NPC, LLC is a fresh produce supply chain procurement and management firm specializing in procurement and end-to-end risk management for the food service industry. NPC, LLC has a career opportunity available for a talented and passionate individual to join our team as Produce Sourcing Manager in Plano, Texas, suburb of Dallas.
NPC’s Procurement team members are assigned by category and commodities; they manage the suppliers and distribution partners, as well as costing of market fresh fruits and vegetables for our food service clients. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of fresh produce harvest and production, seasonality, costing and distribution. The ability to negotiate contracts and weekly fobs as well as initiate LTO projects, meet deadlines in a continued effort to further bring value to NPC’s LLC growing customer base while maintaining and growing the relationships with more than 120+ distribution partners across the U.S. in a fast-paced organization.
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and implementing multiple commodities, developing maintaining grower/supplier relationships in a procurement team environment. Network daily with distributors, growers, shippers of fresh produce products including juice, eggs and dairy. Procurement team members assigned by category and commodities; they manage the suppliers and distribution partners as well as negotiating weekly FOB costing of assigned market fresh fruits and vegetables for our food service clients. The role is four-dimensional: procurement (sourcing and setting fobs), transportation (logistics of reducing freight expense). Communication daily and weekly with distribution partner to ensure availability of supplies and compliance which ultimately ensures our client satisfaction of assured quality, availability and value.
Education, Experience, and Key Competencies:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Procurement, Food and Beverage or related field/comparable experience.
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Moderate PC skills including Microsoft Office Suite software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook - as well as ability to adapt to new required, proprietary computer software
programs. - Working knowledge and experience in systems, process and analysis.
- Organizational and detail orientation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Solid experience with understanding of software systems with ideas and input of continual creation of procurement and distribution software.
- Minimum 4 Years Buying and Negotiating Experience for Fruits, Vegetables and/or Dairy products in the food service industry.
- Minimum 2 Year Experience in Contract Negotiation(s), managing the buy side weekly and support with logistics as well as business planning.
- Knowledge of USDA and PACA requirements.
- Bilingual skills are a plus.
- Ability to work with others, as well put in the time to complete the task at hand.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, (people skills for correct political environments).
- A plus with this current position would be knowledge and past experience implementing a mushroom and mixed vegetable program nationally.
This is a great opportunity to take your produce career to the next level with a great company.