Strategic Food Service Procurement Lead

Performance Foodservice; New Windsor (MD); On-site; USD 83,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits from Day 1

401K employer matching

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Performance Foodservice is seeking an on-site Purchasing Manager to manage customer relations, purchasing and financial management for a product category. You will coordinate buying, selling and merchandising with vendors and distributors, aiming for high in-stock levels, strong margins, and superior customer satisfaction.

You will lead inventory strategy, address slow-moving items, negotiate terms, and work with Accounts Payable to ensure accurate vendor bill backs.

Qualifications

• Required Education: High School Diploma/GED or Equivalent Experience
• Required Experience: 3-5 years Foodservice distribution and purchasing experience

Responsibilities

• Maintain optimal inventory levels to meet customers’ needs.
• Own strategy to ensure in-stock performance while managing shelf life, freshness, and yield risk.
• Proactively address slow-moving, aging, and dead inventory through consolidation, substitution, or liquidation strategies.
• Monitor and resolve over-committed, urgent, and at-risk items, including buyer outs, short-dated product, and receiving discrepancies.
• Review over-committed, urgent items, buyer’s outs, stock adjustments, receiving discrepancies, and sales below cost reports.
• Negotiate buy brackets, inbound freight rates, backhaul dollars, cash discounts, extended terms, and earned income.
• Process returns to vendors including entering vendor bill backs before merchandise leaves our buildings.
• Continuously evaluate assortment and supplier base, consolidating low-volume SKUs and underperforming vendors while identifying opportunities for private lab and customer-driven substitutions that protect margin.

Education

High School Diploma/GED or Equivalent Experience

Job description

Performance Foodservice is seeking an on-site Purchasing Manager to manage customer relations, purchasing and financial management for a product category. You will coordinate buying, selling and merchandising with vendors and distributors, aiming for high in-stock levels, strong margins, and superior customer satisfaction.

You will lead inventory strategy, address slow-moving items, negotiate terms, and work with Accounts Payable to ensure accurate vendor bill backs.