Buyer - Raw Materials

Buyer – Raw Materials – C.H. Guenther

Support the execution of raw material sourcing, procurement, and supplier management across a range of categories including vegetables, spices, flavors, food chemicals, and other products.

• Develop, generate, communicate, and execute clear sourcing strategies.
• Manage inbound logistics and resolve problems with selected raw materials.
• Manage contracting and raw material costing in an SAP environment.
• Manage contract balances relative to organizational expectations.
• Create the annual budget for area of responsibility.
• Resolve PPV and costing, and invoicing issues as they arise.
• Facilitate key supply relationships.
• Support sales, marketing, and CHG finance needs relative to responsibilities.
• Responsible for the corporate financial exposure of raw materials relative to future cash flows.
• Create a market-based budget.
• Create and execute strategic sourcing projects.
• Create and execute standard costing process.
• Maintain awareness of market conditions; create market projections, and gain approval/buy-in for execution of physical contracts to mitigate adverse market price volatility.
• Responsible for managing/implementing various sales initiatives as they relate to procurement.
• Support R&D & customer-directed sourcing efforts.
• Represent procurement on product launch and reformulation teams.
• Accountable for servicing both direct and indirect production facilities through the centralized procurement raw materials.
• Create physical supply strategy.
• Ensure adherence to service commitments, specification commitments, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Problem solving, mediation, resolution.
• Participate on multidisciplinary teams to accomplish continuous improvement initiatives.
• Identify strategic relationships and build business case for long-term relationships.
• Facilitate business meetings that align supplier and CHG objectives.
• Identify and execute cost savings projects.
• Manage PPV and budget variance.
• Report raw material positions relative to expectations.
• Create and execute standard contract reconciliation process.
• Manage SAP system information.

• High School Diploma Required.
• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred:
  Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Supply Chain, Business, or related discipline.

• 0–3 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, operations, logistics, grain origination, ingredient purchasing.

• Understanding of food ingredients, application, formulation and regulatory processes.
• Knowledge of production agriculture and farm profitability factors.
• Understanding of truck/rail logistics management.
• Effective interpersonal and strong written/verbal communication skills.
• A proven track record of quickly identifying and resolving problem areas.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills.
• Flexibility and adaptive to rapidly changing environment.
• Strong Excel-based PC analytic skills.
• SAP experience preferred.
• Travel: ~15% or as required.

• Light exposure to dust, fumes, extreme temperatures, humidity, darkness, and noise.
• Moderate physical effort (standing, sitting, walking), lift up to 50 lbs, reach, climb, kneel.
• Personal protective equipment provided.

• Health and disability insurance.
• Retirement savings options.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Educational assistance.
• Parental leave.
• Paid time off.
• Company-paid holidays.

$61,352.00 – $ (actual compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, as well as geographic location).

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