Operations Manager - vendor management (Buffalo, NY)

Ironwood Rowan Foods Group is a Buffalo food manufacturer supplying grocers and food-service customers. We are hiring an Operations Manager to take on vendor management. Food safety is non-negotiable and we train for it. What you will do • Track performance measures for ingredient orders and act on them. • Plan daily and weekly work and keep it moving when things change. • Manage vendors, contracts and budgets. • Manage a team of supervisors and coordinators. • Find and fix the small process problems that cost hours every week. What we are looking for • Comfort with numbers, schedules and reports. • Good judgement under pressure. • Four or more years in operations, with some people-management. Nice to have • Experience with cold storage. • Lean or continuous-improvement training. Working arrangement • Full-time, on a regular day shift. • On site in Buffalo. • We will tell you what to expect at each step of the hiring process.