Assistant buyer vs grain origination specialist

Differences between assistant buyer and grain origination specialist duties and responsibilities

Assistant buyer example responsibilities.

• Manage open-to-buy to ensure continual flow of merchandise to stores and warehouses with careful attention to advertise events and promotions.
• Inspect, grade and appraise agricultural commodities, durable goods, and merchandise for sale.
• Train employees on POS system to keep accurate sales, inventory levels, and employee hours.
• Collaborate with DMM and GMM to complete accurate financial strategy to be sign off by CEO.
• Partner with advertising to execute POS and brand driven events through mailers, email blasts and marketing.
• Analyze product trends and historical data at classification level; review IMU, AUR and penetration variances.
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Grain origination specialist example responsibilities.

• Manage margins for purchase commodities base on export market and barge freight.
• Analyze and support development and execution of underwriting, automation and operational strategies to efficiently and effectively manage the portfolio.
• Prioritize and expedite timely shipment estimates, including working with the advance dollar process; finalize commodities as appropriate.
• Collaborate with team members to fully understand financial conditions and to provide financial solutions to expedite loan origination and funding.
• Establish overall infrastructure for off-shore development including communication plan, QA, testing and packaging, functional and detail design standards
• Review documentation to determine if RESPA disclosure triggers are enabled.