Buyer, Procurement

Job Summary

As a Procurement Buyer, you will determine accurate forecasts for replenishment, promotional sales and one-time buys, new item forecasting, and seasonal demand planning. You will be responsible for the forecast accuracy for specific department for vendors and/or specific categories ranging in 2,000–10,000 SKUs and up to 10 million in inventory weekly.

Job Description

• Experience Required: 1 to 3 years; Demand planning & buying experience
• Experience Desired: Experience in Logistics, Supply Chain, Warehouse Management, and/or Inventory Management
• Education Desired: Bachelors Degree
• Travel Required: Regional - Overnight, Less than 10%

Job Responsibilities

• Perform inventory analysis, including identifying and improving the root cause driving the imbalance in forecast accuracy, including post ad analysis and supply impacts (shortages, late trucks, order increments, lead time, assortment, etc.). Create and implement plans to address issues/opportunities.
• Manage all daily activities associated with forecasting and replenishing warehouse inventories for turn product-fixed replenishment, new items and increased demand for seasonal activity. Produce purchase orders using merchandising systems, making adjustments as needed, ensuring timely delivery of orders, reacting to late or unfulfilled orders, interacting with vendor customer service departments, trucking companies, and the non-banner group, assisting vendor sales reps with accurate forecasts for production warehouse management and supporting other buyers in the department when needed. Achieve targeted inventory, turn and service level goals on products purchased for Giant Eagle warehouses and maintain records on service levels.
• Develop forecasts with expected demand for promotional activity, including FP, circular and TPRs, including reward promotions, FSI history, time of month, seasonality, category and vendor input. Utilize merchandising systems to determine indexing events, impact of displays vs. open stock and past shipments and scans. Provide forecasts to vendors for large-scale events for secured supply. Create purchase orders for committed supply from merchants, non-banner and other groups.
• Monitor and resolve inventory of aged or obsolete inventory of raw materials to minimize inventory write-offs. Understand root cause for review with category manager.
• Analyze pull trends and sleepers. Maintain competitor intelligence on sales trends, seasonality and sales plan action. Collaborate with category managers and division leaders to identify opportunities increase sales, savings opportunities and implement action plans.
• Contribute to achieving wholesale profitability by researching and resolving invoicing discrepancies to ensure accurate accounts payable records — ensuring the accuracy of data within the buying and pricing systems so billing processes remain error free. Continuously strive to purchase products at the lowest possible cost.
• Execute forward buys and buys from divertor with input from the category manager.
• Assist Procurement Manager, logistics, RSC and retail with identifying/implementing tactics to improve efficiencies and reduce costs across supply chain while maintaining targeted service levels.
Work with vendor base using vendor scorecards to resolve chronic issues such as lead time, fill rate, data quality, cost accuracy, etc., to ensure an outstanding customer experience. Work closely with category and procurement managers to ensure proper stock levels and allocation for promotional and seasonal items, collaborating with suppliers on buy plans and demand plan to effectively increase fill rate.

About Us

At Giant Eagle Inc., we’re more than just food. We’re one giant family of diverse and talented Team Members. Our people are the heart and soul of our company. It’s why we strive to create a nurturing environment that offers countless career opportunities to grow. Deep caring and solid family values are what makes us one of the top workplaces for jobs in the Greater Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus and Indianapolis Areas. From our Warehouses to our grocery Stores and through our Corporate office, we are working together to put food on shoppers' tables and smiles on their faces. We’re always searching for the best Team Members to welcome to our family. We invite you to join our Giant Eagle family. Come start a lasting career with us.