What are the responsibilities and job description for the Procurement Specialist position at CONAGRA?
Position Responsibilities
- Ensure materials are available by converting requisitions to purchase orders (POs) with vendors on time, ensuring confirmation and acceptable shipping dates.
- Expedite materials as needed.
- Oversight of the storeroom staffing and scheduling.
- Reduction of excess and obsolete material.
- Maintains professional relationship with internal and external customers and suppliers.
- Represent the organization as the primary purchasing contact on assigned contracts/subcontracts.
- Maintenance of SAP past due open transactions and vendors’ info records.
- Maintenance of blocked invoices.
- Set up new vendors according to vendor master procedure.
- Investigate and resolve billing discrepancies following corporate A/P policies and procedures.
- Communicate all delays or variances of inbound freight to the appropriate parties.
- Request cycle counts of MRO items, reconciliation, and receiving.
- Provides SAP training for plant MRO procurement peers and cross functional team members on MRO related best practices.
- Ensure that proper documentation of the purchase is included in accordance with policies and procedures.
- Manage month-end close, to include running and analyzing the open PO report, and running other reports as needed.
Other duties as assigned.
Position Qualifications
- Knowledge of VMI programs, both from an implementation and tracking standpoint.
- Demonstrated ability to accurately calculate, post, correct, and manage finances allocated to the supply of materials while operating within a budget.
- Able to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing.
- Sound analytical thinking, planning, prioritization, and execution skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team is essential.
- Ability to manage multiple projects.
- Able to maintain confidential information
- Minimum of one-year experience desired with SAP.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience purchasing, indirect buying, negotiations, and finance.
Our Benefits:
We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:
- Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life, accident and disability insurance
- Wealth: great pay, incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
- Growth: online courses, virtual and classroom development experiences
- Balance: paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role)
Our Company:
Conagra Brands is one of North America's leading branded food companies. We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team that’s passionate about innovation and growth. Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, and emerging brands, including Angie's® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke's®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®.
We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.
Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law.
