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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• 3 weeks PTO
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.

About the Job

The PO Coordinator manages all product and freight vendor confirmations and matches to our Dawn issued purchase orders. This position will manage the communication and maintenance needed to update material, quantity, pricing, delivery date changes and freight cost discrepancies within SAP to our purchase orders. This position is essential to keep our material and freights costs correct therefore, our pricing and margin to our customers are correct. This role will manage confirmations for the following Distribution Locations: Ontario, CA, Union City, CA, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Phoenix.

This is a remote position working PST hours. The successful candidate will live in either the MST or PST time zone.

What Does It Take to be a Purchase Order Coordinator at Dawn Foods?

Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job:

• High School diploma required.
• Some college courses preferred in Business or Accounting
• 1 year experience in business or administration role

Preferred skills/experience:

• Experience with Outlook email and PDF
• SAP experience preferred or similar software.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Strong tactical execution of processes with attention to detail.
• Support and drive data accuracy
• Proven experience of ability to manage multiple priorities, ability to work with time-sensitive deadlines.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and written – both internal and external communication.
• Ability to proactively anticipate issues and address appropriately.
• Ability to manage heavy workload and set priorities.
• Strong problem solving and resolution skills.

What You'll Do as a Purchase Order Coodinator

• Managing confirmation email inbox for all Distribution Center's responsible.
• Match vendor Purchase Order (PO) confirmation to Dawn issued PO to determine if discrepancies exist at header level and detailed line-item level.
• Manage all discrepancies from vendor PO confirmation to Dawn issued PO on pricing, quantity, delivery date, and freight. Once discrepancies are resolved, maintain confirmation in SAP along with any other data maintenance.
• Communicate with several Dawn team members and vendor to resolve discrepancies.
• Contact vendor to obtain vendor confirmation if missing and outside of designated timeframe.
• Utilize report (ZPTP21) to identify and address POs that have not been confirmed or missing freight conditions.
• Update Purchasing Info Records when dictated by vendor confirmation discrepancy.
• Vendor POs only – reviewing daily inbound appointment schedule (SuperSAAS) to confirm all Pos have an appointment; if missing, follow up with vendor/trucking/TMS company to obtain date. Make updates in SAP to correct new delivery date.
• Administrative tasks as needed.

Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Normal setting for this job is: office setting or work from home office

About Our Benefits

Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits.

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About Dawn Foods

Dawn Foods provides high-quality bakery solutions to customers around the globe. With unmatched manufacturing and distribution capabilities, we bring together the knowledge, commitment, and innovation our customers deserve.

Compensation: $38,840 - $58,270/yearly salary non-exempt

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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.

Requisition ID: 34375