Regional Buyer - Home Chef

The Buyer is responsible for purchasing all items for their region and category. They are responsible for managing supplier relationships, determining order quantities, ensuring all products arrive in a timely manner and meet quality expectations, as well as working to improve purchasing KPIs. 

Detailed Responsibilities

Procurement

• Manage ordering process for multiple facilities across menu cycles by balancing lead times, forecast variability, and multiple purchase orders
• Place timely, accurate orders with Home Chef vendors and/or source product locally
• Work regularly in excel to determine purchase quantities
• Utilize Home Chef ERP system to cut purchase orders and track in-house inventory
• Work cross functionally with quality and production teams daily
• Reduce excess over orders by tracking product starting inventory and cutting orders as needed
• Quickly source product and resolve problems in a timely manner related to inventory, product quality, and yields
• Balance production schedule with product perishability to determine best product delivery date
• Balance food costs with product quality by sourcing product from vendors that can meet Home Chef's delivery dates and quality expectations
• Review product yields and over orders on a weekly basis and make adjustments as needed
• Manage product yields and forecast variability while adjusting product quantities as needed

Vendor Management

• Regularly communicate with Home Chef vendors to ensure on-time delivery and quality ingredients
• Onboard new vendors by reviewing Home Chef ordering model and product specifications
• Ensure vendors are meeting product specifications and communicate necessary changes
• Document any vendor concerns and work with supply chain managers to resolve as needed
• Work with vendors to return excess product
• Balance vendor expectations with Home Chef expectations to ensure on-time deliveries
• Be knowledgeable on pricing differences week over week, and work with vendors to resolve issues as needed

Improve Purchasing Function Accuracy

• Attend and prepare for weekly purchasing KPI meetings
• Work to determine root cause for shortages/overages and put action plans in place as needed

Promoting and Upholding Employee Safety and Food Safety Procedures

• Support the efforts of the company to maintain our food safety system (SQF) and quality programs
• Knows, understands and supports the Home Chef's Cardinal Violations of Safety
• Keeps safety in forefront of all business decisions made and holds all direct reports accountable for ensuring safe execution of daily activities
• Starts and leads meetings with safety call outs and incidents needing reviewing
• Share safety KPIs with staff
• Drives and adheres to the Behavioral Safety Observations and holds all direct reports accountable for following guidelines
• Actively participates and holds all direct reports accountable in Incident investigations and Incident Review Board meetings. 
• Assist with all reports on Root Cause analysis as needed. Follow up on Corrective Actions
• Supports Home Chef's Safety Goals and is directly accountable for injury rates at the facility
• Adheres to the compliance training and safety team's commitment by allowing associates to attend their respective mandatory training and voluntary meetings
• Supports and participates in all emergency activities mandated by the Company
• Assures all departmental related training are  being completed and accurate

This position requires up to 40% travel.

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, ability and/or other characteristics needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• Completion of a four-year degree program in a related field
• 3+ years of experience as a buyer
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with an ERP system preferred
• Above average experience in Excel
• Ability to problem solve and balance priorities in a fast paced environment

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