**Company Description** At Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers® we serve only the best tasting and most craveable chicken finger meals. It’s our ONE LOVE®. Our Crew make it happen, our Culture makes it unique and the Community makes it all worthwhile. Every talented Crewmember in our Restaurant Support Office (RSO) is important to our success and a value to our rapidly growing Company. We all work with a sense of purpose and focus on our chicken finger meals, Customers, Crew, Communities and Company Culture. We are constantly striving to Raise The Bar. The future for Raising Cane’s is growth focused and we’re on the path to being one of the top 10 restaurant companies in the United States. **Your Role at Raising Cane’s:** The Purchasing Analyst works closely with the direct procurement team which is responsible for food and packaging procurement and is a key contributor to provide reporting, forecasting, pricing compliance, and other valuable insights to supply chain leadership teams. This role is responsible for utilizing existing applications to bring visibility to the performance of suppliers and supply chain partners. **Job Description** **Procurement support:** + Supply and Demand Planning (Forecasting) + Maintains forecasting tool(s) comparing actuals to the forecast + Supports demand planning and forecasting functions by maintaining and communicating forecasted demand for procurement managers and vendor partners + Monitors inventory management systems for key items, depletion, and transition timing for new/promo items and advising procurement managers + Develops new tools and dashboards to provide best available information to the team + Reporting and Analytics + Creates and maintains periodic reporting for procurement and supply chain (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.) linking multiple data sets into useful reports designed to support supply chain functions + Develops ad-hoc reporting to support on-demand requests for supply chain and other Raising Cane’s departments + Maintains a daily record of commodity price changes and develop analysis to assist purchasing managers’ decisions and corroborate vendor recommendations + Pricing Maintenance and Compliance + Updates pricing within supply chain software ensuring accurate and timely price changes ensuring compliance across system + Analyzes pricing from current and prospective vendors to assist purchasing managers + Assists with the drafting of communications to restaurant and DCs + Supports management of select direct spend vendors **Services Support:** + Follows up on urgent service issues daily + Monitors and follows up on non-urgent requests including equipment exchange, billing questions, service level adjustments + Audits invoices to determine trends and find discrepancies + Maintains service channel reporting and metric reporting **Company Growth Support:** + Enhances personal performance by continuously developing skills in Microsoft applications, attending industry events, visiting suppliers and partners, and testing and supporting the implementation of new software applications + Provides operational support as needed during times of severe weather and crisis recovery + Supports ad hoc requests within the Supply Chain team + Provides key customer service assistance responding to operator requests. + Assists the supply chain team with projects to help achieve company goals **Qualifications** + Bachelor’s degree in an applicable field or broad restaurant operations - this is an entry level position that is intended to grow and develop the individual within Raising Cane’s + Able to make decisions with less than complete information to ensure projects are completed on time and meet target deadlines + Highly analytical with technical ability to easily extract data, build reports, and interpret data + Experience building PowerPoint presentations that will be used to communicate pertinent information to senior leadership + Able to conduct analytics that balance costs, timelines, and practical considerations to make the best decisions + Detail-oriented, organized, and able to manage multiple priorities that may be constantly changing + Self-driven, flexible, and highly energetic with strong written and verbal communication skills + Able to work effectively and efficiently both independently and collaboratively + Must maintain confidential information + Microsoft proficient: Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word + Able to work in a high-pace environment which may require responding to issues after hours and on the weekends + Able to travel up to 5% + Able to work full time out of the Dallas Restaurant Support Office located in Plano, TX **Additional Information** All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Terms of Use (http://www.raisingcanes.com/terms-of-use/) Privacy Policy Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.raisingcanes.com/candidate-privacy-notice/)