Musgrave is one of the Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation, supporting communities across the island of Ireland and Spain.
Every day we feed one in three people in Ireland through 11 market leading food and beverage brands that include SuperValu, Centra, Frank and Honest and Musgrave Market Place.
We support thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses who live and work in the heart of the communities they serve.
We are committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland and we are making changes across the company to make sure that happens. We want to make a positive impact on the world and we will support our suppliers and customers to make a difference too.
Our people are the heart of our business. As our greatest asset, they make Musgrave a great place to work and in return we aim to be the very best place to work, grow and thrive. We are now inviting applications for the position of a reorder buyer to join the team on a permanent contract.
The purpose of the role is to ensure supply of goods to meet the needs of our Marketplace retail and food service customers. You will be responsible for all products which are available to purchase through the MNI warehouse to include ambient, chill, frozen and alcohol categories.
Area of Responsibility: Effective stock management
Effective stock management of product range in line with Supply Chain departmental KPI’s.
Key Activities:
* Work collaboratively with Trading and Logistics colleagues as well as suppliers to ensure departmental KPI’s are achieved using appropriate experience and systems.
* Manage Inbound & Outbound service levels to meet the demands of our customer.
* Maintain product and supplier information.
* Placing orders and maintaining strong working relationships with suppliers to ensure stock levels are sufficient to meet promotional and core demand.
* Liaise with “Goods In” and warehouse operations as required to ensure stock is received on specific dates required.
* Analysing system generated reports to ensure stock levels and service level performance are on track with escalation of any non-conformances accordingly.
* Use of MDS and Power BI data system to accurately forecast stock requirements for promotions and seasonal periods.
* Ensure that Intercompany and Bulk orders are placed and scheduled for delivery to customers.
* Managing inbound volumes to ensure workload is balanced across the week and that the warehouse capacity is not breached.
* Manage stock in line with KPI targets ensuring overstocks are actioned and stock is replenished as required.
* Authorise stock for bulk customer orders while ensuring availability for other customers.
* Performance reporting on a daily and weekly basis to indicate individual and departmental performance against targets.
* Support to the rest of the Supply Chain Re-Order team as required during busy periods / holidays / absence / stocktakes.
Area of Responsibility: Managing Suppliers
* Monitoring supplier service levels on a daily/weekly basis.
* Establish good working relationships with key personnel from each supplier.
* Collaborative working with suppliers to ensure that inbound service level performance is maintained.
* Use of escalation process (both internal and external) to deal with poor performance and ensure corrective action is agreed and implemented.
Area of Responsibility: Interfacing with other Departments & Customers
* Develop robust working relationships cross functionally e.g. Logistics, Trading, Sales, Operations etc.
* Keeping other Departments and Customers up to date with any current or potential interruptions to supply.
* Respond to customer queries via Remedy system within agreed deadlines with sufficient information to satisfy the customer’s query.
Experience, Skills and Education
* Previous experience in a similar role (within FMCG)
* Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, supply chain software systems and processes
* Strong analytical and numerical skills
* Ability to work in a fast moving and dynamic environment
* Ability to organise self to achieve goals
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to deal with customer queries and build strong working relationships cross functionally and with suppliers.
Musgrave is an equal opportunities employer.
We encourage applications from diverse candidates. If we can make any accommodations to enable you to be the best version of yourself during the interview, please let us know.
Musgrave operates a Work Smarter hybrid working model where you can alternate your time between connecting and collaborating in the business and working remotely. Occasional business travel to other locations will also be required.
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