Buyer - Warm Veg

We’re looking for an experienced produce professional to manage the buying and selling of warm vegetables — tomatoes, peppers, squash, and related items. This role involves contracting with growers, working through consolidation facilities, coordinating freight, and selling to distributors and end users. You’ll be responsible for bidding on customer business, managing daily market pricing, and maintaining strong margins. Buying and selling produce. Buying and selling to our distributor network. 

This role will be hybrid (4 days a week) based in our Temecula, CA, Salinas, CA, or Suwanee, GA office. We are unable to offer work sponsorship for this role. 

Who are we?

Fresh Alliance, a Buyers Edge Platform brand, provides procurement services to distributors and foodservice operators with over 50+ years of experience in the fresh category. They procure products directly from 100+ premium grower/shippers and fresh processors, to deliver the best in quality and price. With a commitment to freshness, streamlined logistics, and k-12 services, Fresh Alliance redefines the industry standard, delivering a comprehensive solution and leverages high performance contracts supported by a wide variety of clients. Fresh Alliance is an integral part of the Fresh Division as it directly works with both Fresh Concepts and Produce Alliance providing a direct sourcing and contracting resources to their end user customers.  

Your impact:

• Provide day-to-day pricing for the team. Provide insights on markets and trends.
• Manage a book of business and grow sales
• Maintain organized and accurate procurement records, ensuring all documentation is current and compliant.
• Monitor order statuses, delivery schedules, and coordinate with vendors to ensure timely receipt of goods and services.
• Communicate effectively with suppliers to confirm shipping details and resolve delivery or invoice issues.
• Collaborate internally with the contract and pricing team to ensure invoice accuracy.

Ensure adherence to internal procurement procedures and applicable regulation

About you:

• Provide day-to-day pricing for the team. Provide insights on markets and trends.
• Manage a book of business and grow sales
• Maintain organized and accurate procurement records, ensuring all documentation is current and compliant.
• Monitor order statuses, delivery schedules, and coordinate with vendors to ensure timely receipt of goods and services.
• Communicate effectively with suppliers to confirm shipping details and resolve delivery or invoice issues.
• Collaborate internally with the contract and pricing team to ensure invoice accuracy.
• High school diploma or equivalent required; associate or bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management, or related field preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the produce industry as a warm veg buyer
• Experience with procurement software is an asset.
• Strong with Microsoft Excel and Word
• Work experience with consolidation and logistics

Don’t meet every requirement mentioned here? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Buyers Edge Platform and our subsidiary brands, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this position or others with us!

What's in this for you? 

Amazing coverages to start. Medical, dental, and vision coverages are just the beginning! We also offer ancillary plans, such as flexible spending accounts for both health and dependent care, critical illness, accident, and voluntary life as well as company paid life and long-term-disability plans! On top of this, we also offer a 401(k) plan with company match.

Invest in your success. We will provide you with a thorough training and development program; and offer competitive compensation.

Live well = Work well. Relax with our Personal Responsibility Paid Time Off policy where you don’t have to accrue time off in order to take it! 

We welcome all.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.