About Global Food Solutions:
Global Food Solutions is a progressive foodservice partner that is uniquely positioned to create affordable and inspired foods for commercial and institutional foodservice operators.
Starting from humble roots in our home in 2004, we had a vision that would change how we looked at the next 20 years. We believed we could change the way people looked at, thought about, and purchased their favorite foods, and we were passionate about feeding students across America.
Our team members make a difference for millions of students daily around the country. If you are ready to grow your career with an industry leader in the K-12 food space and want to positively impact the team and community around you, then join us in helping raise the bar in how our world thinks about food.
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Internal Operations Manager (Externally Focused)Location: 131 Heartland Blvd, Edgewood, NY 11717 Full/Part Time: Full Time Required On-Site / Work Remote: On-site preferred with availability to discuss flexible work remote Hours: 8am – 4pm. Flexible start and end time available Travel: Not required The Position Serves: The Internal Operations Manager (Externally Focused) position will be working with our customer service and operations team in support of our customers, vendors, and operations. This role will be the key to our understanding of shipments and orders. Responsibilities will include a full range of activities including working with customers, vendors, and logistics providers. This is a fast-paced role with many changing and moving parts as we continue to grow and scale as a company. Attention to detail is a must for this position. The ideal candidate for the position of Internal Operations Manager is… A problem-solver who will play a critical role in defining our order process and flow. A leader that will have a significant impact on our business’ internal operations. A positive influencer that will improve the way the company operates in order to amplify the impact in our customer service and internal operations divisions. Candidates must have strong technological skills, as well as communication and problem-solving skills. Functional Responsibilities: Receive orders from customers and ensure they are placed in accordance with our shipping process, procures, and order quantities into our ERP system (NetSuite). Entering orders into our internal ERP system. Placing orders through our ERP system to vendors. Confirming proper pricing on all orders based on regional/bid/special pricing with customers. Managing open orders with customers and vendors. Managing specific shipments that require the use of our third-party logistics company LineCor. Must possess excellent follow-up and tracking skills. This role has many moving parts and candidates must follow up and close out all orders properly. Understand when to escalate customer concerns or how-to problem solve customer and vendor concerns independently. Relationship Management Responsibilities: Liaise and collaborate between key stakeholders (internally with the team, externally with customers and vendors). Cultivate strong business relationships by demonstrating an understanding of related processes. Requirements: Education & Experience: Requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a Bachelors's degree or equivalent. A University/College degree is an asset but not required. Degree desired in Supply Chain Management or Business Administration Five (5) years plus, work experience in direct procurement and supply chain management in food, beverage, or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries. Computer Skills: Standard computer skills; experience in Microsoft Office applications (or equivalent products) Zoom (or equivalent products) Zoho (or equivalent products) DropBox (or equivalent products) NetSuite (or equivalent ERP systems) Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written skills; ability to provide clear updates both internally to the team and externally to customers/vendors. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to tell the “story.” Experience communicating technical information to stakeholders, peers, management, and non-technical team members. Experience communicating functional requirements to highly technical team members. Ability to work collaboratively and effectively across the team with a growth mindset and propensity towards action and learning. Ability to work independently and set priorities based on key milestones, impact on strategic initiatives, and high-level direction of management. Ability to handle many projects simultaneously in a high-paced environment. Special Skills: Knowledge of merchandising practices and flexible contract pricing methods Analytics and reporting Preferred Skills: Product knowledge Data entry skills Organization Analyzing information Verbal communication Managing processes Customer focus Multi-tasking Maintains customer satisfaction by providing problem-solving resources Answers customers’ questions Strong decision-making skills Strong adoption to change in technology Benefits: Health Insurance Paid Time Off
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Internal Operations Manager (Internally Focused)Job Title: Internal Operations Manager (Internally Focused) Location: 131 Heartland Blvd, Edgewood, NY 11717 Full/Part Time: Full Time Required On-Site / Work Remote: On-site preferred with availability to discuss flexible work remote Hours: 8am – 4pm. Flexible start and end time available Travel: Limited to Lower NY and NJ. Limited trips per year The Position Serves: The Internal Operations Manager (Internally Focused) position will be working with our customer service and operations team in support of our vendors, operations, and partner production facilities. This role will be the key to our understanding of shipments, orders, inventory, and production flow at external production facilities. Responsibilities will include a full range of activities from working with vendors, logistics providers, and contracted production facilities. This is a fast-paced role with many changing and moving parts on an ongoing basis as we continue to grow and scale. Attention to detail is a must for this role. The ideal candidate for the position of Internal Operations Manager (Internally Focused) is… A problem-solver who will play a critical role in defining our order process and flow. A leader that will have a significant impact on our business’ internal operations. A positive influencer that will improve the way the company operates in order to amplify the impact in our customer service and internal operations divisions. Candidates must have strong technological skills, as well as communication and problem-solving skills. Functional Responsibilities: Placing purchase orders for goods into our internal ERP system (NetSuite) and send to external vendors Manage communication and order flow between external vendors, external production facilitates, and third-party logistics providers Place work orders to external production facilities based on forecasts and sales orders Management of work orders at different production locations Ability to review and manage inventory at multiple locations externally Management of 5 inventory locations with an approximate 50 goods per location Receive and fulfill orders into and out of our inventory Forward and manage orders sent to a third-party logistics provider Place, manage and execute inventory transfers with the operations team to ensure proper inventory values and goods for production at external facilities Ensure all inventory is correct with hard counts and manage inventory adjustments to ensure proper order schedule, production, forecasting, purchasing Confirming proper pricing on all purchase orders based on regional/bid/special pricing with customers Managing open work orders with external production facilities Managing open purchase orders for various goods from different vendors Managing specific shipments that require the use of our third-party logistics company LineCor Must possess excellent follow-up and tracking skills. This role has many moving parts and candidate must follow up and close out all orders properly Understand when to escalate vendor concerns or how-to problem solve concerns independently Relationship Management Responsibilities: Liaise and collaborate between key stakeholders (internally with the team, externally with vendors, and contracted production facilities). Cultivate strong business relationships by demonstrating an understanding of related processes. Requirements: Education & Experience: Requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a Bachelors's degree or equivalent. A University/College degree is an asset but not required. Degree desired in Supply Chain Management or Business Administration Five (5) years plus, work experience in direct procurement and supply chain management in food, beverage or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries Computer Skills: Standard computer skills; experience in Microsoft Office applications (or equivalent products) Zoom (or equivalent products) Zoho (or equivalent products) DropBox (or equivalent products) NetSuite (or equivalent ERP systems) Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written skills; ability to provide clear updates both internally to the team and externally to customer/vendors Excellent verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to tell the “story.” Experience communicating technical information to stakeholders, peers, management, and non-technical team members. Experience communicating functional requirements to highly technical team members. Ability to work collaboratively and effectively across the team with a growth mindset and propensity towards action and learning Ability to work independently and set priorities based on key milestones, impact to strategic initiatives and high-level direction of management Ability to handle many projects simultaneously in a high-paced environment Special Skills: Knowledge of merchandising practices and flexible contract pricing methods Analytics and reporting Preferred Skills: Product knowledge Data entry skills Organization Analyzing information Verbal communication Managing processes Customer focus Multi-tasking Maintains customer satisfaction by providing problem-solving resources Answers customers’ questions Strong decision-making skills Strong adoption to change in technology Benefits: Health Insurance Paid Time Off