Procurement Senior Buyer
About The Position
The Senior Buyer executes high-volume, cross-entity purchasing strategies for the Produce One Family of Companies (POFOC), including Premier Produce One, Carbonella & DeSarbo, Native Maine, and Brophy Brothers. The role combines platform-wide buying volume to create negotiating leverage and cost synergies beyond what individual operating companies could achieve alone. Working closely with Category Managers and the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO), the Senior Buyer uses consolidated volume and market intelligence to reduce landed costs, improve supplier terms, and generate measurable sheltered income in support of platform growth and equity return goals. The position manages supplier relationships across entities, responds to changing market conditions, and helps build and maintain the consolidated infrastructure supporting the platform’s procurement function. Success is measured by cost savings and sheltered income from consolidated buying, supplier relationships and terms, accurate KPI and savings reporting, cross-platform collaboration, and sound, timely market judgment.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in produce buying, procurement, or category management, ideally spanning multiple regions or business units.
- Demonstrated experience negotiating with suppliers at scale and delivering measurable cost savings.
- Strong understanding of produce markets, seasonality, and terminal and regional market dynamics.
- Comfort working with FOB costing, transfer pricing structures, and market benchmark data.
- Ability to operate independently across multiple business units and build trust with OpCo leadership.
- Solid financial acumen, including understanding of margin and cost drivers.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant procurement systems.
- Willingness to travel to supplier, market, and OpCo locations as needed.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Consolidate purchase volume across all four operating companies to negotiate improved supplier costs, terms, and service levels.
- Identify shared vendors and overlapping SKUs across entities, and shift volume to create platform-wide cost advantages.
- Apply the intercompany transfer pricing framework, including FOB cost tiers and Quality of Buy markups, consistently across entities.
- Track and report realized savings and synergies from consolidated buying against platform KPI and benchmark targets.
- Lead negotiations for assigned categories and commodities using platform-wide volume as leverage.
- Build and maintain well-documented supplier relationships that support cost, quality, and supply reliability.
- Evaluate new supply sources and alternative vendors to strengthen the platform’s negotiating position.
- Monitor vendor performance against criteria including fulfillment, quality, food safety, pricing, and service.
- Identify and execute purchasing decisions that convert market and volume advantages into measurable margin and sheltered income.
- Provide accurate FOB cost, transfer pricing, and market benchmark data to support the CPO’s savings and KPI framework.
- Identify and act on buying opportunities created by harvest timing, regional sourcing changes, and transportation costs.
- Maintain knowledge of regional growing seasons and terminal markets, including Hunt’s Point/Chelsea, the Salinas Valley, and Michigan seasonal production.
- Monitor USDA and market benchmark data to validate purchase pricing against current market conditions.
- Anticipate transitions, shortages, weather impacts, and pricing changes, and communicate their implications to the CPO and Procurement Leadership.
- Coordinate with OpCo buying teams to share market intelligence, vendor terms, and sourcing opportunities.
- Follow procurement processes, transfer pricing rules, and reporting standards established by the CPO’s office.
- Support the continued development of PROPCO’s consolidated buying infrastructure, tools, and documentation.
- Serve as a resource and informal mentor to OpCo-level buyers on platform sourcing practices.
- Travel to supplier, market, and OpCo locations as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
