Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa offers a luxury mountain experience through exceptional lodging, dining, an 18-hole championship golf course, Equestrian stables, a full-service Spa, and activities for all ages. Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa is a place where families and guests of any size can make mountain memories year after year.

We are managed by the Southeast's premiere hospitality management company, Coral Hospitality.

COME AND JOIN OUR AMAZING TEAM!!!

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We currently have an opening for a Food & Beverage Purchasing Agent!

Summary: Under the direct supervision of the F&B Director, this position ensures that proper safe guards are in effect for the security of the Food and Beverage store room assets. Also ensures that price and product availability issues are communicated as needed to the Executive Chef and Food & Beverage Director of Brasstown Valley Resort by performing the following duties.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions:

• Calculates figures for food & beverage inventory, order and cost with accuracy.
• Has working knowledge and uses existing computer programs effectively to post invoices, update items and costs and perform daily and period end food count.
• Maintains proper par levels for all food, beverage and delegated controllable items.
• Checks invoice on goods received against shipment to ensure quantity, quality, weights and purchase specifications are as ordered.
• Adheres to first in/out inventory rotation for all store room products.
• Suggests item use-up list with Executive Chef and managers to keep inventory at lowest level possible.
• Completes period end inventories according to food and beverage and accounting standard operating procedures.
• Communicates with kitchen and dining room management and vendors to ensure timing of deliveries satisfies advanced food production needs.
• Has a working knowledge of all purchasing specifications to ensure ordering and receiving correct product.
• Notifies appropriate department managers of changes in market prices, current high cost and good value items.
• Codes invoices for payment by Accounts Payable and maintain Food and Beverage Department checkbook for expenses.
• Adheres to Coral Hospitality purchasing contract obligations.
• Costs menus, recipes and buffets as directed.
• Ensures proper safeguards are in effect for the security of the food and beverage store room assets.
• Ensures price and product availability issues are communicated as needed to the Food & Beverage Director, Executive Chef and Catering.
• Receives and stores all items according to the standard.
• Completes all requisitions in a timely manner.
• Notifies immediate supervisor of any items that are low or out of stick.
• Creates bids for vendor purchasing.
• Maintains a health code compliant area.
• Ensures store room facility is clean and organized
• Manages returns of goods.
• Acts as the shipping/receiving agent and assists departments when needed.

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Customer Service –Adheres to the Coral Hospitality Basics of Service standards. Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; Responds promptly to customer needs; Solicits customer feedback to improve service; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meets commitments.
• Interpersonal Skills – Maintains confidentiality; Keeps emotions under control.
• Teamwork – Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.
• Ethics – Treats people with respect.
• Professionalism – Reacts well under pressure; Treats others with respect; Follows through on commitments.
• Quality – Monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Quantity - Works quickly.
• Safety – Observes safety and security procedures.
• Planning/Organizing - Uses time efficiently.
• Adaptability – Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time.
• Dependability - Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals.
• Initiative – Volunteers readily.

Education and/or Experience: Two-year college certificate; or two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.