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Purchasing Manager - Grains and Feed Ingredients (5737BR) - (Bellevue, Washington, West United States, USA)
Company: Land O'Lakes
Website: http://www.landolakesinc.com
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Open Til: 20-Dec-09
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: General
Career Type: General
Job Type: Full Time
Minimum Years Experience Required: N/A
Salary: TBD

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AutoReqId: 5737BR

Job Title: Purchasing Manager - Grains and Feed Ingredients

Career Category: Procurement/Risk Management

Location of Position - State and City: WA - Bellevue

Department Name: Procurement

Business Unit: Feed

Business Unit Description:
Land O’Lakes Purina Feed LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Land O’Lakes Inc, is North America’s leading feed company, providing producers, cooperatives and dealers with an extensive line of animal feed, ingredients and services.

Position Purpose:
As a Purchasing Manager, you are responsible for the procurement of macro and micro ingredients for the Land O'Lakes Purina Feed LLC Pacific Northwest manufacturing plants .

Key responsibilities include:

o Developing procurement strategies in support of business objectives.

o Managing vendor performance and relationships.

o Negotiation and administration of purchase contracts.

o Implementing risk management initiatives.

o Conducting market analysis and communicating market trends to business partners.

o Achieving financial, operational and quality results.

o Supervision of procurement staff.

Required (Basic) Experience & Education:
o Bachelors Degree in Agriculture, Agribusiness or Business.

0 5+ years experience in grain procurement or feed ingredient merchandising.

o 3+ years supervisor experience.

Required Competencies & Other Skills:
o Background in procurement, feed ingredient merchandising or related business.

o Strong knowledge of cash commodity markets , basis and the use of CME futures and options as hedging tools.

o Demonstrated negotiation skills.

o Knowledge of processing operations requirements.

o Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.

o Effective presentation skills.

o Demonstrated supervisory and leadership experience.

o Excellent oral and written communication skills.

o Effective use of office technology (MS Office).

o Ability to effectively interface with all levels of management.