The specialist will work closely with the purchasing, quality, culinary and operations team at our NJ facility.

Responsibilities will include:

• Managing the quantity and quality of product coming in

• Developing new processes to improve team efficiency

• Analyzing costing, vendor quality, and product yield data

• Ensuring that product meets all required specification

• Building relationships with suppliers

• Minimizing shrinkage/spoilage of perishable products. Obtaining credit from suppliers where applicable for returned, damaged, or spoiled goods. Coordinating storage of items to be returned to suppliers.

• Participating in periodic inventory counts

• Communication skills – must have good listening skills in addition to excellent verbal and written communication abilities.

• Excellent organizational and analytical skills.

• Capacity to multitask to meet multiple demands and instructions coming from both the production facility and the corporate headquarters.

• Ability to work under pressure with a sense of urgency

• Ability to self-motivate and problem solve in a fast paced setting filled with hard deadlines.

• Strong Excel skills

• Willingness to learn and grow to meet the changing requirements of the job.

• Bachelor’s Degree

Excel, organization, communication, analytics

Full health, dental, and vision insurance, as well as discounts on the Blue Apron box!

At Blue Apron, our mission is to make incredible home cooking accessible to everyone — from the novice cook just getting started to the experienced chef. Each week, we send hundreds of thousands of customers all the pre-measured and perfectly proportioned ingredients they need to prepare delicious and healthy meals at home. We introduce our members to new ingredients, flavors, and cooking techniques with seasonally-inspired recipes that are always delicious, fun and easy to prepare. To support our growth and develop a more sustainable food system, we work directly with family-run farms to grow specialty produce just for us, affordably bringing the freshest ingredients into our customers' kitchens.

Blue Apron is a venture-backed, e-commerce company based in New York City, with fulfillment centers in New Jersey, California and Texas. Launched in 2012, we have just over 200 employees at our SoHo headquarters in New York City and have grown to over 3,000 employees across our national fulfillment centers.