Grocery Buyer - WA

Yoke's Foods, Inc.

Washington State - Job Description

Job Title:                   Grocery Marketing Analyst

Job Code:                  924

Department:             Operations

Reports To:               Center Store Coordinator

FLSA Status:             Exempt

EECO:                         13-1022, 0520

Wage: $24.00/hour, depending on experience with provable hours or work sample

Benefits:

·        Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – 100% Company paid

·        Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – 100% Company paid; allocations begin at age 21

 Years of Credited Service            Vested Percentage

           Less than two years                            0%

               Two years                                      20%

               Three years                                    40%

               Four years                                      60%

               Five years                                     80%

               Six or more years                        100%    

·        Daily Pay – Employee’s option to work today get paid today

·        401K – Company matching up to 4% (if elected)

·        Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance (no deductible medical option) – Employer pays majority of premium

·        Health Savings Account (HSA) – (depending on plan selected)

·        Paid holidays include: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day (time and a half for worked holidays)

·        Three days Bereavement pay

·        Three days Jury pay

·        Washington Paid Family & Medical Leave – Company pays 26.78% of premium

·        Washington Paid Sick & Safe Leave – Employees earn 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked

Essence of Position

To provide and assure a pleasant and efficient experience in the marketing, graphics, and pricing departments, throughout the office, for our stores, and our vendors by actively engaging others, ensuring they receive unparalleled hospitality and professional service. 

Shared Expectations for all roles within our company include, but are not limited to the following:

• Creating a welcoming atmosphere for everyone.
• Embracing Yoke’s Core Values and Mission Statement as an integral part of your contribution to our team.
• Promoting Yoke’s sales and company growth by patronizing Yoke’s stores and representing our company in the community with a positive message.  
• Participating enthusiastically with genuine care for our shared success, always remembering we are the owners of Yoke’s.

Tasks of Position

The following are core and essential responsibilities of this position. Associates are responsible for completing any and all duties assigned as required for the successful operation of our business. All associates are required to perform their job duties in a manner which upholds the integrity and honesty of our company. 

• Reporting for assigned shifts on time, and on a regular basis, prepared to provide excellent service and leadership
• Mentoring new associates or associates who are new to the department or task and assuring a positive learning environment.
• Overseeing selection, pricing, and placement of all items for grocery ads and month long savings guide. This includes but is not limited to the following:
• Adding marketing programs as needed.
• Meeting with vendors to negotiate for item selection, ads, and month long savings guide.
• Assisting in development of vendor cost of goods opportunities in conjunction with Center Store Coordinator.
• Performing strategic selection, pricing and placement of all items for ads and month long savings guide.
• Planning all quarterly and annual promotional calendar to ensure timely, creative, and successful competitive event advertising to ensure maximum results.
• Tracking all ad fees and bill back monies to ensure accuracy of fee collection. 
• Analyzing key item and category needs, to negotiate best possible cost of goods and method of procurement to ensure competitive posture is preserved and sales maximized.
• Developing and maintaining display planner to organize future deal dates, ad activity, TPR's, and any promotional monies available to ensure best possible buying habits and to maximize profitability.
• Selecting items and planning of items to accommodate display planner and future ad activity, including all additional TPR requirements.
• Communicating in a timely manner with all stores and suppliers.
• Ensuring all work performed in the office is completed in accordance with work rules, company policies, and any applicable laws.
• Find a way to “Make Our Guests Crazy About Us!”

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no formal supervisory responsibilities. However, every Yoke’s associate has a shared opportunity to be a leader on the job. The following quote exemplifies our belief in leadership for all associates:

 “Whether you are the president of a company or the janitor, the moment you step from independence into interdependence in any capacity, you step into a leadership role. You are in a position of influencing other people.” - Stephen Covey

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education and/or Experience
• Degree and/or a minimum of four years related experience or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Language Skills
• analyzes, and interprets general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations. Writes reports and business correspondence. Presents information and respond to questions pleasantly and effectively to other associates, vendors, guests, and the general public at all times.

• Mathematical Skills
• measurements, figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages and volume. Performs mathematical skills using units of American money and weight measurement, volume.

• Reasoning Ability
• practical problems and deals with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Interprets a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• Other Qualifications 
• position requires flexibility. The individual performing this job must be able to stay focused with a number of interruptions. Also, this position requires excellent attention to detail and goal-orientation. The individual performing this work must have an overall comprehension of the cause and effect relationship in the areas of pricing and merchandising products for the company in varying marketplaces. Ability to travel to all stores on an as needed basis is required. Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, including email required. Knowledge of RIMS helpful, but not required.

·        Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Active Shooter

Valid Driver's License or State I.D. Card

Sexual Harassment Training

HIPAA Training

Late Night Retail Safety Training

Prepare to Sell Fresh Training

Yoke’s Safety Orientation Training

Yoke’s Guest Service Training & Commitment

Physical Demands & Safety Expectations

Most positions within Yoke’s require physical effort to varying degrees. As such, associates are expected to be mindful of practicing Yoke’s safety standards at all times. This may include using personal protective equipment when and where required, understanding ergonomic safety, chemical hazards, safe lifting techniques, lockout/tag out procedures, and emergency protocol. All associates are required to report accidents within 24 hours.

No associate may pose a direct threat to the health and safety of self or others by willfully engaging in unsafe behaviors.

The physical demands listed below are representative of those that must be met by you to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, you are regularly required to walk, use hands, fingers, handle, feel, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear. 

Associate must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. 

 Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those you may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors, and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an associate may be required to perform. The Employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require associates to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations, or the work environment change.

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