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Purchasing Manager

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Markham, Canada The Foray Group Full time

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

Wholesome Kids Catering is a market leading catering company that provides healthy, delicious, child-friendly meals, and snacks to childcare centres and schools. Our caring, experienced staff are passionate about providing great food and great service to all our customers. Our culture is one where we value trusted partnerships, enable growth and the ability to excel and be fully engaged, value integrity and focus on making an impact on our clients, customers, co-workers, and communities.

Wholesome Kids Catering has had double digit growth over the last 5 years and our priority for the next five years is to continue growth in both core and new business platforms which will leverage the available capacity in our state-of-the-art custom designed facility and will deliver on the overall strategic long-term revenue and profit goals of the business. As we nourish children with wholesome food to help them grow and thrive in the GTHA, we would love you to join us and become a part of our dynamic team.

**THE ROLE**

The Purchasing Manager is responsible for leading, mentoring and performance managing the Purchasing and Inventory Coordinator to ensure proper inventory is ordered on time, received and available for production. The Purchasing Manager is responsible for ensuring that all purchasing contracts are monitored, kept up to date, pricing accuracy, rebates accuracy and to drive cost reduction through vendor management RFP and other CI activities. This person will be responsible for recruiting, orientating, training, managing and motivating their team to achieve the results.

As the Purchasing Manager, you have a crucial role in leading and mentoring the Purchasing and Inventory Coordinator, ensuring the timely procurement, receipt, and availability of proper inventory for production. Your responsibilities extend beyond managing inventory to encompass monitoring and updating purchasing contracts, ensuring pricing and rebate accuracy, actively driving cost reduction through effective vendor management, Request for Pricing (RFP) processes, and other Continuous Improvement (CI) activities. Additionally, you play a vital part in the recruitment, orientation, training, management, and motivating you to Serve with Passion and empowering them to achieve exceptional results by contributing to a high-performing procurement department. By fostering supplier relationships, optimizing inventory management, implementing risk management strategies, driving continuous improvement initiatives, analyzing data, and generating insightful reports, you will help shape efficient procurement operations and contribute to the overall success and will Nurture Growth of the organization.

**SUCCESS**

**EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE**
- College diploma or University degree; or an equivalent combination of related experience and education
- Procurement certificate is preferred
- Minimum of 5 - 7 years of direct supervisory work experience in a larger scale food production facility
- Minimum of 5 - 7 years of industry experience as Purchasing Manager in a larger scale food production facility
- Knowledge of HACCP, GMP and Provincial Safety Regulations
- Advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Working knowledge with ERP or JF / MS NAV system experience an asset
- Strong command of English language (written and verbal
- Fluency with Technology

**SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES**

A Can-Do Attitude:

- Plays to Win
- Respectful of others and self
- Models and upholds the company’s charter and values
- Represents the company in a professional manner
- Displays a high level of Integrity

Personal Style:

- Ability to think critically, problem-solve, and make effective decisions
- Strong ability to train new employees and transfer knowledge in a patient and consistent manner
- Ability to lead, motivate, coach, mentor and resolve employee conflicts
- Ability to improvise within a tight shipping deadline
- Service, Quality & Cost Oriented
- Represents the company in a professional manner
- Ability to consistently meet targets and deadlines
- Growth Mindset
- Values and seeks feedback from others

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Team Management**
- Oversee inventory control level and processes
- Communicate to production on changes as a result of purchases and shortages for production and Shipping.
- Responsible for staff planning, scheduling and working hours recording
- Maintaining a regular cadence with the team (huddles, meetings, 121s)
- Manage performance through performance review process and coaching

**Continuous Improvement**
- Focusing on CI initiatives and ensuring that this is happening regularly; and that CI initiatives are brought forward on a regular basis
- Leveraging technology, systems, cost and productivity efficiency
- Fluency with technology
- Implement action plans to address any challenges in the purchasing of raw materials and supplier management

**Menu Development**
- Participate in