Buyer, Supply Chain/Logistics
Listed on 2026-10-02
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Supply Chain/Logistics
Supply Chain & Logistics, Inventory Control & Analysis, Logistics Coordination
Department: Clackamas Purchasing
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Clackamas
DescriptionAt Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members' personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy:
Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.
Summary:
A Buyer at Pacific Seafood is a key role on our Procurement team supporting efforts to maintain and optimize inventory and coordinate logistics. This position involves maintaining inventory levels, coordinating freight, and assisting inventory and buying teams and is ideal for someone who has analytical skills, organizational skills, and is detail orientated.
- Attend daily inventory meetings
- Manage stock items and communicate updates, including new, discontinued, and changes in product and packaging technologies
- Maintain cost fields for stock items in AS400
- Develop weekly sales forecasts and purchase products accordingly to meet inventory requirements
- Work with sales team to analyze market conditions and competitive activity
- Assist in developing sales and market plans
- Utilize supplier lead times to maximize company advantages
- Respond to sales requests for research and sourcing new products
- Ensure adherence to delivery schedules by-product transport carriers
- Prepare purchase orders for daily receiving and provide transportation instructions
- Track freight and confirm purchase orders for inbound shipments
- Cross-train with buyers and inventory control for coverage
- Update bid sheets and handle various accounts in sales
- Print and distribute daily fresh product information
- Answer telephones and assist with inquiries
Additional responsibilities may be assigned as deemed necessary to support the overall goals and objectives of the position.
What you bring to Pacific SeafoodEducation and Experience
- Required
- Bachelor’s degree in business or another related field
- Minimum two years’ experience as a buyer
- Preferred
- Strong computer skills with the Microsoft Office Suite, primarily Word and Excel
- Work experience in the food industry
- Sedentary work, walking and standing are required only occasionally.
- Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Fingering. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
- Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
- Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Office, as well as warehouse environment.
- Moderate noise level in the work environment.
- Plant exposure to wet, cold, and/or humid temperatures.
- Standard office equipment and heavy machinery.
Total compensation:
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