Job description

About Us: The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (http://www.chefswarehouse.com) combines exceptional quality and brand building with broadline food service distribution for more than 35 years. With Protein, Specialty, Produce, and Broadline offerings, we service the most discerning chefs in a hybrid approach of convenience and superior quality. We introduce more than 2,000 artisan producers of the world’s finest ingredients from over 40 countries to the finest chefs in the world. We passionately consult, sell, and build relationships with more than 35,000 customers through the most experienced network of over 600 consultive sales associates, best-in-breed technology, rapid service, and support levels that solidify our long-standing ties to both established and up-and-coming premium restaurants.

Mission: The mission of The Chefs’ Warehouse is to provide the world’s greatest ingredients to the world’s best chefs.

Our C.H.E.F.S. Values:
Curious & Creative
Hungry For Food & Results
Entrepreneurial
Forward Thinking & Flexible
Supportive (Of Peers & Chefs)

• Shift from 3am-11am
• Weekly Pay
• Great Benefits

Summary/Objective:
The Purchasing Assistant provides office support to the Purchasing Department with a variety of clerical activities and related tasks. The Purchasing Assistant will be responsible for data entry, creating and generating purchase orders to receipt of inventory and invoice settlement. The Purchasing Assistant aids in the coordination between the sales team, production team, and warehouse team regarding items within our catalogue.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform data entry, tracking issues with specific vendors and communicating findings to buyers.
• Process reminders and order confirmations.
• Preparation and processing of purchase orders and corresponding documents in accordance with company procedures.
• Maintain complete and updated purchasing records/data and pricing.
• Coordinate with suppliers and locations to ensure on-time delivery.
• Provide effective communication regarding accounts payable issues with vendors and staff.
• Assist with filing all documents accordingly.
• Maintain a neat, organized work area.
• Complete various projects thoroughly by assigned deadline

Required, Education and Experience:
Education:
High School Diploma or G.E.D required.

Experience:

• 2+ years of administrative and/or customer service experience required.
• Previous food service distribution and/or food importing experience strongly preferred.
• Advanced Excel Skill and additional Computer skills (JDE, Microsoft Suite – Word and PowerPoint, Canopy, etc.)

Key Competencies:
1. Flexibility.
2. Communication Proficiency.
3. Collaboration Skills.
4. Mathematical Skills.
5. Customer/Client Focus.
6. Technical Capacity.
Beneficial Attributes

• Must have a sense of urgency and be able to work under pressure, be comfortable in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment.
• Flexible with the ability to work well with all departments and levels of staff both internally & externally.

Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 80 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Language Skills:
Ability to read, write and speak fluently in English.

Reasoning Ability:
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.

Work Environment:
This job operates in a professional office environment as well as a refrigerated/frozen warehouse and loading dock . This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:
Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand. Hours per week varies as business demands.

Travel:
No travel is expected in this position. Occasional travel to vendors and processors for educational purposes may be available.

Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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The above job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

Perks & Benefits:

• Paid Vacations, Paid Holidays
• Health, Dental and Medical Benefits
• Weekly pay
• Life Insurance
• 5% above cost for our high-quality food products
• Employee discounts for travel and events
• 401k

The Chefs' Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment. We are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.

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