Fort Smith, AR - Purchasing Coordinator

Bachoco Group is a leading multiprotein producer and one of the top ten largest globally, with over 38,000 employees. We offer a wide range of products, including chicken, eggs, pork, beef, pet food, and more. Through Bachoco USA, we deliver high-quality chicken products to the U.S. market, serving retail, food service, and national accounts through our fully integrated operations, including farms, hatcheries, feed mills, and processing plants.

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Summary: The Purchasing Coordinator assists the department and management by maintaining existing purchasing systems and facilitating the development of new purchasing and inventory control systems. Specific functions include, but aren’t limited to, leading assigned RFX (ex. Request for Information, Request for Quotation, Request for Proposal) activity, maintaining accurate records, and running data analysis on vendor spend. Activities are targeted at standardization consistent with high quality, reliability, and plant and regulatory requirements. This role is highly visible with suppliers and internal stakeholders. A strong attention to detail and ownership is required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Reviews purchase requisitions for accuracy and completion then converts them to purchase orders.
• Manages purchase orders during the full lifecycle to ensure on time delivery and uninterrupted company performance.
• Places orders and maintains communication with various vendors and Bachoco USA departments to ensure the delivery of products and services.
• Communicates and informs internal clients on the status of all products and services in the supply chain for relevant departments.
• Troubleshoots issues with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assists in the maintenance of accurate physical inventories on all products and services.
• Maintains accurate reports for costs and inventory value for all products and services for all relevant departments.
• Ensure accurate vendor system data in conjunction with data analysis and drive professional relationships to ensure best in class vendor performance with the company.
• Perform frequent category spend analysis.
• Draft and present category spend analysis presentations.
• RFX activity, use of Coupa for RFX activity.
• Performs other duties as assigned by management.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university or a minimum of two years of relevant experience and/or training and/or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend simple and complex instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple and complex correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Inventory software; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software. Experience working in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SAP, Coupa, and Power BI preferred but not required.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.

• Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies: Please note that Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Bachoco USA.