Purchasing Manager - Mississauga, Canada - Red Swan Pizza

Description

Swan Pizza Limited operates pizza restaurant franchise system under trade name "Red Swan Pizza". We are the new standard for pizza with 120+ locations all over Canada. Fresh and diverse meals that blow away your expectations made from innovative recipes with quality ingredients.

At Swan Pizza Limited, we provide great work environment while treating employees with dignity and respect. We embrace diversity as an essential component in the way that we do business. We apply the highest standards of excellence to our food, production, preparation, training, and service to customers. We are building long-lasting relationships with our valued customers, ensuring every potential customer can order a great meal regardless of their dietary preferences.

At Red Swan Pizza, you will help us carry out our mission to satisfy customer cravings by creating and serving a wide variety of deliciously different pizzas with quick service, quality ingredients, reasonable prices, and unbeatable value.

Position Summary:

The person in this position will negotiate and deal for sourcing food inventory with producers (or vendors) and bring competitive pricing for Red Swan Pizza. Works in collaboration with the operation team to drive profitability and enhance the sales growth of restaurants across Canada.

Essentials Functions

• Negotiate the food procurement deal with different vendors.
• Contract review and formulation with distribution partners
• Search new vendors for the procurement.
• Develop Procurement strategies for reducing the food cost.
• Assist the operation team with SOP developments.
• Engaging with restaurant partners for the operations
• Collaborates with suppliers to solve quality and/or service problems; expedites deliveries as necessary.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Knowledge in food industry and buying food from the producers/farmers, markets, or processing firms.
• Human Relations - ability to work in teams, interact with others across departments/roles, develop relationships, etc.
• Self Management - self-directed with the ability to deal with distraction, repetition, prioritization, fluctuations in workload, ambiguity, etc.
• Mathematical - knowledge of basic math (addition, subtraction, multiply, divide and percentages). Communication - excellent written, verbal, organizational and communication skills.
• Time Management - the ability to multi-task, prioritize, and execute efficient work processes.
• Supply Chain Management - knowledge of principles and methods for moving goods.
• Customer Service - knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer service. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Knowledge of food raw materials, manufacturers, producers etc.
• Problem Solver - ability to problem solve and develop solutions to a variety of complex problems by comparing, classifying, innovating, analyzing, coordinating, copying, etc. May refer to established precedents and policies.``

Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

Required Skills

• Education in supply chain management or equivalent.
• Worked experience of 3-5 years at food service distributor companies or related field.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $72,000-$84,000 per year

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Life Insurance
• Extended health care
• Vision Care
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Mississauga, ON L5N 2V8: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)