Senior Originator

Job description

The Senior Originator role is a buyer position responsible for purchasing commodities from producer customers and maintaining and enhancing grower relationships. This role will strive to drive cost efficiency in purchasing decisions, utilize and enhance marketing services to producers, accurately purchase the correct commodity specifications to contribute to market share gains. Originators contribute to the daily operations and provide support for the department to maximize efficiencies that will directly contribute to the profitability of Scoular by working collaboratively with the purchasing team. This role will partner closely with the logistics team, accounting team, merchandisers and facility/plant staff. - Make buying decisions and develop strong working relationships with producers. - Partner with merchandising team to plan, develop and implement purchasing strategies and tactics. - Knowledgeable of Scoular's risk management tools and digital interaction tools. - Understand local producer trends and communicate updates and insights to broader team. - Manage IP program purchases, and production based purchase contracts. - Execution of purchase contracts with accurate document...