A professional who directs and coordinates activities of municipal, regional, or state fruit, vegetable, or meat market or exchange. Responsibilities include:

• Negotiates contracts between wholesalers and market authority or rents space to food buyers and sellers.
• Directs through subordinate supervisory personnel collection of fees or monies due market, maintenance and cleaning of buildings and grounds, and enforcement of market sanitation and security rules and regulations.
• Keeps records of current sales prices of food items and total sales volume.
• May endeavor to resolve differences arising between buyers and sellers.
• May prepare market activity reports for management or board.