Associate Buyer - Anchorage

Position includes but is not limited to the below responsibilities:

• Provides administrative support to procurement staff.

• Confirms purchase orders and passing for receiving accuracies and on-time deliveries, daily inventory adjustments and pulling 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.

• Vender account responsibilities if assigned, such as adhere to approved supplier requirements in onboarding and continuing of vendors, maintain appropriate inventory levels, monitors 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.

• 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 quality.

 

Peripheral Duties:  Other tasks and special projects as assigned by the Procurement Manager.