About the Role
The Junior Buyer supports the sourcing of direct food and beverage-related goods and supplier management across North American Soho House locations. This role involves purchasing system management, vendor setup, invoice management, cost control, spend analytics, contract review, and policy governance. Additionally, it requires supporting local kitchens with product and recipe management and ensuring purchasing system data is accurate.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a point of contact for operational teams by responding to product, supplier, and procurement-related inquiries.
- Maintain Purchasing System and ensure supplier and product database always up to date and optimised.
- Proactively monitor orders to identify and engage the business regarding those that may be problematic.
- Provide administrative support and inputs for stock and margin reporting.
- Provide ad-hoc reporting as and when requested.
- Efficiently managing the workflow to minimise invoice queues at any given time.
- Support the Procurement and Accounts Payable with relevant ad-hoc requests.
- Work closely with Ops, Chefs, Finance and Procurement to optimise supplier performance management.
- Cleansing and enrichment of supplier and spend data.
- Verify that invoices, payment terms and payment methods comply with agreed terms.
- Ensure database cost prices and purchase codes are accurate.
- Liaise with the Finance department to provide timely adjustments on the systems (Adaco and Sage), after the site food and beverage rec is sent out.
- Develop dashboards for our suppliers, and proactively seek actionable insight.
- Continuous improvements to systems and processes to ensure best practice, optimum effectiveness and efficiency.
- Continuously monitor and review the market and relevant commodities to stay informed with the latest commercial trends and supplier movements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Hospitality Management, Finance, or a related field preferred.
- 1-3 years of experience in procurement, purchasing, or supply chain management within Food and Beverage.
- Experience working with Purchasing or ERP platforms/tools is a plus (Adaco, Oracle, Birchstreet, etc.).
- Strong Microsoft Excel expertise.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Outstanding stakeholder relationship and engagement including Director level.
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Purchasing system management
- Vendor setup
- Invoice management
- Cost control
- Spend analytics
- Contract review
- Process and policy governance
- Product management
- Recipe management
- Adaco
- Sage
- Reporting
- Data analysis
- Market monitoring
- Commodity review
- Stakeholder management
Location
- North America
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1-3 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $70,000—$70,000 USD
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Retirement fund with a 2% match
- Paid Time Off
- Sick days
- Vacation days
- Career Development
- Soho Impact
- Learning & Development
- Cookhouse & House Tonic
- Team Events
- Team Meal
About the Company
- Soho House offers competitive compensation packages that feature global benefits and perks.
- Soho House can progress your career domestically or internationally as well as managerially or technically.
- Soho Impact: Empowering the Soho House Community to make positive change, through mentoring, apprenticeship, local outreach and sustainability.
Equal Opportunity
- In accordance with New York law, the salary range for this role if filled within New York is listed below. The range for the position in other geographies may vary based on market differences. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.
