Organizational Overview
About Fresh is a Boston area nonprofit on a mission to improve health outcomes in low-income communities by getting healthy food to the households that need it most. Our programs are built to be integrated into community healthcare systems and scaled to the 15 million food-insecure households in the United States.
Programs
- Fresh Truck mobile markets bring affordable, healthy food closer to low-income communities
- Fresh Connect is a software platform that enables health care providers to prescribe food as medicine and analyze health-related impacts
Job Description
Market Managers are the face of Fresh Truck in our communities, they make the shopping experience for our customers delightful and unique. This role requires a diverse skill set blending food purveyor, truck driver, and customer service representative. We’re looking for someone with an unrelenting passion for community building and food.
What you’ll do:
- Drive a full-size, 39ft school bus
- Manage daily mobile market operations from bus loading/unloading, inventory management, restocking, to cleaning
- Create an inviting shopping experience through engaging customer service
- Manage market support staff of youth employees and volunteers
- Support other Fresh Truck initiatives such as community outreach, customer surveys, and
operations process improvement
Who you are
- An excellent driver, accustomed to driving in an urban environment; strong preference for individuals with experience driving box trucks and large vehicles
- You’re willing to get your hands dirty, comfortable with some heavy lifting and will stop at nothing to make things happen
- Embrace working within diverse community settings and with a strong sense of social justice; being multilingual (Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Cantonese, Mandarin) is huge a plus
Requirements
- Driver’s license with clean driving record for the past 3 years
- Ability to lift ~50lb on a regular basis
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive, experience-based salary: $40,000-$45,000 annually
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance, full-time only
- Free groceries every shift
- Work day in and day out to make Boston a healthier city
To apply email your resume and a short note telling us why you’re excited about the job with the subject line “Market Manager candidate” to jobs@aboutfresh.org.