WHO IS FOODBUY?

We are the industry leader in procurement and supply chain solutions. We are the subsidiary to the 6th largest company in the world (Compass Group PLC), yet Foodbuy has the feel of a small entrepreneurial Company. We pride ourselves on our ability to source and provide a variety of products and services that help our customers more easily, and cost effectively, run their businesses. We work with clients in the Hospitality, Restaurant, Healthcare, Education, Entertainment, and Gaming industries, and of course we support Compass Group- which is the world’s largest contract food and support services provider.

JOB SUMMARY

The Procurement Specialist role sits in out our Termset Management, Operations Department and is expected to be a subject matter expert on all aspects of contract implementation within Foodbuy’s proprietary contract tracking system, “Supply Chain”. The Procurement Specialist will have varying forms of direct process ownership including our more financially challenging and risky tasks: high ROI commodity suppliers, system overlap resolution, financial quality control and reporting. This role has significant autonomy to innovate and develop solutions to a wide range of team and departmental challenges. It is highly analytical in nature and a successful candidate will be organized and detail oriented with proven experience utilizing Excel. Ideal candidates will have experience with Excel VBA Macro’s.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS

• High proficiency with entire MS Office Suite including advanced Outlook and Excel (Lookups, Pivot Tables, Intelligent Formulas).
• Ability to write/understand Nested If Statements to remove human decision making from spreadsheets
• Mandatory experience working within complex business systems or databases
• MS Teams, Zoom, or other video conferencing tools.
• Ability to read/edit/write Excel VBA to maintain and modify Excel Macro’s. (Experience with PowerBI/SQL/PowerAutomate will be accepted in lieu of VBA).
• Experience manipulating and analyzing datasets of at least 50,000 rows up to 100,000 rows in size.
• Prior experience working smarter, not harder, delivering improvements on daily/weekly/monthly processes.
• Knowledge of Supply Chain (or other system-based data management technology) preferred.

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• High powered use of Excel to:
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• Perform contracting gap analyses (audits and reconciliations) against master contract data vs termset standards

• Calculate historical VA owed by calculating rates per period and applying to transactional data
• Find the “needle in the haystack” to solve root cause for Termset Overlaps
• Generate results for complex ad hoc analysis requests
• Calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, metric conversions, area, and volume
• Compile and present data summaries in a clean and concise manner
• Run point for multiple “central owner/bulk” managed processes
• Daily application of algebra and basic calculus concepts
• Process high volumes of data requests accurately and ahead of very strict deadlines
• Remain flexible and adapt as needed to unforeseen technology challenges
• Act as team SME and support analysts with problem solving activities before they are escalated to management
• Act as backup for the Pricing Analyst to support the weekly Price Release processes
• Utilize, edit, create intelligent spreadsheets that reduce human touchpoints across routine tasks
• Utilize Excel VBA to create/edit/maintain Macros as needed
• Strong desire to self-teach new technical skills not limited to SQL, PowerBI, PowerQuery, PowerAutomate, etc.
• Train new analysts on all Termset Management concepts and best practices
• Absorb functionality to cover for associate turnover
• Regularly pull tangible and intangible data pieces together to draw conclusions and provide recommendations for solutions where limited standardization and multiple variables exist
• Maintain training and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents.
• Deliver results against annually provided SMART KPI’s.

QUALIFIED CANDIDATES MUST BE ABLE TO PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THIS POSITION SATISFACTORILY WITH OR WITHOUT A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION. DISCLAIMER: THIS JOB POST IS NOT NECESSARILY AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF ALL ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES, SKILLS, TASKS, OR REQUIREMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS POSITION. WHILE THIS IS INTENDED TO BE AN ACCURATE REFLECTION OF THE POSITION POSTED, THE COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MODIFY OR CHANGE THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB BASED ON BUSINESS NECESSITY. WE WILL CONSIDER FOR EMPLOYMENT ALL QUALIFIED APPLICANTS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH A CRIMINAL HISTORY (INCLUDING RELEVANT DRIVING HISTORY), IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAWS, INCLUDING THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES’ FAIR CHANCE INITIATIVE FOR HIRING ORDINANCE, THE SAN FRANCISCO FAIR CHANCE ORDINANCE, AND THE NEW YORK FAIR CHANCE ACT.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Foodbuy maintains a drug-free workplace.