Crop/Vendor Procurement Job at Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC, Watertown, SD

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  • Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC
  • Watertown, SD

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

We are passionate about our work and take great pride in consistently providing safe, premium-quality non-GMO, organic, and gluten-free pulses, grains, seeds, flax, and expeller oils to the food and pet food industries.

Our ingredients are found in many of your favorite brands on grocery store shelves. We are driven to make healthy ingredients more accessible globally. We actively explore ways to expand our ingredients and their applications through innovation and strategic partnerships.

Curious about the food industry? Join the HFI family and help feed the world.

Learn and grow with us! No experience necessary - we provide training and support for your success.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

This position works under the supervision of the Farm Sourcing Lead and Procurement and Operations Director. Crop/Vendor Procurement will be responsible for procuring identified specialty non-GMO and organic crops from growers and vendors to meet our customers’ needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

  • Develop relationships with growers/vendors of assigned products.
  • Understand the complexity of each crop assigned (i.e., growing conditions, planting dates, harvest dates, cost of the product, market analysis and trend of each product, etc.)
  • Conduct face-to-face and farm visitation with contract growers/vendors.
  • Attend domestic trade shows.
  • Provide timely pricing to sales personnel of assigned portfolio.
  • Provide written reports to the supervisor and other HFI personnel as requested.
  • Work across other internal departments including Logistics, HFI Facilities, Accounting, Sales, and Quality
  • Perform monthly inventory review.
  • Manage forward contracting and spot purchasing.
  • Negotiate and manage contracts.
  • Work with other purchasing and crop production team members’ portfolios when necessary or as back-up.
  • Maintain positions for assigned products.
  • Maintain other records as needed.

Requirements:
  • Well organized with attention to detail.
  • Excellent written and verbal skills.
  • Must be able to work in a team environment.
  • Experience in specialty crops and grain procurement preferred.
  • Willing to travel within North America.
  • Ability to make decisions.
  • Self-starter.

Job Tags

Contract work,

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