Supply Chain Buyer - Operations
Christensen Farms
- Sleepy Eye, MN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Research, evaluate, and purchase supplies, services, equipment based on price, service, quality and requirements of the business.
- Recognize market fluctuations & capitalize on advantageous buying decisions.
- Auditing of vendor contracts and performance.
- Coordinate with Accounting to mitigate invoice issues
- Standardization of process, pricing and supply chain mechanics.
- Manage Christensen Farm Items catalogs for pricing and item optimization
- Order entry into ERP/P2P system
- Assist/Lead Supplier Relationship Management to drive efficiencies within vendor community
- Communication liaison with key suppliers.
- Ability to leverage Christensen Farm's presence in the market, demonstrated value, commitment, and mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Create RFPs to achieve Total Cost of Ownership based on stakeholder needs
- Document needs and requirements from stakeholders
- Excellent negotiation skills, execution of Negotiation plan.
- Project Management skills to manage medium to large scale projects
- Understanding of the industry dynamics
- Category Planning to document history, market, risk, needs, and strategy
- Ability to resolve delivery shortfalls.
- Coordination between supplier and end user while ensuring deadlines are met.
- Strong logistical knowledge focused on least cost while maintaining delivery integrity.
- Clear and concise delivery directions and requirements in coordination with suppliers and drivers.
- Analyses optimal performance of distribution to balance biosecurity versus cost of delivery
- Ability to create projections based on historic spend, consumption, and supplier utilization.
- Contribute to KPI and dashboard inputs.
- Assist Accounting, Analysts, and Production with costs, projections. and reporting
- Ability to gather market intelligence to fully understanding market dynamics for a category or product
- Total Cost of Ownership understanding to fully implement the least cost method of ownership
- Hearing must be good to have the ability to understand information to perform job duties
- Vision must be good or corrected to normal to perform normal job duties.
- Ability to read and write in English in order to process paperwork and infer any follow-up action necessary.
- Sitting for extended periods of time.
- Manual dexterity needed for keyboarding and other repetitive tasks.
- Must be able to work in climate-controlled, office environment.