Business Development Sales Representative
The Business Development Sales Representative will sell flatbread products to the following channels grocery, wholesale, foodservice, distributors, by performing the following duties:
Essential Responsibilities
• Responsible for generating opportunities by researching potential accounts, utilizing resources within distributor network, performing weekly live demonstrations of flatbread products
• Maintaining a sales call balance of new business opportunities along with current business retention and penetration
• Responsible for maintaining, developing and growing business within a large and diverse customer base by understanding and managing volume requirements for flatbread products
• Maintaining a consistent touch point cycle within assigned geography along with daily account of activities and progress for every call
• Managing new customer and distribution needs
• Interface with cross-functional employees including Production Operations, Quality Assurance, Sales and Marketing.
• Responsible for representing our flatbread portfolio at Food & Trade Shows and distributor sales and training meetings
• Responsible for traveling to and from client sites
• Other duties as assigned.
Reporting: Reports directly to the Sales Manager.
Requirements
• Excellent planning and organization skills, leadership, problem solving and decision making skills.
• Ability to communicate in English orally and in writing with vendors, customers and co-workers.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in MS Office, Word, Excel and Outlook Knowledge
• Strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal, leadership and organizational skills.
• Sales personality that demonstrates patience and persistence for the sales process.
• Ability to manage a large geographical area may be required
• Can sell concepts as well as solutions