Our client, a well-known and respected ethnic supermarket chain wants your talent and expertise on their team! In business for over twenty years serving the Latino community, they offer a wide variety of popular food items while providing exceptional customer service to their guests.
We are seeking an experienced Bilingual Buyer – Candy to develop and implement purchasing, pricing, merchandising and promotional strategies for the organization. This qualified candidate will be working at our Los Angeles, CA office establishing processes to meet sales expectations. This opportunity offers a very competitive base salary and an exciting career track.
If you have over three years’ experience in the grocery industry or related area and have excellent written and verbal communication skills in both Spanish and English, please submit your resume in Word format to [email protected].
This is a hybrid position with required office time to be arranged with management.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Full profit and loss responsibilities for the department
- Create strategies to match sales expectations
- Oversee the purchasing functions of the department
- Develop and implement purchasing, pricing, merchandising and promotional strategies
- Select vendors, assess vendor capabilities, evaluate vendor performance and negotiate terms
- Maintain established inventory turns for each product category purchased
- Communicate with store level personnel on all new pricing information
- Stay up to date on the status of inventory in order to eliminate any slow moving/out of date/overstocked products
- Develop store level ordering strategies including management of DSD vendors
- Strive to always obtain new or improved lines of inventory and products for the organization
- Develop, implement, and maintain category planning at store level
- Expedite purchase order vendor, negotiate annual contracts and evaluate promotions
- Select and negotiate weekly Ad items
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Over three years’ related work experience in the grocery industry or related area
- Bi-lingual English and Spanish, is required
- Solid computer skills, including MS Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Strong internet navigation skills
- Excellent verbal, oral, written communication skills in both Spanish and English
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