Food Sourcing Manager

Food Sourcing Manager – Your Role

The Food Sourcing Manager leads food sourcing efforts across Wyoming, focusing primarily on the Food Rescue Program and overseeing the Retail Rescue Coordinator. Food Rescue provides a vital stream of no‑cost food for our Hunger Relief Partners and neighbors, accounting for 57% of all food distributed in Wyoming. The Manager also owns all aspects of non‑retail food donations.

The secondary focus is leading local food purchasing efforts and collaborating with internal teams to manage our purchased food inventory and assortment, ensuring high‑quality, low‑priced, neighbor‑preferred foods remain in stock. Responsibilities include vendor negotiation, purchase order creation, invoice management, grant management, and building local purchasing relationships across the food system in Wyoming.

All work is coordinated closely with Programs and Operations, the Executive Director, the Denver Sourcing team, and the Food Bank of the Rockies Sourcing Team.

• Coordinate with Food Bank of Wyoming staff, donors, and Hunger Relief Partners to ensure compliance with food safety and donation standards.
• Define food rescue strategies and plans for Food Bank of Wyoming.
• Lead and manage the Retail Rescue Coordinator to achieve departmental goals.
• Analyze program reports to support growth in food donations and build donor partnerships.
• Work with the Director of Food Sourcing and the Retail Rescue Coordinator on program optimization, account management, partner emails, and donor newsletters.
• Steward existing donors to ensure they are engaged, informed, and recognized.
• Meet with donors to review trends, train staff, and identify growth opportunities.
• Prospect, research, and solicit new donor partners.
• Record donor engagements and prospecting efforts in the CRM platform (Bloomerang) and leverage CRM for stewardship and cultivation planning.
• Facilitate the complex relationships between Hunger Relief Partners and retail donors.
• Collaborate with Programs to communicate effectively with Hunger Relief Partners.
• Record and communicate partner agency interactions in the Food Bank of Wyoming partner database.
• Conduct donor and agency visits and trainings to enhance relationships, educate about the Food Rescue Program, resolve issues, and improve performance.
• Maintain a web‑based donation reporting system (Meal Connect) to ensure accurate and timely reporting by agency partners.
• Ensure yearly Food Rescue Program Agreement compliance by agency partners.

• Collaborate with the Food Bank of the Rockies Sourcing Team on the annual purchasing plan with distinct callouts for local purchasing activity in Wyoming.
• Manage Wyoming purchasing grants, including collaborating with Development and Finance on grant reporting.
• Build, track, and report on purchasing budget and spending.
• Lead communication, negotiation, and coordination with vendors.
• Process vendor invoices for coding, approval, and payment in Concur.
• Collaborate with Operations on purchase order and item card creation and coordinate purchased load deliveries and pickups.
• Define Wyoming’s item assortment and collaborate with Operations on inventory management.
• Lead Food Bank of Wyoming’s engagement with local agriculture, including vendor and non‑retail donor cultivation with farmers, food hubs, ranchers, and processors.
• Collaborate with Food Bank of the Rockies Sourcing and Food Bank of Wyoming Receiving Teams to ensure product specifications are met and all regulatory requirements are satisfied.
• Handle confidential information with discretion and care, ensuring privacy and respect for employees, volunteers, partners, and donors.

• High school diploma or equivalent required; bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent work experience.
• At least 2 years of supervisory experience, including coaching and performance management.
• Experience developing strategies and plans rooted in data analysis.
• Experience managing sizable spending and budgets.
• Experience using collaborative tools for file storage, sharing, meeting scheduling, and virtual collaboration.
• Valid driver’s license.
• 3–5 years of prior experience in a retail…