Grocery Buyer/Replenisher The Market
- Date Posted August 03, 2015
- Location San Francisco, CA
- Category Business / Culinary
- Job Type Full-Time
Who you are: You are a team player who is as passionate about food as you are in growing your career. You are comfortable with ambiguity and excited by change. You are able to quickly adapt to new circumstances and have always sought a growing company you can mold and guide as it takes form. You are comfortable with technology and eager to use it to advance your environment. When you encounter a problem, your instinct is to take ownership, correct it, and develop a system to ensure forward progress. You seek the freedom to evaluate the store's priorities and want to personally contribute to its ultimate direction. You are the next face of The Market.
Available Position: Buyer/Replenisher
Reports to: Grocery Manager
Core Responsibilities:
- Support inventory strategies and established customer service objectives to ensure the correct product mix is available during the right time.
- Manage ongoing grocery replenishment orders to meet The Market’s demand while balancing strategic objectives and cost and supply constraints.
- Assist Grocery Manager in developing optimal replenishment methodology for grocery products based on order history data.
- Analyze data to generate optimal store replenishment parameters.
- Collaborate with management and employees to execute selling strategies to achieve sales and margin targets.
- Collect marketing data to establish parameters for grocery allocations, replenishment methodology and suggested orders.
- Create reports to monitor inventory levels and proactively communicate grocery inventory concerns.
- Ability to analyze data.
- Communicate with employees to align business objectives and contingency plans.
- Identify and recommend suggestions to improve ordering process and business results.
- Develop supportive relationships with stocking and receiving team through effective communications and strategic handling of tactical issues.
- Provide mentorship and training on systems and processes to other employees.
- Work with other departments to establish and maintain a positive team culture and environment built on respect.
- $18-$22 per hour
- Excellent Vacation Package
- 2-3 years experience in either grocery stocking/receiving, replenishing or supply chain management.
- Progressively responsible retail experience
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
- Proven strong conflict resolution skills in stressful or adverse situations.
- Ability to act with a “customer comes first” attitude and deliver customer service that meets or exceeds customer expectations.
- Basic skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and Google.
- Maintain regular and consistent attendance and punctuality, with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Available to work flexible hours that may include early mornings, evenings, weekends and/or holidays.
- Available to work flexible hours that may include a total of 40 or more hours per week.
- Must be able to frequently lift 50 pounds and occasionally lift up to 75 pounds.
- Extended periods of standing/walking.
- Occasional stooping, kneeling or crawling.
- Occasional ascending or descending ladders, stairs, ramps.
- Must be able to utilize computer or POS Register for extended periods, while receiving detailed verbal information.
- Constant clarity of vision at near and/or far distances.
- Must be authorized for work in the U.S.