Is this Opportunity for You? - Are you passionate about building strong partnerships, maximizing food resources, and ensuring nutritious food reaches neighbors in need? As a Food Procurement & Inventory Manager, you will play a critical role in securing, managing, and optimizing the food supply that supports our mission to fight hunger. Through strategic sourcing, inventory management, and collaboration with donors, vendors, and internal teams, you will help ensure that healthy, nutritious food is available when and where it is needed most. Join our team and be part of an organization dedicated to fighting hunger and creating a healthier, more vibrant community for all. Your expertise, leadership, and commitment can make a lasting difference in the lives of those we serve.
About the Organization: As a member of Feeding America and a United Way Member Agency, Feeding the Gulf Coast works through member organizations and special programs to provide nutritious food to meet the challenge of feeding people who are hungry as a result of systemic poverty, personal crisis, or disaster. Additionally, Feeding the Gulf Coast educates the public regarding domestic hunger, proper nutrition and other related issues. Feeding the Gulf Coast serves a 24-county area spanning south Alabama, south Mississippi, and the Florida Panhandle.
Summary: Oversees the sourcing and procurement of food products to maintain a diverse inventory, ensuring consistency and availability for distribution. Responsible for advising on FTGC's overall food sourcing plan and providing reports and analyses to support it. Responsible for maintaining clean record-keeping and submitting invoices in accordance with Feeding the Gulf Coast’s accounting standards. Support inventory accountability via cycle counts and monthly inventory, etc. Ensure compliance with all FTGC, USDA, Feeding America, AIB, and other required compliance standards.
Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Acquires food and non-food products as budgeted to provide balanced options for distribution across the tri-state service area
- Manages the inventory intake process, including scheduling of inbound logistics
- Ensure compliance with all FTGC, USDA, Feeding America, AIB, and other required compliance standards
- Prepares Government Commodities including Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) and Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) required paperwork and reports and collaborates with colleagues to ensure compliance with product handling requirements.
- Conducts frequent data analysis related to procurement, inventory, and additional measures and metrics intended to inform KPIs. Responsible for preparing data driven visual aids to inform Leadership.
- Conduct periodic inventory, cycle counts. and other inventory spot checks, tracking consistency and product turns.
- Collaborates with Leadership to set pricing, product limits, and controls.
- Identifies and ensures appropriate allocation of fair share products.
- Responsible for compliance with food sourcing grant requirements, including adherence to the budget, quoting product as required, and complying with reporting and distribution guidelines
- Responsible for all product recall processes and procedures, including maintaining records of relevant product recall notices.
- Proficiency in data management and analytical software, with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies. Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (particularly advanced Excel functions such as pivot tables), Google Workspace (Gmail, Google Sheets), Looker Studio, Crystal Reports, Tableau, and ERP systems.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
Language Ability:Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of an organization.
Math Ability:Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability:Ability to solve practical problems and deal with various concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret various instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Computer Skills:To perform this job successfully, an individual should have advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite and Google Gmail and also have knowledge of Excel (pivot tables), Google Sheets, Data Studio, Crystal Reports, Tableau, and Enterprise Resource Planning Software (Primarius 2)
Education/Experience:Bachelor's degree (B. A. / B. S.) or four to six years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Certificates and Licenses:Valid driver's license with a driving record that meets company insurance requirements
Knowledge, Skills and Other Abilities:
- Time management
- Oral and written communication skills
- Professionalism
- Negotiation skills
- Knowledge of food products
- Analytical skills
- Proficiency with spreadsheets and raw data analysis via pivot tables
- Budget management
- Attention to detail
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus, and ability to see color.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to outdoor weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather); extreme cold (non-weather); fumes or airborne particles, and vibration.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Pay: $48,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Proficient in excel and pivot tables required.
Experience:
- Inventory management: 2 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
