AI maturity
building
Head of AI/ML
Head of Data Science & AI
Buyers Edge Platform · Foodservice Technology / Procurement Analytics · 📍 Lake Worth, FL
Buyers Edge Platform is hiring a senior AI/DS leader to centralize and scale data science and machine learning capabilities across its portfolio of foodservice procurement and analytics businesses.
Reports to
CTO
Company stage
scale-up
Source
linkedin
Key responsibilities
- Define and execute the enterprise-wide AI and data science strategy across Buyers Edge Platform's portfolio
- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing data science and machine learning team
- Translate proprietary foodservice transaction and procurement data into AI-powered products and insights
- Partner with product, engineering, and commercial teams to embed AI into platform offerings
- Establish ML infrastructure, model governance, and data science best practices
Requirements
- Proven leadership experience managing data science or ML teams
- Hands-on expertise in machine learning, statistical modeling, and AI product deployment
- Ability to work with large, complex transactional datasets
- Strong cross-functional communication and executive stakeholder management skills
Signals
- ⚠ No salary range disclosed — limits candidate quality and signals compensation opacity
- ⚠ Minimal job description detail available — scope and team size unclear
- ⚠ No previous postings from this employer — difficult to assess culture or hiring patterns
- ⚠ Lake Worth, FL is a secondary tech market — may limit local senior AI talent pool
- ✓ Buyers Edge Platform is PE-backed with significant proprietary data assets — strong AI raw material
- ✓ Newly created role suggests greenfield mandate with potential to define the function
- ✓ Foodservice data at scale is a differentiated and defensible AI opportunity
- ✓ Platform aggregator model implies cross-portfolio AI leverage and product monetization upside