URM Stores, Inc. is looking for a talented Category Administrative Assistant to join our ever-growing team. As a Category Administrative Assistant, you will be responsible for bringing suppliers, producers and products identified by the Category Management team into all URM Stores tools and systems, such that those suppliers, producers, and products are operationalized for our category management, purchasing and operations teams.

The ideal candidate should have excellent oral and written communication skills and be able to organize their work using tools, like MS Excel and office equipment. If you have previous experience and have familiarity within the grocery industry, we’d like to meet you. Ultimately, a successful candidate should ensure the efficient and smooth day-to-day operation of our team. Working at URM Stores, Inc we help you discover a career that is challenging, supportive, and inspiring! If this sounds like your ideal work environment, we invite you to apply for this on-site position today!

Your Day-to-Day:

• Help keep the department/team on track.
• Maintain vendor/broker contacts.
• Correct all group/subgroup issues with all items.
• Create new item and discontinued item lists each month and responsible for creating a process to close the loop each month.
• Work with our procurement department to make sure all items are setup and marked accordingly each month.
• Run and send several different reports each month.
• Be the vendor point of contact for all new item forms and images and make sure the vendors are filling them out correctly.
• Take notes during our monthly ad groups meetings.
• Communicate with the warehouse ahead of time to confirm slot space for specific categories.
• Monitor price changes and promotional changes from vendors.
• Make minor schematic updates to keep them up to date (training will be provided).
• Performs high-level, administrative work, including frequent clerical work organizing, scheduling, coordinating, researching, compiling, exchanging, and analyzing information.
• Provides analytical support to Director and our Category Managers.
• Answer and direct phone calls; organize and schedule appointments.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of previous office experience using, phone, computer & customer service & multi-tasking skills.
• Data driven – curious about what insights can be derived from numbers.
• Highly adaptable – you thrive in a fast-paced, high-change and dynamic work environment.
• Familiarity and/or willingness to learn about grocery industry products.
• Can work well with others, with good interpersonal abilities.
• Efficient in Excel, Word, Outlook, and other basic computer programs.
• Organized and detail-oriented with an ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines consistently.
• Experience with SAP Business Objects BI reporting, space planning software and AS400 preferred.
• Comfortable communicating with different departments and stakeholders.
• Able and willing to work 100% on-site.

Why Join Our Team?

It's exciting to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. For the last 100 years, URM has been committed to bringing customer focus to our Member stores. Employees at URM are proud to be a part of the number one food distributor in the Inland Northwest.

We seek only those who stand out above the rest—progressive thinkers who push our company forward in a positive way. We work in a supportive team environment and in addition to our amazing culture, our employees enjoy many perks, below are a few of the highlights:

• Our Target Salary Range for this position is $20 an hour DOE.
• Medical/Dental/Vision/RX Insurance Benefits - URM pays 100% of the premium for the employee and over 90% for your dependents!
• 401k Retirement Plan with an amazing Company match, and you will be vested from the first Company contribution!
• Life Insurance for you and your family.
• Short-and Long-Term Disability.
• Cancer Insurance.
• Vacation starts after just six months!
• Six Paid Holidays and three Paid Personal Float Holidays.
• Paid Sick Days.
• A Paid Volunteer Service Day! Get paid to volunteer at your favorite local charity/non-profit!
• Fun employee events, such as Employee Family Night at the Spokane Indian Game, March Madness Company Brackets and Holiday Breaks with great prizes!
• We also offer an Amazing Employee Discount Program at our Company-owned Grocery Stores!!!!

Our Company:

We are proud to be a part of the number one food distributor in the Inland Northwest. Since 1921 URM has been a retailer-owned business. URM’s core business is the purchasing, warehousing, and delivery of merchandise inventory to its Member-Owners. The shareholders of URM are all retail grocers who provide groceries to their local communities. URM operates on a cooperative basis, which means that all its net earnings on business done with or for its member-owners through its Patronage Departments are allocated and paid to its Member-Owners in the form of patronage dividends. Over the years, sales volume has grown to over $1 billion and employment to over 2,900 employees at URM and its subsidiaries—Rosauers Supermarkets and Peirone Produce.

URM Stores, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of Race, Religion, Color, National Origin, Citizenship, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Ancestry, Veteran Status, Genetic Information, or any other classification protected by state or federal law. We are also committed to providing a work environment that is free of all forms of discrimination, regarding recruiting, hiring, training, promotions, compensation, and all other conditions of employment. The selected candidate must be able to successfully complete a pre-employment background check, and drug test, as URM is a drug free workplace (including marijuana).