Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced Senior Buyer cum Inventory Controller to manage high-volume purchasing and inventory activities across multiple F&B operations.
The ideal candidate must have strong experience within the hotel, hospitality, restaurant, or F&B industry, with proven exposure to large purchasing volumes, multiple suppliers, warehouses, central kitchens, and multi-outlet operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage daily purchasing activities based on operational requirements, stock levels, and consumption trends.
- Handle high-volume procurement for food, beverage, packaging, and operational supplies.
- Source, evaluate, and negotiate with local and international suppliers.
- Review purchase requisitions, quotations, comparison sheets, and purchase orders.
- Monitor supplier pricing, delivery schedules, product quality, and performance.
- Maintain optimum inventory levels including minimum, maximum, reorder, and safety stock levels.
- Monitor fast-moving, slow-moving, aging, and high-value inventory.
- Analyze consumption trends and identify unusual usage, shortages, or excess stock.
- Coordinate stock counts, investigate variances, and reconcile physical stock with ERP records.
- Monitor stock transfers between warehouses, central kitchens, and outlets.
- Minimize wastage, expiry, overstocking, and stockouts.
- Prepare purchasing, inventory, stock variance, and management reports.
- Coordinate closely with Operations, Chefs, Warehouse, Finance, and outlet teams.
- Support and supervise purchasing/inventory team members and ensure compliance with company procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration, or related field.
- Minimum 5–7 years of purchasing/procurement experience with strong inventory control exposure.
- Hotel, Hospitality, Restaurant, Catering, or F&B industry experience is required.
- Proven experience handling large purchasing volumes, multiple outlets and suppliers
- Strong supplier negotiation, sourcing, cost-control, and inventory management skills.
- Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar.
- Strong Microsoft Excel, reporting, and analytical skills.
- UAE/GCC F&B or hospitality experience is highly preferred.
Application Question(s):
- Do you have experience working in the hotel, hospitality, restaurant, catering, or F&B industry?
- Which ERP or inventory management systems have you used?
- Do you have experience in inventory management?
- What is your salary expectation?
Work Location: In person