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Job Description
Community Coffee Company is a high performance company with emphasis on teamwork and employee care. Steeped in tradition as rich as our coffee, we pride ourselves on our commitment to providing exceptional products, services, and solutions for our customers. Focused on growth, our company is looking for exceptional individuals who share our values and our vision of being the best coffee company in America.
We are currently seeking a General Manager of Purchasing to provide overall leadership of the day to day purchasing function in support of the overall company strategies.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manages supplier selection and strategic alliances, ongoing vendor evaluation and PO management to enhance revenues and reduce costs.
- Lead complex and strategically important negotiations. Provides negotiation advice and direction to other procurement team members. (Establishes key objectives)
- Improves supply chain methodologies and processes to create a system which continuously updates and evaluates pricing, controls and inventory to keep costs at their most favorable without sacrificing quality or schedule.
- Identify and drive cost savings initiatives.
- Collaborates with Sales, Marketing and Operations on slow or obsolete inventory to determine disposition and SKU rationalization.
- Works with the Sales Management Team on product sales opportunity and cost effectiveness.
- Oversees or prepares purchase orders, communications and other reports and documents as required.
- Supervise staff to include hiring, training, evaluating performance, providing compensation recommendations and ensure compliance with corporate policies, goals and objectives.
- Approve purchase requisitions based on product needs, contract requirements, and the volume and financial impact.
- Conducts ongoing market analysis to proactively initiate changes to take advantage of market conditions.
- Establishes Purchasing performance metrics and drives for progress towards assigned targets and goals. Analyzes key data and prepares a monthly report of performance information on the Department’s results.
- Responsible for the creation, oversight and adherence to the Purchasing Department budget.
- Utilizes and develops continuous improvement initiatives to promote, process and operational efficiencies and increased productivity in addition to reducing transactional cost.
- Coordinates projects, develops and trains team, builds cross functional relationships.
- Initiate legal contract documents.
- Review and implement policy changes in addition to managing business continuity plan for Purchasing.
- Responsible for ensuring both internal and external customer needs and expectations are meet through the sourcing and procurement of quality products, timely delivery and competitive cost.
- Performs other duties as required.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a business management related area. A degree in Supply Chain Management, CPM or CPSM a plus.
- 10+ years managing purchasing with progressive achievement
- Excellent presentation and proven negotiating skills as well as relationship management experience.
- Able to work effectively with vendors to ensure there is clear communication and understanding of the Company’s needs and expectations.
- Experience developing subordinates required.
- Experience performing/overseeing supplier audits.
- Demonstrated team building and problem solving skills.
- Strong initiative and drive while exhibiting a flexible, approachable demeanor.
- Strong working knowledge of relevant industry issues, opportunities and trends.
- Strong analytical skills and rich business acumen.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, attentive and timely in responses.
Primary Location:
- United States-Louisiana-Baton Rouge
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