About Us:

Daisy Brand is a privately owned, leading manufacturer of premium sour cream and cottage cheese for retail and food service customers with sales. A history of steady and continued growth, and advanced hands-on work environment makes Daisy Brand one of the most compelling opportunities around. We offer a great work environment with exciting and challenging opportunities for the future.

Having grown to above a 50 share, Daisy Brand Sour Cream is the Nation’s number one brand with distribution in all 50 states. Additionally, Daisy is the largest brand in food service, military, and club and is recognized by consumers for “A Dollop of Daisy”, a tagline that put this once small brand on the map.

While maintaining a strong culture of curious and innovative problem-solvers, Daisy Brand tripled employment over the last 15 years. The future looks bright with the opening of its third facility to further strengthen the foundation for growth.

The Purchasing Manager supports all manufacturing facilities, the corporate office, marketing, finance, and IT while providing solutions to sourcing challenges within a dynamic environment. This position is expected to demonstrate the ability to advance within the organization.

Responsibilities include:

• Supplier Management: Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers. Evaluate and select suppliers based on quality, cost, and reliability. Monitor supplier performance and conduct regular reviews.
• Contract Negotiation: Negotiate contracts and agreements with suppliers to secure the best terms and conditions. Collaborate with cross-functional team across the organization to qualify vendors.
• Procurement Strategy: Develop and implement procurement strategies to ensure a continuous supply of necessary materials while minimizing costs and managing risk.
• Inventory Management: Oversee inventory levels to ensure optimal stock without overstocking or stockouts. Collaborate with the production and logistics teams to forecast demand and adjust purchasing plans accordingly. Ensure supply chain contingency plans.
• Cost Control: Monitor and control purchasing budgets. Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities without compromising quality.
• Quality Assurance: Work closely with the quality assurance team to ensure that all purchased materials meet the required standards and specifications. Address any quality issues with suppliers promptly.
• Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and improve purchasing processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness.
• Data Analysis: Analyze market trends, demand patterns, and supplier performance data to inform purchasing decisions. Prepare regular reports on procurement activities and performance metrics.
• Team Management: Lead and develop a team of purchasing professionals. Provide training, support, and performance feedback to ensure a high-performing team.

Required Experience: Minimum ten years in the buying, sourcing or procurement function. Experience in dairy or food industry required.

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in Purchasing or Supply Chain.

Skills Required:

• Experience with setting up and developing processes and protocols in Microsoft D365 or another ERP system.
• Curiosity as it relates to purchasing and financial systems management.
• Proven track record of working with teams and providing organizational direction.
• Negotiating and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organizational ability and multi-task capabilities.
• Logical thinking processes and problem-solving expertise.
• Results oriented and highly customer focused.
• Strong analytical aptitude.
• Supervisory experience.

Company Overview

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.