Junior Buyer
Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are.
In 2023, Home Chef introduced a new brand, Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of ready-to-heat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are better-for-you versions of familiar favorites, designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are protein-packed, fiber-rich, calorie and carb conscious, keto-friendly, and dietitian-approved.
Similar to our recipes, we recognize that variety is the spice of life, and therefore, our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. We’re eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chef’s offerings.
The Junior Buyer is responsible for supporting the National Procurement team. They are responsible for assisting the local teams, confirming all orders and scheduling deliveries, ensuring all products arrive in a timely manner and meets quality expectations. The Junior Buyer is the onsite representative for the procurement team.
Detailed Responsibilities
Procurement
- Schedule inbound trucks and track delayed deliveries
- Work with warehouse teams to maintain proper aging inventory levels
- Place timely, accurate orders with Home Chef vendors and/or source product locally
- Work regularly in Google Suite to determine purchase quantities
- Utilize Home Chef ERP system to cut purchase orders and track in-house inventory
- Work cross functionally with quality and production teams daily
- Reduce excess over orders by tracking product starting inventory and cutting orders as needed
- Manage product yields and forecast variability while adjusting product quantities as needed
- Determine average case counts as product arrives and make ordering adjustments as needed
Improve Purchasing Function Accuracy
- Attend and prepare for purchasing KPI meetings
- Work with buyers to determine root cause for shortages/overages and put action plans in place as needed
- Manage Price Discrepancy Log while working with cross functional stakeholders to ensure future accuracy
Onsite Procurement Support
- Act as the onsite representative for the regional procurement team, stepping in to support where necessary
This position requires 15% travel.
Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
- General high school degree, or equivalent, (e.g. GED).
- 1+ years previous experience as a buyer
- Previous experience purchasing food/produce preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with an ERP system preferred
- Strong Experience in excel
- Ability to problem solve and balance priorities in a fast paced environment
More About Us
Perks and Benefits
- Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance available
- Paid holidays, sick time and vacation time
- 401k program
- Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses
How We Work Together
We are humble team players.
We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.
We are pragmatic next-level thinkers.
We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.
We take ownership.
We approach ambiguous problems, prepared to dive in, get curious, and learn more. We are results-driven, always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.
Be at Home at Home Chef
We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities, backgrounds, and perspectives. You can trust that you’ll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.
We welcome people of all races, colors, religions, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disabilities, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.
Home Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our People team at hr@homechef.com.
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