Inventory Buyer
About the role
About Us
Odeko is the all-in-one operations and technology partner to more than 20,000 independent coffee shops, cafes and other food establishments.
Through the Odeko web portal and mobile app, customers can purchase supplies from hundreds of national and local brands, track ordering trends, finance equipment, and access insurance. Customers that use Odeko can increase their revenue, reduce their environmental footprint, and save significantly on their cost of goods and time spent on vendor management.
Odeko is on a mission to continuously develop technology to champion your neighborhood cafes, coffee shops, and other independent F&B establishments.
Local coffee shops and cafes are the backbone of any given community, and we’re here to help manage the day-to-day tasks with a platform so intuitive, it’s kinda like magic.
The Odeko team is diverse, passionate, and innovative. Our 400+ employees are spread across numerous departments and business lines, but are single-minded in our mission to develop technology to support the many needs of our customers. We believe that small businesses need support now more than ever, and that Odeko is uniquely positioned to provide that support.
Inventory Buyer
As an Inventory Buyer, dedicated to supporting multiple warehouses in our network, you will own procurement responsibilities including purchasing, forecasting, inventory management, purchase order management and vendor management of 3rd party service providers. You will provide procurement insights and align with the building leadership team as well as local sales teams to drive efficiencies and improvements at the site(s). This is a remote position with minimal travel; and ideal candidates will be based in the DC metro area or Nashville, TN.
Main Responsibilities
- In partnership with the Procurement Operations Manager, provide procurement operations support including: purchasing of inventory products, inventory management, non-inventory flow and space models, cycle counts, supplier management, procurement transaction and expediting support
- Develop deep knowledge of inventory items and align with like buildings to drive best practices
- Manage KPIs like inventory shrink, out of stocks, inventory turns, new item creations, and gross profit margins.
- Develop relationship across the building and network to ensure best practices are being shared and implemented
- Align with internal customers, Finance and Procurement Operations to understand budgetary targets by building and develop methods of measuring and defining savings, value and other category metrics
- Work in partnership both internally and with suppliers to develop innovative solutions to provide Procurement support to the Operations network
- Develop and implement ways to measure suppliers to drive continuous performance improvement
Basic Qualifications
- 1-2+ years of experience in supply chain operations
- Strong analytics and mathematics background