing for appropriate lead time to maximize fill rate and minimize excess and spoilage.
• Maintains and monitors product data to ensure category goals are met for fill rate and in-stock.
• Aids in mentoring and training members of the buying team.
• Mets deadlines and completes special projects as assigned.
• Organizes and prioritizes purchase orders, maintains inventories, monitors usage inconsistencies, price changes, pack changes, and vendor back orders.
• Leverages Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Outlook, Adobe Reader, Power BI, and proprietary host systems to communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Communicates effectively with internal and external stakeholders to bring visibility to opportunities within the area of responsibility.
• Ants and analyzes impacts and develops an action plan that engages suppliers, customers, internal stakeholders such as operations, sales, merchandising, and leadership.
• Collaborates with other internal teams to identify and solve supply chain issues for external customers.

Job Requirements

• Education/ Certifications: Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Basic knowledge of procurement and logistics processes, knowledge of industry forecasting practices, understanding of grocery categories, strong analytical and math skillset, proficiency in Microsoft Excel, capability to learn and utilize multiple disparate systems, ability to identify and understand trends, excellent problem-solving capabilities, ability to manage multiple simultaneous workstreams while ensuring base forecasting needs are met, mindset of continuous improvement, strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work independently as well as with a larger group, preferred SQL, Python, Alteryx, etc., ability to work proactively and autonomously in a remote work environment, good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available.