Senior Buyer

PURPOSE

The Senior Buyer supports the organization by developing and executing purchasing strategies, tracking metrics to reduce expenses, negotiating contracts, and managing vendors for three manufacturing facilities.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES:

• Ensure materials offer optimal machine and line efficiencies at the plant level
• Develop cost saving supply plans based on total cost of ownership
• Negotiate price and contracts with suppliers
• Understand and report on material cost drivers and variances between markets
• Create and review short and long-term forecasts with Suppliers
• Lead cross functional teams through critical inventory discussions
• Develop and execute material transition strategies
• Develop tools to aid in maintaining and reporting inventory levels
• Issuing, tracking and updating purchase orders for materials
• Lead both internal and supplier business reviews
• Maintenance of ERP system to ensure accuracy

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Senior Buyer manages spend across multiple categories of goods utilized to produce Daisy Brand products. These categories include, but are not limited to packaging materials, ingredients, chemicals and utilities through the creation and implementation of sourcing events. This position leads cross functional participants through the sourcing process ensuring organization alignment based on supplier capabilities, capacities, pricing and most importantly efficiencies within Daisy Brand production plants.

The milk and cream settlement process will also be managed by the Senior Buyer. Responsibilities include ensuring accurate lab test and weight results in system, review and correction of supplier invoices and ensuring payments are based on correct market price.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics or Business Administration
• 5+ years experience in Purchasing or Supply Chain
• Experience in manufacturing industry desired but not required.

EXPECTED SKILLS

• Ability to build strong working relationships
• Experience working within an ERP System
• Understanding of Purchase to Pay Process
• Understand Enterprise business relationships and how role impacts others
• Strong understanding of the financial aspects of capital expenditures, ROI, NPV, cash flow, total cost of ownership, etc
• Ability to develop and implement a well-thought-out sourcing and inventory control strategy
• Strong analytical, research and negotiation skills
• Experience with advanced Microsoft Excel functionality
• Logical thinking processes and problem solving expertise
• Ability to travel up to 20% depending on project requirements

For five generations spanning over a century, Daisy Brand has been a family-owned company committed to providing the freshest, most wholesome dairy products. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with manufacturing facilities in Garland, Texas (1998), Casa Grande, Arizona (2008), and Wooster, Ohio (2015).

Daisy is the market leader in two billion-dollar categories, sour cream and cottage cheese, and generates over half a billion in revenues annually. Daisy Sour Cream represents 1 out of every 2 sour cream purchases in the United States and is the largest sour cream brand in food service, military, and club. It is recognized by consumers for A Dollop of Daisy, a tagline that put this once small brand on the map. Daisy Cottage Cheese is Americas #1 cottage cheese brand and continues to bring new consumers into the category with its innovative single serve packaging and consistent high quality. Daisy recently expanded into a new category with the launch of two dip products and is in the process of expanding distribution.

Daisy's core values, Clean and Trust, resonate in all aspects of our business operations. In 2008, the Foundation for Financial Service Professionals awarded Daisy the prestigious American Business Ethics award.

While maintaining a strong culture of curious and innovative problem-solvers, Daisy Brand has more than doubled employment over the last 15 years and is continuing to grow. Currently, we are proud to employ over 650 full-time staff across more than 25 states throughout the United States.

At Daisy Brand, we value longevity and aim to foster a working environment where employees can envision a long-term career. Companywide, the average employee tenure stands at over seven years. Our corporate office and sales team each boast an average tenure exceeding eleven years, while our manufacturing facilities also demonstrate strong employee retention with tenures averaging over seven years.

Daisy Brand offers an industry leading benefits package that includes:

• A no-deductible, $0 premium option for employee-only health coverage.
• 401(k) with 50% company match on first 8% of earnings you contribute.
• Safe harbor and profit-sharing company contributions to 401(k).
• Company paid short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Company paid 2X annual salary life and AD&D insurance.
• 4 weeks annual paid time off.
• 20 floating holiday hours and 6 company paid holidays.
• Extra time off for volunteering.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Fitness membership reimbursement.
• And more

Daisy Brand is a nicotine-free company. Daisy Brand is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans and disabled encouraged to apply.