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    Food Purchasing Manager - Plano, United States - North Texas Food Bank

    North Texas Food Bank
    North Texas Food Bank Plano, United States

    4 weeks ago

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    Description

    The Food Purchasing Manager leads the planning, sourcing, and purchasing of food products in support of NTFB programs and the partner distribution network. As a member of the Food Sourcing team, this position is equipped with knowledge of food donations and optimizes funding to offer a variety of nutritious foods within budgets. This role collaborates cross-functionally to help achieve process improvement and operational efficiency as it relates to purchased food.

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

    Education:

    • Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, agricultural business, or related field is preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
    Special Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
    • Ability to identify, gather and analyze the data necessary to inform food sourcing and purchasing decisions
    • Able to present findings and recommendations to leadership to support timely decisions
    • Experienced in developing and running RFP/RFQs, negotiating favorable pricing, vendor sourcing and management and developing/maintaining vendor scorecards
    • Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be comfortable build relationships with all levels of the organization, external partners, vendors, etc.
    • Experience with ERP software (e.g., CERES, SAP), proficient in Excel and PowerPoint; Power BI and/or Jet Reports experience a plus
    • Relationships with food suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, producers, growers and packers a plus
    Experience:
    • Five years in sourcing and purchasing; food and/or fresh produce a plus
    • Supply chain/operations experience a plus
    PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
    • Drive strategic efforts, internally and externally, to improve purchased food planning, sourcing, procurement and fulfillment processes
    • Evaluating inventory levels and projected inbounds/outbounds, develop recommended monthly purchasing plan to support forecasted volume and spend for Director approval
    • Manage and execute competitive bid/purchasing processes for approved monthly purchasing plan
    • Improve cost/pound sourced through competitive bid process, product evaluation, and selection
    • Work with the Finance team as needed to improve payment terms and/or establish vendor agreements
    • Develop weekly stakeholder communication of projected purchased food availability, including USDA
    • Lead weekly cross-functional calls to review purchased food sourcing plan and ensure Operations support
    • Manage and continually evaluate vendors; identify and onboard new vendors
    • Manage USDA, Feeding America, and Collaborative for Fresh Produce planning, ordering, receiving and invoicing processes
    • Support accurate receiving of purchased items
    • Support invoice reconciliation and resolution
    • Perform other tasks and duties as assigned
    MENTAL DEMANDS:
    • The person in this position needs to adapt well in the face of workplace stressors, such as customer complaints, compliance offenses, meeting deadlines and competing priorities of reasonable or high significance to the successful function of the unit.
    • Must be able to effectively interpret data and make critical decisions that will have a significant impact on the team and organization
    PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
    • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger; handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear.
    • Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth vision and the ability to adjust focus.
    • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.
    ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS:
    • Moderate noise (i.e. business office with open floor plan with computers, phone, and printers, light traffic).
    The mental and physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

    This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all skills, duties, responsibilities, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, NTFB reserves the right to revise the job or to require other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

    The North Texas Food Bank is an equal opportunity employer.
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