Director of Purchasing & Culinary Supply Chain

Job Details

Location:

Brooklyn, NY 11206
• Type:
Full Time
• Salary: $100,000‑120,000 annually
• Shift: Day
• Category:
Purchasing ‑ Procurement

Green Top Farms is a New York‑based food service company specializing in farm‑fresh meals for enterprise workplace dining and corporate catering. We partner with leading companies to deliver elevated daily dining and hospitality experiences, using seasonal ingredients and thoughtful operations to create consistent, high‑quality service at scale.

Our mission is to build a more sustainable and equitable food system, starting by reconnecting consumers and local farmers. We believe the results of strengthening that connection are better nutrition, tastier food, greater social justice, and reduced environmental impacts. Our menus reflect this attention to bringing nutritious, delicious food to those who need it most.

At Green Top Farms, sourcing is driven by freshness, seasonality, and social and environmental responsibility. We prioritize direct partnerships with regional farmers, ranchers, fishermen, cooperatives, and small‑scale producers, including long‑standing relationships across the Hudson Valley and broader Northeast network, to ensure freshness, traceability, and a more resilient supply chain. With in‑house warehousing and bulk purchasing capabilities, we reduce reliance on intermediaries and maintain flexibility across our programs.

Sustainability is our north star, guiding every purchasing decision.

The Director of Purchasing & Supply Chain is the senior‑most leader of Green Top Farms’ procurement and supply chain function, owning sourcing strategy, financial performance, supplier development, systems, and the leadership of the entire purchasing organization. Where the Purchasing Manager runs the weekly buying, receiving, and picking cycle, the Director sets the strategy, owns the numbers, and builds the team and systems that make the operation scalable, disciplined, and mission‑aligned.

• A strategic procurement leader who also understands culinary production and high‑volume food service operations
• Experienced owning a purchasing or supply chain P&L and driving food cost performance
• Deeply networked in regional and regenerative agriculture, and skilled at building direct producer partnerships and supplier development programs
• Experienced negotiating with farms, cooperatives, and specialty vendors, not just large distributors
• A builder of teams and systems who can develop managers, design scalable processes, and hold standards across purchasing, receiving, and picking
• Highly analytical and systems‑fluent, comfortable owning inventory, purchasing, accounts payable, and reporting platforms
• Grounded in food‑safety and regulatory compliance as non‑negotiable
• Passionate about local, seasonal, regenerative sourcing and short supply chains

• Own Green Top Farms’ sourcing strategy and vision, translating the mission into a resilient, scalable, and cost‑effective supply chain
• Cultivate, expand, and deepen direct partnerships across the Hudson Valley and Northeast producer network; lead supplier development and onboarding aligned with local, regenerative, and B‑Corp principles
• Negotiate strategic contracts, pricing frameworks, and terms with the largest and most critical partners, cooperatives, and distributors
• Anticipate market, commodity, weather, and supply‑chain risk; set diversification, contingency, and continuity strategies to protect service

• Own the purchasing and supply chain P&L; set and manage food cost targets and purchasing budgets across daily service, catering, and events
• Lead variance analysis, forecasting, and cost‑optimization initiatives; frame value as an outcome of quality, freshness, and mission fit rather than lowest price alone
• Partner with Finance leadership on budgeting, month‑end close, reconciliations, purchase timing, and margin performance
• Evaluate and approve major purchasing decisions, vendor commitments, and supply‑chain‑related facility or capital…