Peet's Coffee & Tea Emeryville , CA 94608
Posted 3 weeks ago
Who we are:
Reporting to the Sr. Director, Coffee Purchasing, the Green Coffee Buyer performs a critical role in sourcing, selecting, evaluating quality, and developing and maintaining systems and protocols for analyzing green purchasing forecasts, inventories, and optimum blend formulations. The Green Coffee Buyer works closely with the Green Coffee Manager to determine potential out of stock situations and alleviate them through spot purchase or temporary formula adjustments.
What you will do:
Communicates daily with green coffee suppliers, both import and export communities, to evaluate coffee market conditions, obtain differential price offers, and industry news
Works closely with Sr. Director, Coffee Purchasing to solicits offers from supply chain partners for shipments from origin in quantities required
Participate in daily cupping with the buying team
Records cupping analysis in Cropster
Responsible for any necessary spot purchases to avoid out of stock situations
Supports and supplies coffee communication to business channels, provides demonstrations and training for internal and external customers
Participates in panel tastings for coffee, tea, and other food or beverage as needed
Maintains current green coffee forecast analysis and SR reporting per ESG requirements
Responsible for blend formula management
Works with supply chain finance partner to provide mark to market price projections
Travel to origin as assigned by manager to gain information and insight into coffee supply chain with reporting back to the coffee team
Other duties as assigned by manager
Who you are:
Knowledge and experience in green coffee supply chain activities
Understanding of the GCA coffee contract, pricing mechanisms and terms
Ability to discriminate in taste with the gained ability to approve Peet's Quality types within two years
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Power BI
Experience working with an ERP system
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Peet's Home Office is a Hybrid worksite, which requires any Home Office employees to work onsite (Emeryville, CA) 5 days per week with the exception of any fully-remote role.
At Peet's we hire the best people and are committed to supporting our employees and rewarding them for their work. The target annual base salary range for this position is $87,000-$98,000. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant's qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Peet's offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees, which includes comprehensive health, dental and vision plans; a superior 401(k) plan, various paid time off programs; employee discount/perks; life insurance; disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; and an employee referral bonus program
Peet's Coffee & Tea