Corporate Purchasing Opportunities
Guaranteeing product quality and value. Publix is renowned for its customer service and its bright, clean stores. But the quality of the products sold in our stores is equally important to our customers. That's why Publix spends so much time evaluating thousands of new products each year. We want to find the very best ones and price them to provide value for our customers and our shareholders.
Our Duties
Our Buyers, Category Managers, and Business Development Directors not only meet with hundreds of suppliers, evaluate their many products and determine which should be purchased, they also: - establish specifications for products
- monitor the inventory levels in our warehouses
- negotiate the purchase price for each product and set the retail price
- set the product mix for our stores and maintain shelf and case merchandising plans
- maintain optional products that our stores can purchase to meet unique customer needs
- develop store-brand items
- select products to be featured in our many different advertisements
- develop training manuals to ensure proper handling of fresh products, and
- develop store department procedural guides.
Our Contributions
With up to 50,000 products in each store, these kinds of decisions have enormous impact on our customers and on our bottom line. In 2004, more than 3,600 of those products were new purchases for Publix. Our Corporate Purchasing departments include: - a Fresh Products team responsible for Deli, Meat, Seafood, Produce, Floral and Fresh Bakery products
- a Grocery/Non-Foods team responsible for dry groceries including direct store delivered, dairy and frozen foods and non-foods such as health and beauty care, baby, laundry detergent, paper products, pet foods and seasonal products, and
- a Logistics team, which makes sure the products that have been purchased arrive on schedule, as ordered, and that returns are handled efficiently and effectively. This team also monitors warehouse inventories to make sure new orders don't require more space than is available.
Other members of Corporate Purchasing: - help inspect the quality of products that arrive at our warehouses, particularly perishables
- teach store associates how to properly handle and display products, and
- work with our various computer systems that support all of the department's communication with vendors, warehouses, manufacturing plants, and stores.
Our Positions
Positions in Corporate Purchasing include the following.
- Category Analyst
- Dairy / FF and GM Merchandiser
- Logistics Analyst
- Buyers
- Category Managers
- Business Development Directors
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- Quality Specialist
- Retail Coordinator
- Retail Improvement Specialist
- Technical Coordinator
- Technical Specialist
- A wide range of clerk positions
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We usually fill openings in Corporate Purchasing from within our company, but there are occasional employment opportunities for external job candidates. All candidates, however, must be experts in their field, effective coaches, and passionate about their work.
How To Apply
Visit the Publix Job Center to see the list of openings and to apply for those that interest you. You can apply using any computer that has internet access.
There are computers at our Employment Offices in Lakeland and Atlanta for individuals who do not have personal access to a computer.
Publix Employment Office
141 North Wabash Avenue
Lakeland, FL 33815
map: directions
Hours:
Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. |
Publix Employment Office
445 Hurricane Trail
Dacula, GA 30019
map: directions
Hours:
Monday-Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 pm
Friday 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. |
Our Support Jobline at 1-866-654-4287, available 24 hours a day, has a recording that lists clerical, technical and professional openings in corporate, distribution and manufacturing.
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