What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer's Assistant - Grocery position at URM Stores Inc?
Description
URM Stores, Inc. is currently looking for a motivated Buyer's Assistant to join our growing team! The ideal candidate for our Buyers Assistant position, has a minimum of 2 years’ experience in Grocery, Food Brokerage, or Administrative Assistant experience. As a member of our team, you will experience the support, camaraderie and satisfaction that comes from working for a professional and diverse company!
We are also looking for unique enthusiasm, high integrity, courage to embrace change, and if you’re ready to roll up your sleeves, go above and beyond and put your ambition to work, all while having some fun, let’s chat – Apply Today!
Your Day-to-Day:
- Review and enter vendor cost changes looking for discrepancies and discontinued items.
- Add new items, update existing items and communicate updates to other departments as needed.
- Assist in the setup of show catalogs/bulletins.
- Track and update PO’s in the system for both every day and promotional programs.
- Work with warehouse receiving department on PO questions and issues.
- Work with warehouse on scheduled show/promotional item releases.
- Set up new vendors and maintain vendor compliance.
- Resolve with vendors any missing or shorted shipments, cancellations and over shipments.
- Reconcile and balance invoices with incoming product received pricing and freight charges.
- Selling overstocked products to customers.
- Create Letters to communicate item changes to customers.
- Assist the other purchasing teams as backup or for special projects as needed.
- Work Hours: 7:30am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday.
Requirements:
- Detail-oriented with ability to multitask, work under pressure, and meet time sensitive deadlines.
- Grocery industry experience.
- Retail industry experience.
- Working knowledge and application of the distribution process.
- Proficiency and accuracy in 10-Key and data entry.
- Efficient in Excel, Word, and other basic computer programs.
- Excellent phone skills and verbal communication.
- Basic math and accounting skill.
- Ability to interpret instructions, both written and verbal.
- Can work well with others, with good interpersonal abilities.
- Organized and detail-oriented with an ability to work well under pressure.
Bonus if you have:
- Experience with the following:
- o AS 400
- o Adobe
- o Perenso - Show Software
- o BOX – Cloud storage
Up for the challenge to take your career to the next level? You Belong at URM!
It is fun to work in an organization where employees are appreciated, and people truly believe in what they are doing. URM supports employee development and hope you grow your career with us! In addition to our supportive culture, our employees enjoy many perks. Below are a few of the highlights:
- An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, the prevailing minimum wage for the location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, and business or organizational needs. Salary range $20 - $21 an hour DOE, plus so much more!
- Insurance Benefits – So that our non-union employees have more to take home from their paycheck, URM pays 100% of the Medical/Dental/Vision/RX Insurance premiums for the employee and over 90% for the employee’s dependents!
- 401k Retirement Plan with an amazing Company match up to 9% of your annual salary!
- Subsidized Life Insurance for employees and great rates for the employee’s family.
- Company paid Long-Term Disability insurance.
- Short-Term Disability and Cancer Insurance available.
- Life Flight Insurance at Special Rate.
- Great vacation plan!
- Six Paid Holidays and four Paid Personal Holidays.
- Paid Sick Days.
- Paid Volunteer Service Day! Get paid to volunteer at your favorite non-profit!
- Experience enjoyable Company sponsored activities through events like URM March Madness Brackets, Family Hockey Night with the Chiefs, Holiday Mingle & Jingle with great raffle giveaways, Summer Evening Wine & Music Event, and Winter Break Movie Night, which are just a glimpse of the fun we have to offer for employees and their families!
- Plus, enjoy a variety of Corporate discounts, from gym memberships, cell phone plans, to computer discounts!
- We also offer an Amazing Employee Discount Program at our Company-owned Grocery Stores!!!!
URM Stores, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of Race, Religion, Color, National Origin, Citizenship, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Ancestry, Veteran Status, Genetic Information, or any other classification protected by state or federal law. We are also committed to providing a work environment that is free of all forms of discrimination, regarding recruiting, hiring, training, promotions, compensation, and all other conditions of employment. The selected candidate must be able to successfully complete a pre-employment background check, and drug test, as URM is a drug free workplace.
Salary : $20 - $21
