ingredient Buyer

If you are a Ingredient Buyer with 3+ years processed food ingredient buying experience ready to join a well established pet food manufacturer, then this role is for you. You will be responsible for procurement raw material and supplies, negotiate price and terms with vendors and insure that goods are delivered in time and without problems. This is a full time direct hire role.

**Protein buying experience required.

What you will do as ingredient buyer :

• Request bids from vendors and prepare quotes
• Maintain relationship with existing suppliers and create new ones, evaluating suppliers based on quality, price and reliability
• Manage records on purchase orders, pricing
• Research market conditions and other trends
• Other tasks as advised

What you will need as an ingredient Buyer:

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with planning and forecasting
• Food buying experience
• Process food experience buying a plus
• Buying Meats for manufacturing
• Have supplier connections
• Experience as a buyer, manufacturing background a plus

What you will get as an ingredient Buyer:

• Competitive pay
• Great Benefits
• work-life-balance