Who are we?

Buyers Edge Platform stands at the forefront of revolutionizing the foodservice industry through technology, purchasing power and partnerships. We are dedicated to empowering stakeholders across the entire foodservice ecosystem (operators, distributors, manufacturers) with efficiency and unprecedented visibility. With a diverse portfolio of over a dozen brands, our mission is clear: to reduce costs, streamline the foodservice supply chain, and propel the industry from manual to automated.

Today, we are one of the largest players in foodservice, with over 200K operator locations across North America and over $50 billion of aggregated spend volume. Our commitment to foodservice excellence is proven in four distinct areas of value: Digital Procurement Network, Fresh Solutions, Supply Chain Management, and Software. Buyers Edge Platform is not just a provider - we are a strategic partner on the journey towards a more efficient, connected, and automated future for the foodservice industry.

This position is remotely, or hybrid based out of our Lake Worth, FL; Waltham, MA; or Chicago, IL offices with ability to work EST business hours. Anticipated travel up to 25-30% of the time dependent on need. We are unable to offer work sponsorship for this role.

As an M&A Business Development Associate with our high growth, tech orientated company, you will make an exciting impact on the critical aspect of our already successful growth strategy, whereby M&A has played a critical role. You come with an entrepreneurial mindset in this role to actively engage with our management team on sourcing deals, facilitating discussions through proactively making cold calls, independently build key relationships and manage acquisition targets for our M&A Team.

Your impact:

• Manage and grow our M&A prospects by identifying companies that meet our acquisition criteria
• Nurture acquisition prospects by proactively initiating, building and maintaining relationships
• Conduct market research to evaluate potential acquisition prospects and obtain high-level financial and operational information about target companies
• Initiate outbound prospecting calls and emails to connect with target companies
• Develop and build relationships with industry leaders
• Follow-up on outbound and inbound prospect activities in a timely manner

About you:

• Bachelor's degree in business or relevant experience is required
• 3-5 years of high-volume M&A experience
• Ability to initiate a high volume of calls/conversations per day with the ability to work outside of regular business hours as needed.
• High ability to work independently and professionally to connect the dots when speaking to prospects and business leaders.
• Positive, driven personality with high ability to communicate in a professional, confident, and convincing manner.
• Preferred: Experience in corporate development/strategy/M&A, sales, software/technology.

What's in this for you?

Amazing coverages to start. Medical, dental, and vision coverages are just the beginning! We also offer ancillary plans, such as flexible spending accounts for both health and dependent care, critical illness, accident, and voluntary life as well as company paid life and long-term-disability plans! On top of this, we also offer a 401(k) plan with company match.

Invest in your success.We will provide you with a thorough training and development program; and offer competitive compensation.

Live well = Work well. Relax with our Personal Responsibility Paid Time Off policy where you don't have to accrue time off in order to take it! We also offer half-day Summer Fridays!