Prepared Foods Purchasing & Merchandising Specialist

Whole Foods Market; Sarasota (FL); On-site; USD 23,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Whole Benefits

Store discount

Paid time off

Job summary

Whole Foods Market Sarasota is seeking a Team Member in Prepared Foods who will handle purchasing, replenishment, and promotional merchandising, ensuring high standards and friendly service.

You will monitor inventory, assist with displays, and work with Kitchen Manager to cost recipes, while maintaining health, safety, and Weights & Measures compliance. This role emphasizes teamwork and customer focus.

Qualifications

• Experience in buying and merchandising for food products.
• Ability to monitor inventory and manage replenishment.
• Strong customer service and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Purchases and replenishes food for preparation through proper buying procedures.
• Monitors and acts upon open PO reports for both purchases and credits in an accurate and timely manner.
• Controls spoilage and shrink, achieves turn goals, participates in inventory.
• Completes spoilage, sampling, temperature, and sweep worksheets as required.
• Assists with counter service and cooks as scheduled or as necessary.
• Communicates with Kitchen Manager / Chef and Team Leader on ordering needs and issues.
• Maintains positive working relationship with vendors.
• Works with Team Leader or Assistant Team Leader(s) to cost recipes.
• Oversees customer special order procedure.
• Supports leadership in conducting inventories.
• Maintains financial profitability by meeting and exceeding purchasing and sales targets.
• Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
• Provides excellent customer service, addresses needs of customers in a timely and effective manner and models suggestive selling techniques; answers phones and pages promptly and courteously.
• Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product.
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
• Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards.
• Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
• Immediately reports safety hazards and violations.

Skills

Buying/Merchandising

Inventory control

Customer service

Excel

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Outlook

Ordering systems

Job description

Whole Foods Market Sarasota is seeking a Team Member in Prepared Foods who will handle purchasing, replenishment, and promotional merchandising, ensuring high standards and friendly service.

You will monitor inventory, assist with displays, and work with Kitchen Manager to cost recipes, while maintaining health, safety, and Weights & Measures compliance. This role emphasizes teamwork and customer focus.