Job description

At Ritual, we hand-deliver the highest quality, fresh ingredients for healthy recipes tailored to nourish your everyday. We want our clients to eat exactly the way they want without the hassle of planning, shopping, and chopping.

We're looking for a rock star forager with deep ties to the local food community to lead our procurement efforts. Working hand-in-hand with the recipe development and production teams, you’ll drive the inclusion of top-notch local and organic ingredients in Ritual meal kits. You're perfect for the job if you are a super organized, food-obsessed, team player. You get excited when tasked with finding locally made, organic silken tofu and love to introduce people to the spigarello or extra smelly cheese you came across at the farmer’s market.

What You’ll Do:

• Seek out and establish relationships with awesome purveyors
• Oversee the management of food costs, negotiating with vendors and working closely with recipe development team to control recipe costs
• Collaborate on menu development, providing guidance about seasonal availability, opportunities to work with small batch producers, etc.
• Contribute ingredient and vendor related content ideas to our social media team, leveraging your knowledge of industry trends, seasonal highlights, etc.

Who You Are:

• Passionate about local, sustainable food
• Plugged in to the New York community of farmers, makers, and distributors
• Extremely knowledgeable about commercial food purchasing (perhaps with restaurant buying or comparable experience)
• Detail oriented, analytic - comfort with Excel and building reporting systems is a must!
• Outgoing - you’ll need to hit the pavement to build relationships with vendors, smooth things over when there are issues, and mobilize support internally when making changes

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 3+ years experience in a professional kitchen environment
• Hands-on experience with food purchasing directly from producers and small scale distributors

Specs:
This is a PART TIME position - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (9:30-5:30)
Salary, DOE
Must be available to start ASAP
We are based in Brooklyn near the 2, 3, 4, 5, and C trains

Why work at Ritual?
Meal by meal, we’re overhauling our culture’s understanding of what it means to eat and work well. We’re psyched about the ripple effect that transformation has on personal well-being, communities, the food system, and the environment.
We don’t just pay lip-service to a healthy lifestyle, we do our best to embody it. Sane hours are the foundation for lots of perks: health and dental insurance, bike parking, daily family style lunches, continuing education, monthly team activities, and we keep adding more.
You’ll be part of tight knit, hard working team that digs the kind of business that we’re building - profitable, client focused, and mission driven. We know that the our company is as good as its people, so team building and company culture are our top priorities. We’ve also been known to throw a really good BBQ.

Compensation

this position is: salaried

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline