Director of Meat & Seafood Sourcing - Meat

Overview

The Director of Meat & Seafood Sourcing leads the supplier strategy, sourcing execution, and partnership model for Sprouts’ meat and seafood business. This role is accountable for building the supplier network, cost structure, quality standards, service levels, and innovation pipeline needed to support Sprouts’ fresh, differentiated, quality-driven, and customer-led positioning. A key part of this role is identifying, cultivating, and scaling relationships with small ranchers, farmers, fisheries, and regional producers who can bring differentiated products and authentic sourcing stories to Sprouts. The Director partners closely with Merchandising, Supply Chain, Replenishment, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Operations, Finance, and Marketing to ensure Sprouts has the right supplier relationships, product specifications, supply continuity, inbound quality, yield expectations, and cost discipline to deliver strong sales, margin, freshness, availability, and customer trust. This leader must be able to navigate commodity markets, negotiate effectively, hold suppliers accountable, and bring forward differentiated product opportunities that make Sprouts a more compelling destination for meat and seafood.

Overview of Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the long-term sourcing strategy for Meat & Seafood, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives, category priorities, and Sprouts' differentiated brand position.
• Build the Meat sourcing function from the ground up, defining the structure, capabilities, and future resource needs required to scale and support the business.
• Establish and oversee a strategic supplier portfolio that supports quality, innovation, cost competitiveness, supply continuity, risk mitigation, and long-term business growth.
• Partner with senior merchandising and enterprise leaders to align sourcing priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and support strategic business decisions.
• Build and strengthen relationships with suppliers, including regional producers, ranchers, farmers, fisheries, and strategic partners that enhance product differentiation and customer value.
• Lead supplier negotiations and sourcing initiatives to optimize costs, improve margin, secure funding opportunities, and strengthen supplier performance.
• Leverage commodity market insights, supplier intelligence, and business analytics to identify risks, opportunities, and sourcing strategies that drive business results.
• Establish supplier performance management processes, scorecards, and governance routines that promote accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Partner with Quality, Food Safety, Supply Chain, Replenishment, and Distribution teams to ensure compliance, product integrity, service performance, and consistent product quality.
• Develop contingency plans and alternative sourcing strategies to mitigate business risks related to supply disruption, commodity volatility, capacity constraints, and quality concerns.
• Partner with Merchandising to identify and commercialize sourcing opportunities that support assortment innovation, differentiation, responsible sourcing practices, and Sprouts’ customer promise.
• Communicate sourcing strategies, market trends, business risks, and recommendations to senior leadership while leading cross-functional resolution of supplier, quality, and supply issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 8+ years of progressive sourcing, procurement, buying, category management, supply chain, or fresh food leadership experience; meat and/or seafood sourcing experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of meat and seafood categories, protein commodities, supplier capabilities, product specifications, quality standards, food safety expectations, inbound quality, yield, and seasonal supply dynamics.
• Demonstrated strength in strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, cost management, contract terms, vendor accountability, funding, and service-level improvement.
• Ability to identify and develop relationships with small ranchers, farmers, fisheries, and regional producers while helping them scale appropriately to support Sprouts’ quality, service, and compliance expectations.
• Ability to build supplier strategies that enable differentiated assortments, innovation pipelines, local and regional opportunities, improved quality, compelling partner stories, and competitive cost structures.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to connect commodity markets, supplier performance, cost modeling, item economics, service levels, inbound quality results, yield performance, and business results into clear sourcing actions.
• Experience managing supplier risk, alternate sources of supply, quality escalations, recalls, compliance issues, and fast-moving supply disruptions.
• Ability to influence & align across merchandising, supply chain, replenishment, planning, quality control, quality assurance, food safety, finance, marketing, operations, distribution, and field leadership.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex supplier, commodity, quality, yield, and cost dynamics into clear recommendations for leadership.
• Leadership style that is direct, accountable, collaborative, and action-oriented, with the ability to raise issues early and drive resolution.
• Ability to build strong external partnerships while maintaining clear expectations, scorecards, and accountability for supplier performance.

Benefits

In addition to a rewarding career, Sprouts offers a comprehensive program to help support you and your family. These programs include:

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
• Vacation accrual plan
• Opportunities for career growth
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!

Eligibility requirements may apply for the following benefits:

• Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
• Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Company paid short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
• Paid holidays

Get Paid Every Day!

Sprouts Farmers Market offers DailyPay - if you’re hired as an eligible employee, you’ll be able to transfer the money you’ve already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free.  We offer DailyPay so you don’t have to wait for payday to access the money you’ve already worked for. With DailyPay, you can see how much you’ve made every day and you can transfer your money any time before payday.

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Why Sprouts

Grow with us!

If you have a passion for inspiring people and a flair for fresh food, consider applying for a job at Sprouts! With a focus on customer service, our neighborhood grocery stores offer high-quality, farm fresh produce, natural meats, plenty of scoop-your-own bulk goods and much more in a fun, friendly, old-fashioned farmer’s market setting.  Come grow your career in healthy living with a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and teams that pride themselves on empowering others along their journey.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Sprouts’ management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

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