Assistant Buyer(Fruits and Vegetables) - Bengaluru, India - Lulu Global Mall

Lulu Global Mall

Verified Company

Bengaluru, India

1 week ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

beBee Recuiter

Description

The Assistant Buyer experience in Fresh Fruits & Vegetables for sourcing, purchasing, on-time deliveries.

Sources the full scope of raw materials, fresh food commodities, Maintains strong supplier relations and a competitive pricing edge to leverage spend.

Is accountable for delivery of services, quality products, cost containment and communicating effectively at all levels

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Responsible for developing sourcing strategies based on business priorities and needs.
Works closely with planning and production scheduling to ensure that raw ingredients, fresh food, and the components that go into the processing of our products are here on time, at the lowest cost while meeting the highquality standards expected.
Actively manages the planning, scheduling, and basic logistics associated with buying fresh foods, raw materials, ingredients, fruits and vegetables, and dairy products for a production environment.
Responsible for utilizing administrative and business procedures or functions that support the Planning & Purchasing department related functions.
Responsible for maintaining an awareness of commodity price and availability risk, alerting management and developing sourcing strategies to reducemoderate such risk.
Builds and maintains excellent customer relations, acting proactively to resolve potential issues and adapting to everchanging business environments.
Monitors supplier improvement plans for serviced accounts. Reinforces quality and ontime delivery standard expectations within agreed price points. Reports shortages, bad or damaged product, and pursues credits.
Provide information to Marketing, R&D, and Product Supply relative to changes in lead times for color separations/engravings and packaging to ensure optimal availability and service.
23 years of purchasing and vendor management experience.
3+ years of experience negotiating contract terms and conditions, and managing ontime deliveries.
Release and create Purchase Orders as needed. Forward to designated personnel—both internal and external. Is responsible for the accuracy of the cost on the PO's before they are received into Company ERP system.
Notify AR, AP, and any other necessary departments of any price changes on item purchases that may impact the costing model and sales. Proactively identifies seasonal and environmental fluctuations in costs when forecasting.
Schedule pickups/willcall orders with certain vendors and communicate to shipping/receiving department.
Understands and monitors KPI's, department targets, and the root cause of poor performance. Implement corrective actions to drive results. Responsible to make the right decisions, quickly to achieve plans for the Company in coordination with the team and crossfunctional partners.
Follow all health and safety standards, GMP's, food safety, FIFO, visual quality and PPE requirements.
Supports our green waste recycling program, ensuring waste products are properly accounted for.
May complete a variety of reports, routine office tasks that may include receiving documents, typing, preparing reports, completing research, track information and KPI's, prepare or update excel spread sheets, copying, scanning, etc. Performs other duties as needed.