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Sensient Technologies Corporation

Buyer

Turlock, CA · On-site

$100 - $125/hr

As Buyer at Sensient Agricultural Ingredients, you will play a key role in keeping operations ... vegetables such as parsley, celery, and spinach. These ingredients are used in many of today ...

Sensient Technologies Corporation

$100 - $125/hr

As Buyer at Sensient Agricultural Ingredients, you will play a key role in keeping operations ... vegetables such as parsley, celery, and spinach. These ingredients are used in many of today ...

FRESH DIRECT, LLC

Produce Buyer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$72K - $85K/yr

The Role The Produce Buyer is responsible for all purchasing activities across all Fruit & Vegetables categories. This includes creating and monitoring purchase orders, tracking inbound orders and ...

FreshDirect

Produce Buyer

Bronx, NY · On-site

$72K - $85K/yr

The Role The Produce Buyer is responsible for all purchasing activities across all Fruit & Vegetables categories. This includes creating and monitoring purchase orders, tracking inbound orders and ...

FreshDirect

Produce Buyer

Bronx, NY · On-site

The Role The Produce Buyer is responsible for all purchasing activities across all Fruit & Vegetables categories. This includes creating and monitoring purchase orders, tracking inbound orders and ...

Mars

SQA Lead - Vegetables & Grains

Creve Coeur, MO · On-site

The Supplier Quality Assurance Lead interacts extensively with the Commercial buying and sourcing ... Assures quality and consistency of raw materials, primarily within the Vegetables & Grains category.

Preserve Life Corp

Farm Manager

Douglasville, GA · On-site

$65K - $80K/yr

Plan and execute full growing cycles for a diverse range of organic vegetables across the 50,000 sq ... Maintain steady, predictable harvest volumes to meet buyer commitments and supply agreements

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How much do vegetable buyer jobs pay per year?

As of Sep 9, 2026, the average yearly pay for vegetable buyer in the United States is $68,384.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $55,000.00 and $79,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What does a vegetable buyer do?

A Vegetable Buyer is responsible for sourcing and purchasing fresh vegetables for retailers, wholesalers, or food manufacturers. They evaluate suppliers, negotiate prices, and ensure that the produce meets quality and safety standards. Their role also involves monitoring market trends, managing inventory levels, and building strong relationships with growers and distributors to ensure a consistent and cost-effective supply of vegetables.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a vegetable buyer?

To thrive as a Vegetable Buyer, you need strong negotiation skills, market knowledge, and experience in supply chain or agricultural sourcing, often supported by a relevant degree or background in food procurement. Familiarity with inventory management systems, procurement software, and quality control standards is typically required. Excellent communication, relationship-building, and analytical thinking help buyers effectively coordinate with suppliers and respond to market changes. These skills ensure a reliable supply of high-quality produce, cost-effective purchasing, and strong vendor relationships for business success.

How does a vegetable buyer typically collaborate with suppliers and internal teams to ensure product quality and availability?

A Vegetable Buyer works closely with suppliers to negotiate prices, set delivery schedules, and monitor the quality of produce, often conducting routine visits or inspections. Internally, they coordinate with inventory management, logistics, and sales teams to forecast demand and ensure the timely availability of fresh vegetables. Effective communication and relationship-building are essential, as the role often requires resolving supply chain challenges quickly to avoid shortages or quality issues. Collaboration is key to maintaining strong supplier partnerships and meeting organizational standards for freshness and cost.

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Infographic showing various Vegetable Buyer job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 87% Full Time, 4% Part Time, and 9% Contract. Highlights an 79% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 18% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $68,384 per year, or $32.9 per hour.

Produce Buyer

Metairie, LA

Kaki Brothers Management LLC
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Job description

Job Summary

As a Produce Buyer your responsibilities will include sourcing and purchasing fruits, vegetables, seeds, grains, etc. Also, Produce Buyers are responsible for setting and adjusting selling prices, managing perishable inventory, and completing inventory and profit reports. Produce buyers may also be responsible for ensuring that our produce is properly handled and stored before it reaches consumers. This might include tasks like checking temperature gauges, monitoring ripeness levels, or making sure that produce isn?t sitting out too long on display shelves.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for finding and negotiating best prices on all products with all suppliers.
  • Analyze and monitor sales records, trends, weather/seasons, and economic conditions to forecast consumer-buying patterns and determine inventory needs.
  • Reviews costs to ensure items purchased are at the lowest cost consistent with considerations of quality, reliability of source, deliveries, and urgency of need.
  • Establish and adjust selling prices by monitoring costs, competitive factors and supply and demand, while also working with sales staff to obtain information about customer specific needs and preferences.
  • Negotiate favorable terms in order to gain maximum advantage for costs and vendor funding opportunities.
  • Manage inventory to ensure fast turns, proper rotation and prevent age/quality issues. May include hands on inspection of product at time of receiving and daily until product ships.
  • Interact as a team with sales, warehousing and distribution and develop strong professional working relationships everyone they interact with, both Ideal team members, suppliers, etc. professional at all times.
  • Develop a strong working relationship with each produce supervisor, produce manager and other operational team members.
  • Visits stores as needed.
  • Follow the store?s policies on purchases and priority of local vendors.
  • Monitor programs and obtain store feedback and to assess overall implementation effectiveness as needed.
  • Plan attractive produce displays with consistent, readable, clear signs.
  • Ensure handling of produce adheres to Company procedures and standards; cull, replenish and rotate produce throughout the day; mark down produce that is not selling to reduce losses.
  • Complete all administrative functions of the job and deadlines on time and in full.
  • Attend store and buyers? meetings to coordinate promotions.
  • Maintain strong follow up and documentation on quality issues to mitigate and/or eliminate potential losses.
  • Must have knowledge of produce specific information such as growing seasons, inflation/ deflation cycles, inventory experience, and knowledge of pricing.
  • Purchase of all repack materials such as labels, plastics, containers, and specialty items.
  • Compile weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly inventory and profit reports.
  • Performs other duties as assigned by management.

Requirement Qualifications

  • Team-player with a positive attitude and comfortable with ambiguity.
  • Works effectively with others, in groups, in cross-functional settings and with diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
  • Displays strong levels of customer service.
  • Possess excellent negotiation, listening, and verbal communication along with excellent writing and computer skills and confidentiality.
  • Manage, track and control several ongoing projects concurrently.
  • Exhibit strong ability to analyze data, make judgments and develop reports
  • Be extremely self-motivated, take initiative and drive results
  • Multi-task and work in fast paced, multiple-priority environment
  • Be highly organized and detail oriented.
  • Ability to be a change agent and not get easily frustrated with external and internal obstacles. Must have the attitude and aptitude to overcome.
  • Be available to respond to calls on urgent matters, including after business hours, on weekends and holidays if necessary.
  • Excellent knowledge of produce; solid understanding of produce varieties handled in a wholesale operation.