Large-scale candy, snack, and beverage distributor with logistics-first operations
Vistar is a public division of Performance Food Group operating a 1,000+ person distribution network across candy, snacks, beverages, and office coffee service. The hiring profile is heavily weighted toward logistics and operations roles (99 of 122 active positions) with junior-level emphasis, reflecting a company scaling warehouse and delivery capacity rather than digital transformation. Tech stack mirrors this operational reality: legacy enterprise systems (SAP, AS/400, HighJump WMS) paired with recent Microsoft and Salesforce adoption, signaling incremental modernization of a traditionally logistics-driven business.
Notable leadership hires: Inventory Lead, Warehouse Lead, Department Lead
Vistar distributes single-serve snacks, candy, beverages, and coffee to office, retail, hospitality, campus, theatre, and corrections channels. Operating as a division of Performance Food Group, the company maintains over 3,000 associates and serves as one of North America's largest specialty distributors in its category. Core operational challenges cluster around inventory accuracy, delivery routing efficiency, and compliance (GMP, DOT, SOX), with ongoing projects targeting billing platform enhancements, customer segmentation, and performance management systems. The tech footprint—SAP, HighJump, Snowflake, Power BI, Salesforce—reflects a mature B2B supply-chain operation managing complex multi-channel logistics.
Vistar is a large candy, snack, and beverage distributor serving office, retail, hospitality, campus, theatre, and corrections channels. A division of Performance Food Group, it operates with over 3,000 associates across North America.
Enterprise: SAP, AS/400, HighJump WMS. Analytics: Snowflake, Power BI, SQL, Power Query, DAX. CRM: Salesforce, Pardot. Office tools: Microsoft Office, Excel. Also uses CMMS for maintenance management and Xata.
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