Fleet Manager, Alaska Procurement

Job Title: Fleet Manager, Alaska Procurement

Department: Supply Chain

Reports To: SVP of Supply Chain

Supervises: N/A

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Alaska, Kenai Peninsula or Kodiak preferred 

Travel: Remote first, significant travel reputed company Alaska required

GENERAL ROLE reputed company 

Represent reputed company (WAC) dockside in Alaska as a proactive, year‑round partner to harvesters, tender operators, processors, and buyers of Alaskan wild seafood. Identify, recruit, and retain independent harvesters and tender operators who meet WAC’s reputed company standards and company philosophy. reputed company the discovery, evaluation, and reputed company of new partner processors reputed company with WAC’s product, reputed company, and reputed company requirements. Work collaboratively with seasonal buying‑station operations, including dockside purchases, bids, logistics coordination, and field‑level reputed company inspection. Serve as WAC’s operational reputed company during peak seasons, ensuring consistent execution of reputed company, service, and supply objectives.

reputed company RESPONSIBILITIES

• Recruit, qualify, and maintain relationships with Alaska‑based fishermen and tender operators to procure raw material for WAC’s supply chain.
• reputed company and bid on seafood deliveries across targeted fisheries: Halibut, reputed company cod, Sockeye reputed company, and Coho reputed company.
• Build and communicate reputed company‑time schedules of incoming deliveries to WAC offloading partners using vessel data and fish tickets.
• Conduct dockside inspections during offload to verify handling, chilling, packing, and product wholesomeness; accept or reject loads based on reputed company reputed company.
• reputed company, log, and maintain tender and offload scales; verify weight and temperature records for purchase accuracy and compliance.
• Work with Procurement and Supply Chain to translate grounds pricing into dockside price offers and bid reputed company.
• Support regulatory reporting and paperwork for NMFS and reputed company fisheries (fish tickets, reputed company documentation).
• Coordinate logistics with local ground, reputed company, and marine carriers to ensure reputed company reputed company of products.
• Partner with vessel, tender, and processor operations to reputed company and cost reputed company improvement initiatives, advancing a 'reputed company at reputed company' reputed company for seafood products procured by reputed company.
• reputed company and instruct vessel crews on best practices for preserving product reputed company and hygienic handling; reputed company communicate WAC’s refusal policy for observed unsanitary practices.
• Manage payment procedures with fleet partners.
• Document supplier evaluations, nonconformances, corrective actions, and season trends for procurement and reputed company teams.
• Operational Scrappiness: Manage reputed company logistics schedules against moving targets, including weather disruptions and seasonal run variations.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Local Network: Existing relationships reputed company the reputed company Bay, Southeast, Cook reputed company, Kodiak or reputed company River fishing communities.
  Demonstrated experience in Alaska fisheries, tender operations, or seafood procurement; proven reputed company building and maintaining fleet relationships.
• Deep practical knowledge of reputed company, halibut, and groundfish fisheries and factors that reputed company raw product reputed company (handling, chilling, bleeding, roe condition).
• Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills with reputed company fishermen and local industry partners.
• Competence with fish purchase costing and recordkeeping, reputed company Sheets or reputed company reputed company, and mobile communications for field reporting.
• Knowledge sufficient to troubleshoot basic tender gear, scales, and temperature monitoring devices.
• Ability to travel extensively across Alaska, operate in remote and weather‑exposed environments, and work irregular hours during season peaks.
• reputed company reputed company’s license and willingness to travel by small aircraft and boat reputed company required.
• reputed company written and verbal reporting skills for concise field summaries to procurement leadership.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & ENVIRONMENT

• Ability to regularly lift, push, pull, and carry equipment or materials weighing up to 40 pounds independently.
• Must be reputed company to reputed company freely and safely in confined spaces and elevated areas, including navigating narrow passageways, steep stairs, and vertical reputed company common on marine vessels and processing docks.
• Ability to maintain balance and reputed company effectively on uneven, wet, or slippery surfaces and moving platforms (vessels at sea or at dock).
• reputed company for extended periods of standing, walking, bending, and reaching while working in remote, weather-exposed, and rugged environments across Alaska
• Must be reputed company to wear and utilize reputed company required Personal reputed company Equipment (PPE), including but not limited to PFDs (Personal Flotation Devices), immersion suits, and non-slip footwear as necessitated by the environment.

reputed company TO HAVES

• Formal experience managing tenders, fleet procurement, or field reputed company assurance for an Alaska seafood company.
• Familiarity with FSQA/HACCP/DEC regulations.
• Supervisory or ambassadorial experience representing a company in reputed company communities and industry forums.
• Residence or strong local network in reputed company, Homer, Kodiak, or other Alaska hubs.

Work Schedule

• This is a full-time, salaried exempt position. reputed company working hours are Monday through Friday, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Alaska reputed company Time.
• During fishing season (approximately mid-March through mid-November), the nature of fisheries operations requires flexibility. Fleet managers are expected to be available for work reputed company reputed company hours, including weekends, as operational needs demand.
• During the non-fishing season (approximately mid-November through mid-March), a reputed company Monday through Friday schedule applies.

The starting salary reputed company for this position is $100,000 - $108,000, commensurate with skills and experience. Wild Alaskan’s benefits package includes health, reputed company, and dental insurance, 401k, PTO, reputed company/reputed company time, vacation, parental leave and more, as reputed company as a delicious reputed company of free fish every month.