The Role
Trainees learn warehouse, inventory, transportation, procurement, pricing, product allocation, returns, and vendor/customer relationship management. Responsibilities include routing and dispatch coordination, cycle counting, shortage investigations, backhaul organization, and business development. The role requires strong Microsoft Office and database skills, communication, analytical ability, teamwork, and willingness to work in refrigerated warehouse conditions and rotating or non-standard shifts.
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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
- The warehouse management system: routing and cubing processes for shipping and receiving processes.
- The order selection process and regulations concerning food safety.
- Routing, scheduling, dispatching and check-in procedures for the transportation department.
- Help manage product inventory and work with Operations on coordinating 3rdParty pickups and product delivery including organizing backhauls.
- Cycle counting, recounts, and investigation of shortages.
- Gain understanding and exposure to various commodity proteins markets, pricing, and all aspects of procurement.
- Pricing and margin decisions along with product allocation.
- Work with Accounting, Warehouse, and Inventory Control on vendor and customer returns.
- Build and maintain both vendor relationships and customer relationships.
- Prospecting and continued development of existing business.
Requirements
- College degree in Supply Chain or Food Marketing.
- Superior systems skills including database creation and management. Must demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams software platforms
- Superior oral and written communication skills as well as proven presentation skills
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting, communicating at all levels
- Must be comfortable in a fast-paced environment with the demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple priorities to completion
- Well organized and detail-oriented with outstanding time management skills
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong interest in developing supervisory/management skills.
- Ability and desire to work in a refrigerated/frozen warehouse.
- Must be willing to work rotating shifts during training, and non-standard (2nd or 3rd) shift upon completion of training.
Skills Required
- College degree in Supply Chain or Food Marketing
- Proficiency with database creation and management
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams
- Superior oral and written communication skills
- Proven presentation skills
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting and communicate at all levels
- Ability to manage multiple priorities to completion in a fast-paced environment
- Strong organizational, detail-management, and time-management skills
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Interest in developing supervisory and management skills
- Ability and desire to work in a refrigerated or frozen warehouse
- Willingness to work rotating shifts during training and second- or third-shift schedules afterward
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The Company
What We Do
Quaker Valley Foods, Inc. is a Philadelphia-based wholesale food distributor specializing in the distribution of beef, pork, chicken, turkey, seafood, deli products, and ethnic items. Serving the Mid-Atlantic region from Connecticut to Virginia, the company provides next-day delivery to wholesalers, independent retail and wholesale food stores, restaurants, and larger supermarket groups, handling over 3,000 fresh and frozen perishable and non-perishable items.
