Buyer
- Location
- Bogotá
- Posted
- 1H AGO
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About the role
Are you ready to build the future of Latin America? 🚀
At Rappi, we build the SuperApp that changes the lives of millions of people every day. We are a team driven by speed, execution, and real results.
This is where things happen. If you are excited by solving real-scale problems, learning at record speed, and seeing the impact of your ideas in a matter of days, this is your place.
Are you passionate about transforming data into strategic decisions? 💼
The challenge
Rappi is growing quickly and needs exceptional talent. We’re looking for a Buyer who can transform complex challenges into impactful opportunities for millions of users in LatAm. You’ll be responsible for all transfers between CEDIS and Darkstore, reconciling discrepancies, and creating value throughout the logistics process.
Your challenges
- Perform assigned tasks with increasing quality
- Learn team processes and tools
- Collaborate with team members to deliver results
- Document processes and learnings
- Participate in team meetings and rituals
- DAILY
- Generate and record transfer orders with sufficient lead time to avoid missing the delivery date
- Control tower: track each unloading closeout and ensure store issues are reported and managed
- Follow up on delivery rejections and ensure the store's records match the operator's records
- Review OTIF by store and order, open transfers > 48 h, and store stockouts when there is stock at the CEDI.
- Adjust transfer frequency by store
- Review DOI, safety stock, and reorder point parameters, and update the store matrix.
You will be a great fit
- Experience: 1–2+ years in similar roles
- Education: University degree
- Previous experience at tech startups, e-commerce companies, or marketplaces (preferred)
- Experience working in agile squads and remote-first environments (preferred)
Tech profile
What you need to master
- Experience: 2+ years in sourcing, inventory planning, purchasing, or distribution in retail or grocery
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets
- Intermediate SQL: extracting sales, inventory, and orders by store to prioritize transfers
- Replenishment model: safety stock, DOI, reorder point, and demand forecasting
- Metrics: availability %, stockouts, OTIF, fill rate, shrinkage %, and inventory days by store
- SAP MM: stock transfer orders (STO), movements, and in-transit closeout
- Python preferred
- Generative AI to prioritize issues, draft claims, and automate follow-up
What makes you different
- Ownership and Accountability
- Results Orientation
- Collaboration and Teamwork
- Adaptability and Learning Agility
- Growth Mindset
- Resilience and Perseverance
- Customer / User Centricity
- Sense of urgency
- Prioritization under pressure when several stores request the same thing
- Follow-up and closure: nothing remains in transit without being reconciled
- Internal customer orientation (dark stores) and networking with buyers and the operator
- Negotiating issues with the operator based on evidence
- Adaptability: moves from buyer to planner and control tower
We believe our talent deserves the best tools to make an impact with purpose.
Colombia 🇨🇴
🌸 Boost Your Impact
- Health insurance policy
- Maternity and paternity benefit
- Digital health platform (psychology and nutrition)
📚 Continuous Learning
- Online learning platform
- Language learning
- Academic partnerships with educational institutions
- Certifications in tech and digital marketing
🚴 Rappi Rhythm
- Premium access to the Rappi app
- Day off in your birthday month
- Recharge days after major projects
At Rappi, diversity makes us stronger
We believe diverse and inclusive teams build the best products, and we actively seek people of all genders, ages, backgrounds, religions, and sexual orientations. If you want to build the future of Latin America, your place is here.
Will you join the team? At Rappi, the limit is the one you set for yourself. If you are excited about learning in motion and building solutions that scale to millions, we want to meet you.
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