Quirch Foods

Intern, Purchasing

Quirch Foods  •  Coral Gables, FL (Onsite)  •  6 days ago
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Job Description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Essential duties and Responsibilities:
• On the field training with retail merchandisers throughout the supply chain
• Analyze processes, recommend improvements, and work with the team to implement changes
• Generate accurate purchase orders / variance purchase orders and distribute them within standard time frames
• Manage replenishment stocks within the supply chain
• Participate with purchasing associates in negotiating prices, terms and rebates with suppliers.
Internship Learning Outcome:
• Applied your knowledge, skills, experience to a work environment
• Acquired new learning through challenging and meaningful activities
• Advocated for your own learning in alignment with internship goals
• Built and maintained positive professional relationships
• Developed self-understanding, self-discipline, maturity and confidence
• Developed strong networking/mentoring relationships

Qualifications and Requirements:
• Experience with business process analysis and documentation
• Great organizational skills, attention to detail and follow thru
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Microsoft Office experience; intermediate in Excel
• Bilingual candidates are desired but not required (English and Spanish)

Works with the leadership team and appropriate team members to encourage and support organizational sustainability efforts. Supports waste reduction/optimization, water and energy conservation. Practice overall organizational sustainability goals and environmental preferred purchasing practices.
Quirch Foods is a diverse family of companies on a quest to seek and source environmentally conscious and sustainable food products to our customers. Works with the leadership team and appropriate team members to encourage and support organizational sustainability efforts.
Quirch Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. All applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.

Quirch Foods

About Quirch Foods

Quirch Foods is a food distribution company servicing ethnic and national grocers as well as foodservice distribution customers across the United States, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Quirch operates approximately 500 refrigerated trucks and over 2.3 million square feet of combined distribution space through 24 facilities in the continental US and Puerto Rico. Quirch is the exclusive distributor of High River Angus®, McKinneys Beef®, Panamei Seafood®, Diamon Reef® Seafood, Kikiriquirch®, Jackson Farms®, Mambo Foods®, and is a licensed distributor of Certified Angus Beef® and Chiquita Brands® frozen Tropicals and Fruits. Quirch operates through a family of well recognized companies. For more information visit quirchfoods.com.

To learn more about our brands, visit: highriverangus.com, panamei.com, diamondreefseafood.com, and mambofoods.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or call (800) 458-5252.

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Coral Gables, Florida
Year Founded
1967
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