Buyer 2 - Ripon (Finance)
An industry leader, The Wine Group is one of the world's foremost producers of award-winning wines across more than 60 wine brands and many winery facilities in California, New York, and Australia. Headquartered in Livermore, California, TWG is an industry innovator when it comes to developing, marketing, and selling wine brands beloved by consumers around the world, including Cupcake, Franzia, Benziger, Imagery, Tribute, 7 Deadly, Cooper & Thief, The Dreaming Tree, Charles Smith Wines, and more. The Wine Group believes in producing wine using sustainable and earth-friendly practices to foster healthy land and agriculture for generations to come. The company demonstrates environmental stewardship through its commitment to clean energy and by ensuring that all its owned vineyards are certified sustainable or biodynamic. To learn more, please visit: www.thewinegroup.com.
JOB SUMMARY
The primary role of this Supply Chain position is to coordinate the procurement process for packaging materials in support of The Wine Group's bottling operations. This entails detailed item creation through specification development and artwork management, as well as the identification of requirements through inventory management and demand planning, and the creation, execution, and tracking of purchase order activity.
The specific commodity responsibilities will be predefined with potential annual rotation as necessary. Additionally, this role will be called upon to assist in the identification, development, and management of innovative, non-standard materials, and co-packer assimilation and management.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Supply Management
- Manage TWG MRP materials process for assigned commodities, identifying requirements when comparing inventory against scheduled bottling activity.
- Create and track purchase orders as required, tracking delivery dates against manufacturing goals.
- Liaise with Suppliers, and internal planning and manufacturing groups in order to align deliveries to unanticipated schedule volatility.
- Respond to requests from Accounts Payable to resolve invoice discrepancies and explain variances.
- Update Cost Accounting with pricing changes.
- Function as backup for other commodities as necessary.
- Specification Management
- Maintain, audit and update packaging database.
- Coordinate and track specification revision activity.
- Provide commodity specific consultancy to internal groups (Marketing/Designers/Warehouse) relative to materials' functionality and suitability for purpose.
- Support Product Development through new product launches, packaging changes, and materials discontinuance.
- Quality
- Partner with TWG Quality Assurance to address packaging non-conformance issues.
- Partner with TWG Quality Assurance to manage the testing and qualification of new packaging materials.
- Innovation
- Drive the identification and evaluation of non-standard packaging.
- Maintain packaging Database of Innovation, proactively managing existing and potential Suppliers to leverage their experience and field expertise.
- Identify co-packer partners as necessary, coordinating assimilation into TWG processes on approved projects, from product development through invoice payment.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Three to five years of experience within Supply Chain, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Distribution, or Finance.
- CPG and/or wine industry experience preferred.
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Suite: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
- Experience using JD Edwards or comparable ERP software.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Primary work activities are within an office environment.
COMPENSATION
- Hiring Salary Range Posted: $68,640 - $97,300.
- Actual compensation will be based on factors such as experience; skills, knowledge, and abilities; education; and other position related factors.
At The Wine Group, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristic protected by law.
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