What are the responsibilities and job description for the Formulations Administrator position at Gold Star Feed And Grain LLC?
Description
Summary:
The Formulations Administrator is responsible for maintaining the integrity of product formulations, feed tags, mixed feed margins and historical data for all of Gold Star Feed & Grain’s formulations department. Excellent communications and attention to detail are crucial.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Closely coordinates with sales and private nutritionist and GM to manage local formulation in the following areas: >Formula maintenance, additions, modifications and deletions, Tag maintenance.
- Manages and maintains contract ingredient specs and pricing.
- Updates all costs monthly.
- Determines cost formulation of “house” formulas and coordinates mixed feeds into production procedures.
- Responsible for maintaining price lists for sack and bulk.
- Coordinates with Purchasing to monitor average daily usage of individual formulation ingredients.
- Coordinates with the GM in implementing monthly formula ingredient pricing and margin management and inventory control.
- Communicate and facilitate ingredients substitutions when needed.
- Develop new procedures for keeping track of customers’ patterns as well as formulation changes monitoring.
- Support the outside nutrition partners.
- Maintaining close contact with customers to keep customer contracts in formulas current.
- Coordinates with operations and purchasing teams on least-costing for inventories at plants
- Comply with the companies Safety and Health policies as listed in the Employee Handbook
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science or related field preferred.
- Dairy industry/marketplace knowledge and strong agricultural business aptitude preferred.
- Strong attention to detail required.
- Strong computer skills required.
- Strong customer service commitment required.
- Ability to work effectively as a team member with the ability to effectively train staff members, customers, and sales/nutrition representatives.
- Must have superior verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to troubleshoot, problem solve, and follow up is required.
Salary : $22 - $27
