Our client, a manufacturing company located in Bay Shore, NY is looking for a Senior Buyer to join their team.
What you will do in this role:
- Develop and execute procurement strategies for raw materials, including proteins, flours, oils, and other high-value ingredients.
- Source, negotiate, and manage supplier contracts, pricing, terms, and supply commitments across two manufacturing locations.
- Maintain forward-looking purchasing plans aligned with production forecasts, lead times, commodity markets, and contract cycles.
- Monitor commodity markets and market intelligence to drive purchasing decisions, mitigate supply risk, and identify cost savings and total cost improvements.
- Partner with R&D on SKU rationalization, ingredient consolidation, product launches, and formulation changes.
- Manage inventory across manufacturing sites and 3PLs, including safety stock, lot traceability, FIFO, aging inventory, cycle counts, and reconciliations.
- Lead month-end procurement activities, including PO accruals, receipt reconciliation, vendor statements, spend reporting, and forecast-to-actual analysis.
- Build strong supplier and logistics partnerships while driving cost savings, freight/landed-cost optimization, service levels, supply continuity, and procurement KPIs.
What you will bring to the role:
- 10+ years of experience in ingredient purchasing, commodity procurement, or sourcing within food manufacturing or CPG.
- Strong category expertise in proteins, flours, oils, and commodity-based ingredients.
- Proven success with supplier negotiations, contract management, and commodity price exposure.
- Experience with ERP systems for purchasing, inventory, and financial reconciliation; Aptean is a plus.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, VLOOKUPs, data analysis, and modeling.
- Experience with month-end close, PO reconciliation, cost variance reporting, and multi-site procurement/inventory management; import, landed cost, and tariff knowledge preferred.
- Strong analytical, organizational, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently.
- Fully onsite in Bay Shore, NY, Monday–Friday, with approximately 10% travel; food safety/supplier qualification knowledge (SQF, BRC, or equivalent) preferred.
What our client is offering:
- A competitive salary and full medical/health benefits for the employee and their family.
- The chance to join a growing company with a great work environment.
If you feel that this role would be a good fit for you, please submit your resume today in MS Word format – Don’t forget to include your accomplishments and achievements.
Pay: $100,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Willing to Travel 10% of the time
Experience:
- ingredient purchasing: 10 years (Preferred)
- commodity procurement: 10 years (Preferred)
- food manufacturing or CPG : 10 years (Preferred)
- Buyer: 10 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
