Purchasing Specialist

About the role

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Reviews requisitions
• Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information, such as price, availability, and delivery schedules
• Selects products for purchase by testing, observing, or examining items
• Estimates values according to knowledge of market price
• Determines method of procurement, such as direct purchase or bid
• Prepares purchase orders or bid requests
• Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority
• Maintains manual or computerized procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action
• May approve invoices for payment
• May expedite delivery of goods to users

Qualifications and Requirements

• 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 most cost effective purchase for organization
• Associate's or Bachelor's degree preferred or certification/licensing in a program of 18 months to 3 years duration in commercial work including purchasing and inventory management

3-5 years of purchasing experience in the poultry, beef, seafood, or dairy industry

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Strong negotiation and communication skills
• Good time management and attention to detail
• Excellent organization skills

Comprehensive benefits package that includes

Medical, Dental, Prescription Drug Plan, Disability Plan, Life insurance Plan:

• 401K savings Plan
• Paid Holidays
• Personal Time off
• Employee Discounts

• Works with the leadership team and appropriate team members to encourage and support organizational sustainability efforts.
• Supports waste reduction/optimization, water and energy conservation.
• Practice overall organizational sustainability goals and environmental preferred purchasing practices.

Quirch Foods is a diverse family of companies on a quest to seek and source environmentally conscious and sustainable food products to our customers. Works with the leadership team and appropriate team members to encourage and support organizational sustainability efforts.