Job Description:
Early and busy Bay Area Produce Sales office seeks a Chili Buyer. Very proficient bilingual skills a must -- Spanish and English. Management of commodity positions to include future and daily requirements; consistently meeting demand for annual growth targets.
- Work with category driver to identify opportunities to grow sales
- Interact with Value Driven Sales for Daily and Weekly planning
Full Time Benefits to include, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life insurance, PTO, 401k, short and long term disability, and an optional bonus pool. Please include salary requirements when applying for this position.
Requirements:
- Excellent customer service
- Critical thinker with strong organizational, problem-solving and analytical skills
- Must be a self-starter and team player
- Proven ability to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills are required
- Punctual and reliable
- Willingness/flexibility with work schedule - 5 days a week, Monday thru Friday with at least one Saturday per month.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Maintain up to date inventory and lot reconciliations
- Process, update and track sales orders
- Establish and maintain relationships with growers, customers and truckers
- Manage logistics of produce shipments
- Answer phones and handle calls with professional demeanor
- Handle customer service situations with calm and grace
- Assist sales agents as needed
Skills:
- Very proficient bilingual skills a must. Spanish and English.
- Computer skills a must
- Microsoft Word/Excel proficient
Qualifications:
- Forecasting (pricing/avail/quality/disruptions)
- Contract implementation and execution
- Supply management
- Management of Ad tracker/planning – maintain and update as necessary
- Value Coordinator communication
- Implement/maintain purchasing plan
- Growing Strategy with Sr. Commodity Manager
- Procurement and Settlements
- Packaging planning and execution – Know your inventories
- Pallet solutions
- Effective communicator
- Strong category comprehension
- Understanding of customer requirements and quality attributes
- Ability to define and forecast market values
- Interpersonal skills a must
- Creative Solutions
- Problem Solver
- Negotiation attributes
- Detailed and tactical planner
- Analytical thinker
- Relationship builder
- Relationship diplomat
- Intelligence accrual and application to planning process
- Great sense of humor !!
