Buyer / Category Manager / Merchandiser
Grocery Buyer / Merchandiser• Manage the inventory of over 2,800 SKU’s for responsible categories• Key categories include rice, coffee, cereal, soup, pasta/sauce, household and juice partnering with such vendors as Procter and Gamble, Nestles, ConAgra, Riviana Foods, General Mills and Smuckers• Maintain an overall 97.5% service level on all inventory with enhanced focus on promotional sale items, sensitive items and seasonal items to guarantee availability at all times• Review purchase orders and analyze day-to-day movement, including promotional quantities, deal levels and buy-in opportunities to support buying of over 100 vendors• Streamline and manage new grocery items obtaining samples, jpegs, acceptable entry/slotting fees, swell allowance and introduction deals on new items for presentation to senior management committee • Prepare and enter all buying projections for each sale item within category for C-Town, AIM, Bravo and the Krasdale Order Book• Appointed by senior management to create and develop the International category within the warehouse to help offset volume loss through DSD vendors; this includes inventory management and merchandising of these items• Merchandising Manager for Stop-1 and Shop Smart markets including acceptance of presented contracts, negotiation of advertising fees, determination of lead items and entry into Sell Easy system by weekly deadline • Invoice verification review including sign-off, correction and explanation of variations prior to payment by Accounting Department; understand and correct differences to alleviate future issues• Assist in development of both new and Assistant Buyers
