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Sales – Mainstream Food (Cypress, CA)
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Gain market knowledge and awareness of procedures, new technologies, and techniques to develop a strong personal
sales approach.
• Maintain awareness/compile and communicate competitive information on equipment and devices preferred by the marketplace.
• Focus on sales growth in areas of profitable growth and customer satisfaction.
• Responsible for assuring that all appropriate information on quality, delivery, and technical requests is relayed to the customer.
• Researches and responds to delivery, quality and document issues as required to maintain high customer rating.
• Must demonstrate daily skills in the following areas: Problem solving, time management, organization, effective communication,
and multi-tasking.
• Builds and maintains customer relationships and develops strong understanding of programs, demand, and opportunities.
• Provides appropriate level of communication to management and field sales regarding growth opportunities and areas
of improvement with respective accounts.
• Established new accounts within business qualification criteria.
• May perform other duties as assigned.Job Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• 2-3 years of related sales experience in food and beverage industry for mainstream market (Costco, Wegmans, Kroger,
Walmart, Trader Joe’s, and others) is a plus
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills, including persuasive and expositive skills
• Ability to multitask and portray aggressive demeanor
• Experiences calling on chain accounts, brokers, and distributors are preferred
• Ability to effectively make formal and informal product presentations to individuals as well as to large groups, including executives
• The candidate must be able to apply mathematical concepts to compute rates, discounts, percentages, and draw and interpret
bar graphs