Top Entry Level Food Jobs in Buffalo, NY

Founding Retail BDR for Toast90: build prospect lists and perform high-volume outreach (80+ activities/day) to convenience stores, grocery and bottle shops; qualify leads, schedule meetings for Account Executives, use Salesforce to track activity, partner on sales strategy, and position the Toast Retail solution against competitors.

Leads hotel group sales strategy and commercial performance across rooms, catering, and events. Develops pricing and revenue strategies using performance data, demand forecasts, and competitive insights. Builds relationships with Hilton Worldwide Sales, convention bureaus, travel partners, and key clients. Facilitates business reviews, supports site visits and pre-convention meetings, and contributes to annual and long-range commercial planning.

Leads day-to-day IT operations across a distributed, multi-office organization supporting approximately 850 employees. Oversees help desk services, infrastructure, systems administration, security, backups, vendors, budgets, technology projects, and AI governance. Manages two technicians and an MSP while administering Microsoft 365, Azure, Windows environments, networking, endpoints, and business applications. Partners with leadership on IT strategy, risk management, technology rollouts, documentation, and employee training.

Oversee US and Canadian sales tax matters, including tax calculations, remittance procedures, filings, reporting, and compliance. Advise internal teams, account teams, external stakeholders, and key accounts; support tax forms such as 1099-K and Canadian information returns; monitor legislative developments; liaise with tax authorities and advisors; and improve finance and tax processes.

Build and operate secure cloud infrastructure for employee-built applications and AI agents. Responsibilities include hosting, deployment environments, databases, networking, access controls, integrations, Git workflows, infrastructure automation, monitoring, backups, incident response, documentation, and hands-on support. The role partners with platform engineering, security, data, and business teams to create repeatable deployment paths and accessible self-service workflows while balancing security, reliability, simplicity, and cost.

Build and operate Nash’s go-to-market engineering system, including AI agents, CRM infrastructure, account data layers, paid and ABM automation, integrations, deliverability, observability, and production controls. The role owns Salesforce and connected systems, develops in Python or TypeScript, applies LLMs and MCP-style integrations, and measures success through pipeline, revenue, agent reliability, and data quality.

Leads consumer, category, market, and growth insights across infant formula and new ventures. Supports qualitative and quantitative research, opportunity sizing, commercialization, pricing, go-to-market strategy, KPI dashboards, syndicated data analysis, campaign evaluation, launch measurement, and executive reporting. Partners cross-functionally with Innovation, Marketing, Sales, Product Development, Finance, research agencies, and data providers to translate intelligence into actionable growth recommendations.

Oversee 90–125 franchised Wingstop restaurants across Colorado and Utah, serving as the primary franchisee liaison. Own portfolio P&L, operational performance, revenue growth, profitability, brand standards, and KPI results. Conduct restaurant visits, coach partners, analyze dashboards, lead quarterly business reviews, develop strategic improvement plans, and communicate best practices. Travel up to 75%, including nights, weekends, and holidays, while managing competing priorities and supporting long-term franchise success.

Leads the Albertsons West Region customer relationship and drives profitable growth for The Magnum Ice Cream Company. Responsibilities include joint business planning, sales and profit management, assortment and merchandising strategy, promotions, digital commerce, retail execution, negotiation, customer relationship development, and cross-functional collaboration. The role translates customer and shopper insights into growth strategies while managing investments, category performance, and business objectives across Albertsons divisions and corporate teams.

Own a portfolio of client accounts, driving retention, renewals, product adoption, and value realization. Build stakeholder relationships, conduct business reviews, monitor account health, identify risks, support renewals, guide onboarding and training, and relay client feedback. Collaborate with Sales, Support, Product, and Revenue Operations while maintaining Salesforce records and reporting on retention and adoption metrics.