Job Description
Job Description
Summary
The junior buyer is responsible for planning, scheduling, negotiating, sourcing, and procuring raw materials, parts, and components consistent with company policies and procedures. By managing the supply chain, this position ensures the continuous flow of materials to support production in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
Qualifications Accountabilities:
- Create Purchase Orders (PO) for vendors.
- Create intercompany transfer orders.
- Assist buyers with matching sales confirmations, passings and add on purchase orders.
- Communicate special order items to sales, and operations for orders going out daily.
- Demonstrate effective collaboration skills by open communication and sharing pertinent business information.
- Review suppliers to ensure they understand the quality and delivery requirements.
- Assist Purchasing with pushing items to sell and promote products with the Sales team.
- Communicate short list with inventory, sales, and customer service.
Requirements
- 1-2 years of purchasing experience
- Knowledge of product and service vendor sources
- Knowledge of purchasing procedures and practices
- Ability to analyze varying product and service features, prices, and qualities, and determine the most cost-effective purchase for the organization
- Strong negotiation and communication skills
- Good time management and attention to detail
- Excellent organization skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $21.24 - $21.68 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Paid time off
Company DescriptionWe at Fresh Prime are committed to deliver the freshest high quality produce. Our programs are designed to meet the seasonal needs for supermarket chains, wholesalers and e-commerce produce retailers or distributors. Our Mission is to be recognized as the preferred source of produce by providing exceptional products, services and logistics. Fresh Prime has long believed that reputation and integrity are the most important assets in any business. Building and growing successful business relationships requires hard work, creativity and innovative thinking. Fresh Prime believes for every customer, the opportunity to fulfill their needs means they should not be approached with predetermined notions. Fresh thinking and new perspectives spell the difference between average and exceptional performance. The constant goal in our company is to create value for our customers, we measure everything we do to ensure an exceptional product is delivered at a reasonable price to our customers.
Company Description
We at Fresh Prime are committed to deliver the freshest high quality produce. Our programs are designed to meet the seasonal needs for supermarket chains, wholesalers and e-commerce produce retailers or distributors. Our Mission is to be recognized as the preferred source of produce by providing exceptional products, services and logistics. Fresh Prime has long believed that reputation and integrity are the most important assets in any business. Building and growing successful business relationships requires hard work, creativity and innovative thinking. Fresh Prime believes for every customer, the opportunity to fulfill their needs means they should not be approached with predetermined notions. Fresh thinking and new perspectives spell the difference between average and exceptional performance. The constant goal in our company is to create value for our customers, we measure everything we do to ensure an exceptional product is delivered at a reasonable price to our customers.