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The Purchasing Manager is essential for ensuring the efficient operation of the purchasing department. This role involves overseeing team member schedules, managing inventory, and training buyers. The ideal candidate will effectively balance inventory levels with budget goals, resolve product and vendor issues, and coordinate with various departments to maintain smooth operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Staff Management: Oversee team member schedules and manage staffing needs.

• Inventory and Budget Management: Monitor inventory turnover and working capital to meet budget goals, ensuring smooth supply chain operations while optimizing cash flow.

• Training and Support: Assist and train buyers across all functional areas.

• Product and Process Oversight: Identify and prevent product dating and shrink issues. Ensure buyers adhere to vendor lead times and internal purchase order (PO) processes.

• Financial Accuracy: Verify the accuracy of financial and landed product costs.

• Inventory Adjustments: Plan and execute inventory adjustments in response to customer onboarding, seasonal shifts, sales promotions, or menu changes.

• Project Supervision: Manage special projects as directed by the Director of Purchasing.

• Forecasting and Demand Management: Maintain accurate sales forecasts, demand elements, and master data within forecasting and purchasing software.

• Service and Cost Management: Manage inventory levels to avoid disruptions, reduce shrinkage, and enhance cash flow. Ensure accuracy in PO pricing, dates, and quantities, and resolve PO/invoice disputes.

• Vendor Relations: Request authorizations for special vendor billings and assist in resolving billing disputes.

• Reporting and Issue Resolution: Review reports for potential out-of-stock situations and support buyers in addressing service issues.

• Customer Support: Assist sales and customers with product-related inquiries.

• Logistics Optimization: Ensure POs are structured to maximize logistics efficiency, including delivery dates and quantities.

• Interdepartmental Communication: Build strong relationships with accounts payable, merchandising, operations, sales, and logistics teams.

• Managerial Responsibilities: Manage department personnel, including hiring, training, performance appraisals, and addressing employee concerns.

• Special Projects: Complete additional projects and duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Logistics, or a related field, with at least three years of relevant experience. Equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered.

• Skills:

• Manage Buyers and Purchasing Assistants.

• Proficiency in Excel and other MS Office applications (Word, Outlook).

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and negotiation skills.

• Ability to work under tight deadlines and adapt to change positively.

• Basic understanding of sales, buying, and supply chain activities

Work Environment / Physical Demands:

• Regularly required to sit; frequently required to walk, use hands, talk, hear, stand, and reach with arms. Must occasionally lift up to 10 pounds. Requires close vision. The work environment is usually moderate in noise level.

Why Lineage?

This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.

Benefits

Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.

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At Lineage, we have a shared purpose: We are transforming the food supply chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world.

Our shared purpose drives everything we do in all parts of our organization, from the warehouse floor to the corner office. The work we do is noble, and our team members are passionate about the impact they make every day.

Working at Lineage is not just a job – it’s an opportunity to innovate and put your mark on how food moves from the farm to dinner tables around the world. As a member of the Lineage Logistics team, you are a critical link in the food supply chain.

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At Lineage Logistics, helping to feed the world is more than a job – it’s a purpose we live every day. Lineage is one of the world’s leading temperature-controlled logistics companies. Driven by our core values, we’re reimagining the global food supply chain.

Lineage helps customers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small family-owned businesses increase the efficiency and protect the integrity of their temperature-controlled supply chain. In recognition of the company’s leading innovations, Lineage was recognized as the No 1. Data Science company on Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2019, in addition to ranking 23rd overall in an evaluation of thousands of companies worldwide.

As part of the Lineage family, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career as we continually expand, using technology and award-winning innovations, to meet the needs of customers around the world.